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1  Dodger, take off the sausages; and draw a tub near the fire for Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  'Pretty well,' replied the Dodger, producing two pocket-books; one green, and the other red.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  He meant this to be ironical, but it was true besides; for the Dodger and Charley Bates had filed off down the first convenient court they came to.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand, as he had seen the Dodger hold it, and drew the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes, and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  The Dodger and Master Bates, unwilling to attract public attention by running down the open street, had merely retired into the very first doorway round the corner.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Perhaps these were reasons for the old gentleman's giving his assent; but, whether they were or no, he told Oliver he might go, and placed him under the joint guardianship of Charley Bates, and his friend the Dodger.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
9  This, it occurred to Oliver, must be French for going out; for directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Whenever the Dodger or Charley Bates came home at night, empty-handed, he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Under this impression, he secretly resolved to cultivate the good opinion of the old gentleman as quickly as possible; and, if he found the Dodger incorrigible, as he more than half suspected he should, to decline the honour of his farther acquaintance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  These things looked so bad, that Oliver was on the point of declaring his intention of seeking his way back, in the best way he could; when his thoughts were suddenly directed into another channel, by a very mysterious change of behaviour on the part of the Dodger.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
13  The three boys sallied out; the Dodger with his coat-sleeves tucked up, and his hat cocked, as usual; Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets; and Oliver between them, wondering where they were going, and what branch of manufacture he would be instructed in, first.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Oliver thought the old gentleman must be a decided miser to live in such a dirty place, with so many watches; but, thinking that perhaps his fondness for the Dodger and the other boys, cost him a good deal of money, he only cast a deferential look at the Jew, and asked if he might get up.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  At last, the Dodger trod upon his toes, or ran upon his boot accidently, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one moment they took from him, with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff-box, note-case, watch-guard, chain, shirt-pin, pocket-handkerchief, even the spectacle-case.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  He had scarcely washed himself, and made everything tidy, by emptying the basin out of the window, agreeably to the Jew's directions, when the Dodger returned: accompanied by a very sprightly young friend, whom Oliver had seen smoking on the previous night, and who was now formally introduced to him as Charley Bates.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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