Sample Sentences forCharles Dickens (editor-reviewed)
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At the age of 12 when his father was in prison for unpaid debts, Charles Dickens worked in a factory where he affixed labels to bottles of boot polish.Charles Dickens = English writer who depicted and criticized social injustice in such stories as Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol
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I've seen several versions of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.
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The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. (source)
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Mom read everything: Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Pearl Buck.† (source)
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I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.† (source)
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She would have much rather read another Charles Dickens book, or Emily Dickinson.† (source)
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Scrooge was the miserly capitalist in A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.† (source)
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He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized.† (source)
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Her goddam hat blows off and he catches it, and then they go upstairs and sit down and start talking about Charles Dickens.† (source)
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In the case of this particular production, Dan wasn't bothered by the local press; what troubled Dan was what Charles Dickens might have thought of Owen Meany.† (source)
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Anyway, he wrote this play called The Christmas Angel, because he didn't want to keep on performing that old Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.† (source)
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Charles the Fifth; Charles Dickens; Prince Charles.† (source)
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I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities.† (source)
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...As Charles Dickens said at the beginning of [A] Tale of Two Cities, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'† (source)
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Now she was roosting comfortably in the stern, nibbling bits of jerky and reciting random lines from Charles Dickens and 50 Tricks to Teach Your Dog.† (source)
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Leaving the earbuds dangling over his shoulders, he checked the book list in his hand, then looked at the shelves again: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, twenty-seven volumes, red leather binding.† (source)
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