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1  It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The next morning, the public were once informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  That same evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Mr. Gamfield growled a fierce imprecation on the donkey generally, but more particularly on his eyes; and, running after him, bestowed a blow on his head, which would inevitably have beaten in any skull but a donkey's.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously: thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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11  Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of Mrs. Mann, who had got behind the beadle's chair, and was shaking her fist at him with a furious countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Mr. Bumble shook his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good; whereunto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him; which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
15  Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
17  It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
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