How To Use Fagin In A Sentence
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A kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods.
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When, just before dawn, Sikes arrives to drop off some swag, Fagin plies him with a series of hypothetical questions about what he would do to someone who ‘peached’ on him.
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He is a developing actor who should stick to playing the Artful Dodger for now, and leave Fagin to his elders and betters.
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I paid Fagin to trap Oliver into a life of crime.
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Everyone knows Oliver and Fagin, not to mention David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Edwin Drood, Mr. Pickwick and the rest of the troop.
Our Dickens
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In the film Oliver's attempt to get Fagin to pray is overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of Fagin's sense of parting from the young orphan he took in.
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Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets
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Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
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A rain machine sends water sleeting down as two carriages lumber into action and Fagin's lone figure hobbles back along the street.
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Fagin produced some beer, and as the fight appeared to be over, everybody sat down.
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But Fagin sat silently by a dead fire, staring at the flame of a candle on the table beside him.
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Fagin took hold of the Dodger's collar and shook him violently.
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Nec bella fuerunt, Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes.
Walden~ Chapter 08 (historical)
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Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
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I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.
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Without going overboard on the bent-backed, swivel-eyed cackling often brought to the character, his Fagin is believably unscrupulous and self-serving.
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faginus astabat cum scyphus ante dapes. non arces, non uallus erat, somnumque petebat
The Blessings of Peace
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As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
Oliver Twist
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Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
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The little ones can play in Fagin's Den, an area for preschoolers named after the gangmaster of the band of thieves in "Oliver Twist.
Boing Boing
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Peter Sellers, who had wanted to play Fagin, had committed to other projects by the time production began and so Ron Moody, who had played the role on stage, reprised his performance.
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What saves the film, without doubt, is Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Fagin, which is brilliant.
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But Fagin sat silently by a dead fire, staring at the flame of a candle on the table beside him.
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After that we will discuss discontinued criminal of accomplices in the form of organizing offender, executor, fagin and accessory.
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Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
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Although referred to by the witness Police Constable Fagin during the course of her testimony the print out was not produced in evidence before me.
