1 He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf.
2 Hardly waiting to rub the dirt off on her skirt, she bit off half and swallowed it hastily.
3 Her hands were chilled and she paused to rub them together and to scuff her feet deeper into the strip of old quilting wrapped about them.
4 A stable boy who didn't rub down his horse after a day's hunt.
5 I don't think he knew what it was all about but he didn't like it and Suellen always did rub him the wrong way.
6 I don't want to rub it in, but you can see for yourself now, this is all a result of your being so discontented and not appreciating the dear good people here.
7 Long before daylight, I was called to go and rub, curry, and feed, the horses.
8 The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
9 These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
10 'That's two doubles and the rub,' said Mr. Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket.
11 Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, any stains, all come out at one rub with the infallible and invaluable composition.
12 You must rub the place with the fat of other adders, and the only way to get that is by frying them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 13 Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
14 As to that," said he, "I must rub through the world as well as I can.
15 He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made.