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1  Yes, I am, Bill,' replied the young lady, disposing of its contents; 'and tired enough of it I am, too.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The girl jumped up, with great alacrity; poured it quickly out, but with her back towards him; and held the vessel to his lips, while he drank off the contents.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  At first, the Jew contented himself with patiently watching his countenance, as if to gain from its expression some clue to the intelligence he brought; but in vain.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  With a hoarse grunt of contempt, Mr. Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remainder of its contents into the ashes: as a preparatory ceremony to filling it again for himself: which he did at once.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Harry Maylie looked as if he could have followed up this short dialogue by one or two remarks that would have staggered the doctor not a little; but he contented himself with saying, 'We shall see,' and pursued the subject no farther.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  After expressing this opinion, Mr. Claypole looked into the porter-pot with an aspect of deep wisdom; and having well shaken its contents, nodded condescendingly to Charlotte, and took a draught, wherewith he appeared greatly refreshed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  Frightened by the menacing gestures of the two men, Oliver hastily swallowed the contents of the glass, and immediately fell into a violent fit of coughing: which delighted Toby Crackit and Barney, and even drew a smile from the surly Mr. Sikes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  He struggled hard, and suffered much, for some time; but, having a contented disposition, and a good purpose, succeeded in the end; and, from being a farmer's drudge, and a carrier's lad, he is now the merriest young grazier in all Northamptonshire.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  He was walking along, thinking how happy and contented he ought to feel; and how much he would give for only one look at poor little Dick, who, starved and beaten, might be weeping bitterly at that very moment; when he was startled by a young woman screaming out very loud.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles displayed to view than two or three heavy bludgeons which stood in a corner, and a 'life-preserver' that hung over the chimney-piece.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  For two or three months, he contented himself with hinting that he feared the air began to disagree with him; then, finding that the place really no longer was, to him, what it had been, he settled his business on his assistant, took a bachelor's cottage outside the village of which his young friend was pastor, and instantaneously recovered.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Having listened at the keyhole, to assure himself that nobody was approaching the chamber, Mr. Bumble, beginning at the bottom, proceeded to make himself acquainted with the contents of the three long drawers: which, being filled with various garments of good fashion and texture, carefully preserved between two layers of old newspapers, speckled with dried lavender: seemed to yield him exceeding satisfaction.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII