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1  'Ah, to be sure, so he will,' repeated Charley, rubbing his hands.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  'A pleasant night, sir, but cool for the time of year,' said Fagin, rubbing his hands.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  The Jew rubbed his hands with a chuckle, but glanced uneasily at the box, notwithstanding.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  The Jew rubbed his hands; and, sitting down at the table, affected to laugh at the pleasantry of his friend.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  'That's two doubles and the rub,' said Mr. Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  When his assumed name had been repeated several times, Noah rubbed his eyes, and, giving a heavy yawn, looked sleepily about him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  He washed himself, and rubbed his clothes; there were spots that would not be removed, but he cut the pieces out, and burnt them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  The old man rubbed his hands gleefully together, as he corroborated the Dodger's reasoning in these terms; and chuckled with delight at his pupil's proficiency.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, any stains, all come out at one rub with the infallible and invaluable composition.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  'At your service, ma'am,' said Mr. Bumble, who had been stopping outside to rub his shoes clean, and to shake the snow off his coat; and who now made his appearance, bearing the cocked hat in one hand and a bundle in the other.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Noah, whose top waistcoat-button might have been somewhere on a level with the crown of Oliver's head, rubbed his eyes with the inside of his wrists while this commiseration was bestowed upon him, and performed some affecting tears and sniffs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  A Turk turns his face, after washing it well, to the East, when he says his prayers; these good people, after giving their faces such a rub against the World as to take the smiles off, turn with no less regularity, to the darkest side of Heaven.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI