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A boy born in a workhouse, starved and ill-treated; but always gentle, amiable, and pureminded. Dickens’s novel so called.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.