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Nodded in sentence

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The three of them at first just nodded without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up in irritation.
At length, pouring out a glass of wine, the newcomer nodded significantly to his examiner, previously to swallowing the liquor, and said, with something of bitterness in his manner,-"I drink to our better acquaintance, sir; I believe this is the first time we have met, though your attention would seem to say otherwise."
His head nodded, and little by little his chin descended and touched the enemy, who seized it.
He took him aside and talked very earnestly with him in French for a quarter of an hour, gesticulating with his hands, and explaining something, while the Major nodded his old grizzled head from time to time.
He saw me come up, and nodded, but it was too busy a time for words.
His heavy, aching head nodded in spite of himself, but he abruptly brought it up, as soon as he heard the step of one of his chiefs.
Mr. Pickwick nodded assent.
Mr. Pickwick nodded his readiness to humour the infirmities of age, and entered into a general conversation with the other members of the circle.
The old gentleman slightly nodded his head in token of assent, and was proceeding to change the subject, when Mr. Pickwick said--'I beg your pardon, sir, but pray, if I may venture to inquire, who was John Edmunds?''The very thing I was about to ask,' said Mr. Snodgrass eagerly.
The old gentleman nodded; and two ragged boys who had been marshalled to the spot under the direction of the infant Lambert, forthwith commenced climbing up two of the trees.
Sam nodded assent.
Mr. Wardle sullenly nodded assent.
Mr. Pickwick nodded in the affirmative.
The mulberry man nodded significantly.
'Nice men these here, Sir,' whispered Mr. Weller to his master; 'wery nice notion of fun they has, Sir.'Mr. Pickwick nodded assent, and coughed to attract the attention of the young gentlemen behind the partition, who, having now relaxed their minds by a little conversation among themselves, condescended to take some notice of the stranger.
Mr. Dubbley, who was a man of few words, nodded assent.
At the conclusion of this address, Mr. Weller brushed his hat with his right elbow, and nodded benignly to Jinks, who had heard him throughout with unspeakable awe.
'Oh, I know,' said Sam; 'them as hangs up in the linen-drapers' shops, with beggars' petitions and all that 'ere upon 'em?'Mr. Stiggins began a third round of toast, and nodded assent.
Sam nodded an expressive assent.
Sam nodded again.
The fat boy nodded.
Wardle smiled, as every head was bent forward to hear, and filling out the wassail with no stinted hand, nodded a health to Mr. Pickwick, and began as follows--But bless our editorial heart, what a long chapter we have been betrayed into!
Sam Weller nodded assent.
Mr. Bob Sawyer slightly nodded his assent to the proposition, and asked Mr. Benjamin Allen for the mustard.
The little man took another pinch of snuff as he made this communication, and nodded mysteriously to Mr. Pickwick.
The Serjeant nodded his head, and waited for something else.
Mr. Weller nodded approvingly, and Sam resumed.
Then there entered two or three more Serjeants; and among them, one with a fat body and a red face, who nodded in a friendly manner to Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, and said it was a fine morning.
'Who's that red-faced man, who said it was a fine morning, and nodded to our counsel?' whispered Mr. Pickwick.
Those facts and circumstances, gentlemen, you shall hear detailed by me, and proved by the unimpeachable female whom I will place in that box before you.'Here, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz, with a tremendous emphasis on the word 'box,' smote his table with a mighty sound, and glanced at Dodson and Fogg, who nodded admiration of the Serjeant, and indignant defiance of the defendant.
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