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Then when I went to University Rub-a-dub, I found two bloggers dancing on the edge of a fountain.
Archive 2009-07-01 e 2009
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Then when I went to University Rub-a-dub, I found two bloggers dancing on the edge of a fountain.
Dancing bloggers e 2009
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Rub-a-dub on the dining-table hammered the furious boy's toes and heels, as he broke out into another hornpipe.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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Rub-a-dub went the drums, sounding tattoo, and the beating brought several officers scurrying out of the house.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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The rum seems to make them crazy, for one, who was called 'Rub-a-dub,' pitched 'Dr. Coddle' head and heels into the water.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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The rum seems to make them crazy, for one, who was called 'Rub-a-dub,' pitched 'Dr. Coddle' head and heels into the water.
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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Wolf gave a grunt like one of his pigs, and began his song of "Rub-a-dub."
The Gold Thread A Story for the Young Norman Macleod 1842
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And away he ran among the trees in search of his pigs, while Eric heard his little drum, and his song of "Rub-a-dub, halloo!" die away in the distance.
The Gold Thread A Story for the Young Norman Macleod 1842
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That functionary, however, had not failed, during his circumgyratory movement, to bestow a thought upon the important object of securing the packet in question, which was seen, upon inspection, to have fallen into the most proper hands, being actually directed to himself and Professor Rub-a-dub, in their official capacities of President and Vice-President of the Rotterdam College of Astronomy.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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So at least swore, with a round oath, Professor Rub-a-dub, and so finally thought the illustrious Von Underduk, as he took the arm of his brother in science, and without saying a word, began to make the best of his way home to deliberate upon the measures to be adopted.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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