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His bloated body and shrunken legs--their deformity enhanced a hundredfold by the fantastic dress--the glassy eyes, contrasting fearfully with the thick white paint with which the face was besmeared; the grotesquely-ornamented head, trembling with paralysis, and the long skinny hands,
rubbed
with white chalk--all gave him a hideous and unnatural appearance, of which no description could convey an adequate idea, and which, to this day, I shudder to think of.
Tom sat up in bed, and
rubbed
his eyes to dispel the illusion.
And the old man
rubbed
his hands, and leered as if in delight at having found another point of view in which to place his favourite subject.
Rather, perhaps; rather, eh?'The little old man put his head more on one side, and
rubbed
his hands with unspeakable glee.
Here the little woman
rubbed
her hands, and looked steadily over Mr. Bob Sawyer's head, at the wall behind him.
Mrs. Raddle tossed her head, bit her lips,
rubbed
her hands harder, and looked at the wall more steadily than ever.
Serjeant Buzfuz
rubbed
his eyes very hard with a large white handkerchief, and gave an appealing look towards the jury, while the judge was visibly affected, and several of the beholders tried to cough down their emotion.
Mr. Pickwick carefully
rubbed
the last page on the blotting-paper, shut up the book, wiped his pen on the bottom of the inside of his coat tail, and opened the drawer of the inkstand to put it carefully away.
The little man
rubbed
his hands with affected cheerfulness as he said this, but glancing at Mr. Pickwick's countenance, could not forbear at the same time casting a desponding look towards Sam Weller.
'Try an in'ard application, sir,' said Sam, as the red-nosed gentleman
rubbed
his head with a rueful visage.
My uncle woke,
rubbed
his eyes, and jumped up in astonishment.
After this, he stirred the fire; after that, he
rubbed
his hands and looked at Sam.'Oh, my young friend,' said Mr. Stiggins, breaking the silence, in a very low voice, 'here's a sorrowful affliction!'Sam nodded very slightly.
Mr. Stiggins, encouraged by this sound, which he understood to betoken remorse or repentance, looked about him,
rubbed
his hands, wept, smiled, wept again, and then, walking softly across the room to a well-remembered shelf in one corner, took down a tumbler, and with great deliberation put four lumps of sugar in it.
Here, in the twinkling of an eye, he divested himself of his coat, put on a threadbare garment, which he took out of a desk, hung up his hat, pulled forth a few sheets of cartridge and blotting-paper in alternate layers, and, sticking a pen behind his ear,
rubbed
his hands with an air of great satisfaction.
He chuckled to himself and
rubbed
his long, nervous hands together.
Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then
rubbed
it twice vigorously across and down the prisoner's face.
He seemed quite enthusiastic and
rubbed
his hands together in the most genial fashion.
"And then," said Aramis, pinching his ear to make it red, as he
rubbed
his hands to make them white, "and then I made a certain RONDEAU upon it last year, which I showed to Monsieur Voiture, and that great man paid me a thousand compliments."
He immediately made a new point in advance,
rubbed
his horse down with some heath and leaves of trees, and placed himself across the road, about two hundred paces from the camp.
Hans
rubbed
your wounds with some ointment or other of which the Icelanders keep the secret, and they have healed marvellously.
He was gay and full of spirits; he
rubbed
his hands, he studied his attitudes.
He
rubbed
his eyes, and then turned to me thunderstruck with some unexpected discovery.
Sir Henry
rubbed
his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.
"Yes, we should have a full day to-day," he remarked, and he
rubbed
his hands with the joy of action.
Taking a small, rough stone, he wiped it carefully, and with a beating heart, holding his breath, he gently
rubbed
the match.
Arrived at the forest, Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert
rubbed
smooth on a rock.
Ayrton undressed and
rubbed
himself with grease, so as to suffer less from the temperature of the water, which was still cold.
Holmes
rubbed
his hands, and his eyes glistened.
Laska, a setter bitch, ran out too, almost throwing Kuzma off his feet, and whined and
rubbed
herself against Levin's knees, jumping up and wishing but not daring to put her front paws on his chest.
He noticed this,
rubbed
his forehead, and sat down in her room.
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