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1  I have tried hard for you, but all to no purpose.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  This was a hard hit at Mr. Grimwig, who was a bachelor.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  'You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
4  He answered with some hesitation, because he was confused by Mr. Grimwig's looking so hard at him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  'The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  I would not alarm you if I could avoid it,' rejoined Rose; 'but indeed I have tried very hard, and cannot help this.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  'Why, you don't mean to say, you'd be hard upon me to-night, Bill,' said the girl, laying her hand upon his shoulder.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  But her teeth were tight set, and she clenched the mug so hard that it was as much as I could do to get it back again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  'Yes; he's my boy,' replied Sikes, looking hard at Oliver, and putting his hand abstractedly into the pocket where the pistol was.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
13  He applied himself, with redoubled assiduity, to the instructions of the white-headed old gentleman, and laboured so hard that his quick progress surprised even himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple process of picking oakum, Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle, and was then hurried away to a large ward; where, on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
16  No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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