Sentence:  By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked <WSD>Dickensian</WSD> urchin... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty and social injustice and other aspects of Victorian England.