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1  It's very likely it will be troublesome.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  'More likely on that wery account,' said Duff.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  The object of this new liking was not among his myrmidons.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  'That's very likely,' returned Sikes with a malicious grin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  It's not a likeness of anybody that you or I know, I expect.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  He may kill me for it if he likes, or if he dares, but if I am here I'll give him up.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
7  The man that invented the machine for taking likenesses might have known that would never succeed; it's a deal too honest.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  It was as light as it was likely to be, till night came on again, and the busy morning of half the London population had begun.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  As Oliver was told that he might do what he liked with the old clothes, he gave them to a servant who had been very kind to him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  It contained a reference to some child likely to be the result of this sad connection, which child was born, and accidentally encountered by you, when your suspicions were first awakened by his resemblance to your father.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  Notwithstanding the difference between youth and age, he bore so strong a likeness to the old lady, that Oliver would have had no great difficulty in imagining their relationship, if he had not already spoken of her as his mother.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  That's acause they damped the straw afore they lit it in the chimbley to make 'em come down again,' said Gamfield; 'that's all smoke, and no blaze; vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in making a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III