All 8 Uses of
dispute
in
Oliver Twist
- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- 'Think so?' said the undertaker in a tone which half admitted and half disputed the probability of the event.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1) *
- If he had hesitated for one instant to punish Oliver most severely, it must be quite clear to every experienced reader that he would have been, according to all precedents in disputes of matrimony established, a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man, and various other agreeable characters too numerous for recital within the limits of this chapter.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *
- Oliver started too, though from a very different cause; for he hoped that the dispute might really end in his being taken back.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- At six o'clock next morning, Mr. Bumble: having exchanged his cocked hat for a round one, and encased his person in a blue great-coat with a cape to it: took his place on the outside of the coach, accompanied by the criminals whose settlement was disputed; with whom, in due course of time, he arrived in London.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)
- The third man brought the dispute to a close, most philosophically.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- He seemed to be still walking between Sikes and Crackit, who were angrily disputing—for the very words they said, sounded in his ears; and when he caught his own attention, as it were, by making some violent effort to save himself from falling, he found that he was talking to them.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- As the villain folded his arms tight together, and muttered curses on himself in the impotence of baffled malice, Mr. Brownlow turned to the terrified group beside him, and explained that the Jew, who had been his old accomplice and confidant, had a large reward for keeping Oliver ensnared: of which some part was to be given up, in the event of his being rescued: and that a dispute on this head had led to their visit to the country house for the purpose of identifying him.†
Chpt 51 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
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(2) (dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict