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" kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck : with the long frayed ends of which, he smeared... "
The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Page 71
by Charles Dickens - 1858 - 438 pages
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The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 1

Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1899 - 318 pages
...stockings, which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves ;—the kind of legs, that in such costume, always look in an unfinished and...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three...
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A Dickens Dictionary: The Characters and Scenes of the Novels and ...

Alexander John Philip - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1909 - 454 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck. Note.—Sikes with his mistress Nancy are the two figures which do most to carry out Dickens' object...
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The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 17

Charles Dickens - 1914 - 428 pages
...and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves ;—the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke. He disclosed, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three...
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The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes

Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - English language - 1913 - 396 pages
...which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such a costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three...
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The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes

Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 pages
...which inclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such a costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke; disclosing, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three...
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Who's who in Dickens: A Complete Dickens Repertory in Dickens' Own Words

Thomas Alexander Fyfe - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1913 - 364 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs with large swelling calves; the kind of legs which, in such costume, always look in...state, without a set of fetters to garnish them." —Oliver Twist. Silverman. George.—A child of poor parents.—" My parents were in a miserable condition...
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Victoria's Year: English Literature and Culture, 1837-1838

Richard L. Stein - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 361 pages
...visible in Cruikshank's illustrations: a three-days' growth of beard, "scowling eyes," a brown hat, a "dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck; with...frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke." Details of this sort belong to the caricatured ruffian, the sort one might find...
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The Imagined World of Charles Dickens

Mildred Newcomb - Imagination in literature - 1989 - 263 pages
...stockings, which enclosed a very bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; the kind of legs, that in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of letters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his...
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Dickens Dictionary (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

Editors of REA, Alex Phillips - Study Aids - 2013 - 484 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck. Note.—Sikes with his mistress Nancy are the two figures which do most to carry out Dickens' object...
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Who's Who in Dickens: A Complete Dickens Repertory in Dickens' Own Words

Characters and characteristics in literature - 2003 - 357 pages
...boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs with large swelling calves; the kind of legs which, in such costume, always look in...state, without a set of fetters to garnish them.” —Oliver Twist. Silver Store.—A small British Colony on an island in the West Indies.—” It had...
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