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Without a moment's hesitation the youngster, who looks like the Artful Dodger's older brother with a jaunty cap and an appealingly crooked grin, opens the door and welcomes me.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011
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In Mayhew one encounters the real-life equivalents of such Charles Dickens characters as Fagin, the Jewish receiver of stolen goods; Krook, the rag-and-bottle-merchant; Jo, the sickly crossing sweeper; and the Artful Dodger, leader of a band of youthful pickpockets.
Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011
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Without a moment's hesitation the youngster, who looks like the Artful Dodger's older brother with a jaunty cap and an appealingly crooked grin, opens the door and welcomes me.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011
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Without a moment's hesitation the youngster, who looks like the Artful Dodger's older brother with a jaunty cap and an appealingly crooked grin, opens the door and welcomes me.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011
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Without a moment's hesitation the youngster, who looks like the Artful Dodger's older brother with a jaunty cap and an appealingly crooked grin, opens the door and welcomes me.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011
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One of those UKG anthems of 1999/2000 was created by the production duo Artful Dodger and it featured Craig David.
Dart Adams presents UK True Grime: An American Hip Hop Head's Guide To UKG/Grime (2009 Update) Dart Adams 2009
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One of those UKG anthems of 1999/2000 was created by the production duo Artful Dodger and it featured Craig David.
Dart Adams presents UK True Grime: An American Hip Hop Head's Guide to UKG/Grime Dart Adams 2008
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Beside it, the Artful Dodger rose into the maelstrom of radioactive destruction which cascaded across the base the instant the main force field vanished.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The Artful Dodger continued its descent through the rampaging lower clouds, blazing with solar brilliance as it sloughed off whip-like tendrils of electrical energy.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The good ship Artful Dodger slipped back into real space a thousand kilometres above Anagaska.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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from Wikipedia
"Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Dodger is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that respect. He is the leader of the gang of child criminals, trained by the elderly Fagin."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artful_Dodger
March 31, 2015