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1  "That's all right," said he, rubbing his hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
2  He stopped in his looking at me, and slowly rubbed his right hand over his head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
3  "I have only been to the churchyard," said I, from my stool, crying and rubbing myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
4  He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
5  In the outer office Wemmick offered me his congratulations, and incidentally rubbed the side of his nose with a folded piece of tissue-paper that I liked the look of.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
6  Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
7  But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
8  So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX