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1  I thought you didn't want to hear, my dear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  'Well, he is just the size I want,' said Mr. Sikes, ruminating.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  'But come,' said the young gentleman; 'you want grub, and you shall have it.'
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  And will do everything you want, Bill, my dear,' interposed the Jew; 'he can't help himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  'You don't want any beer,' said Nancy, folding her arms, and retaining her seat very composedly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  He mayn't be so much up, as any of the others; but that's not what you want, if he's only to open a door for you.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Never mind how he came there; it's quite enough for my power over him that he was in a robbery; that's all I want.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  There's your tea; take it away to that box, and drink it there, and make haste, for they'll want you to mind the shop.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Oliver coloured, involuntarily, to find that the old thief had been reading his thoughts; but boldly said, Yes, he did want to know.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Your must say it all over again, if it's anything you want me to do,' rejoined Nancy; 'and if it is, you had better wait till to-morrow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  At this, the charity-boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Toby made a show of returning; but ventured, in a low voice, broken for want of breath, to intimate considerable reluctance as he came slowly along.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Now,' said Mr. Brownlow, speaking if possible in a kinder, but at the same time in a much more serious manner, than Oliver had ever known him assume yet, 'I want you to pay great attention, my boy, to what I am going to say.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
16  Now, although it was very natural that the board, of all people in the world, should feel in a great state of virtuous astonishment and horror at the smallest tokens of want of feeling on the part of anybody, they were rather out, in this particular instance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
17  But even if he has been wicked,' pursued Rose, 'think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
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