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1  The dog looked up, and growled.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  'Yes, he does,' growled Mr. Grimwig.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  'Well, I suppose it is,' growled Sikes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  'Swear the man,' growled Mr. Fang, with a very ill grace.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  'He'll eat his head, if he doesn't,' growled Mr. Grimwig.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  A dog growled as he touched the handle of a room-door; and a man's voice demanded who was there.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  'You old women never believe anything but quack-doctors, and lying story-books,' growled Mr. Grimwig.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  The dog growled again; and licking his lips, eyed Oliver as if he were anxious to attach himself to his windpipe without delay.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  The animal came up from the very force of habit; but as Sikes stooped to attach the handkerchief to his throat, he uttered a low growl and started back.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  Bull's-eye wagged his tail in acknowledgment of this unusually endearing form of speech; and, giving vent to another admonitory growl for the benefit of Oliver, led the way onward.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  The hump-backed man stared, as if in excess of amazement and indignation; then, twisting himself, dexterously, from the doctor's grasp, growled forth a volley of horrid oaths, and retired into the house.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  The dog sat at the bedside: now eyeing his master with a wistful look, and now pricking his ears, and uttering a low growl as some noise in the street, or in the lower part of the house, attracted his attention.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
13  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
14  As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate ferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body of the wounded boy across his bended knee; and turned his head, for an instant, to look back at his pursuers.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned in the last chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as therein narrated, Mr. William Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily growled forth an inquiry what time of night it was.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
16  If she betrayed any agitation, when she presented herself to Mr. Sikes, he did not observe it; for merely inquiring if she had brought the money, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, he uttered a growl of satisfaction, and replacing his head upon the pillow, resumed the slumbers which her arrival had interrupted.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
17  The dog no doubt heard; because Mr. Sikes spoke in the very harshest key of a very harsh voice; but, appearing to entertain some unaccountable objection to having his throat cut, he remained where he was, and growled more fiercely than before: at the same time grasping the end of the poker between his teeth, and biting at it like a wild beast.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
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