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Hence when Mr. Brooke noddingly appealed to that motive, Sir James felt a sudden embarrassment; there was a stoppage in his throat; he even blushed.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

The senior shook his head incredulously; Iglesias shook his head noddingly.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various