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  • We can recall Nupkins 'dealing with the schoolboys in exactly the same sapient spirit.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • How should he, Nupkins, meet the eye of old Porkenham at the next quarter – sessions!

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • ‘First,’ said Mr. Pickwick, sending a look through his spectacles, under which even Nupkins quailed, ‘first, I wish to know what I and my friend have been brought here for?’

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • It was evident, or at least it seemed evident then, that Nupkins could not go on much longer making up the law of England to suit himself; that Sir Leicester Dedlock could not go on much longer being kind to his tenants as if they were dogs and cats.

    Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

  • He describes Bounderby and Gradgrind with a degree of grimness and sombre hatred very different from the half affectionate derision which he directed against the old tyrants or humbugs of the earlier nineteenth century -- the pompous Dedlock or the fatuous Nupkins, the grotesque

    Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

  • Mackail also describes a satirical interlude, entitled "The Tables Turned, or Nupkins Awakened," which was acted thrice at Farringden Road in the autumn of 1887 -- a

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • The magistrate then, like Nupkins, had him placed in the dock, and sentenced.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • Esq., led to the altar at St. Clement's Church, Henrietta, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of --- Nupkins, Esq., late Mayor of that city.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • Who was intended by Nupkins, the intolerable Mayor of Ipswich?

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • They were taken to Nupkins ', and there dined with him.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

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