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Sentences starting with rubbing

Rubbing away the rust, he used tallow from the candle, and tried the lock again; still it would not turn. [11]
Rubbing his hands, and drawing his lean leg up till it touched his nose, he looked over it with avid eyes, and said: "How much-- don't read the items, but come to total debit--how much she pays me? [11]

Sentences containing rubbing two or more times

He kept mumbling to himself: "Ho, ho, Farette is below there with the gun, rubbing and rubbing at the rust! [11]

More example sentences with the word rubbing in them

He was attempting, when Stephen appeared, to get a little heat into his hands by rubbing them, as a man who kindles a stick of wood for a visitor. [9]
When he perceived what had occurred, and saw his faithful follower, with a face distorted by pain, rubbing his shoulder, his cheeks flushed angrily, and with just indignation he rebuked Siebenburg for his unseemly intrusion into his quarters and his brutal conduct. [10]
The Queen's garments were chiefly variegated bath-towels, and she was rubbing her beaming countenance and ample bosom with hair-oil and essence of new-mown hay. [11]
I turned and went in after him with the landlord, who was rubbing his hands with glee. [9]
He sat up very late with me that night on the Lake House porch to give me a rubbing down, as he expressed it, as he might have admonished some favorite jockey before a sweepstake. [9]
It's of no use cross-examining my eyes,' cried Sampson, winking and rubbing them, 'they stick to their first account, and will. [12]
Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. [5]
The light, warm touch soothed the fettered prince of the desert, and, rubbing his brow against Melissa's round arm, he muttered a low, contented growl. [10]
And at that time of all others the fact came up to me with irresistible humour that I, a young colonial Whig, who had grown up to detest these people, should be rubbing noses with them. [9]
His terrier, as though realizing exactly what he wished, seemed to guide him by rubbing against his legs, and even pressing hard against them when he was in any danger of losing the middle of the road, or swerving towards a ditch or some obstruction. [11]
While waiting for the young man to take his place on the step Rostopchin stood frowning and rubbing his face with his hand. [2]
He went along the whole length of this passage to the stairs and, frowning and rubbing his forehead with both hands, went down as far as the first landing. [2]
Ephum still opened the store in the mornings, but Mr. Hopper was within the ground-glass office before the place was warm, and through warerooms and shipping rooms, rubbing his hands, to see if any were late. [9]
When he entered the private room Count Rostopchin, puckering his face, was rubbing his forehead and eyes with his hand. [2]
She stood before the mirror, rubbing her face with oatmeal and frowning hard. [11]
I crawled about the ground, seizing and examining bits of stone, blowing the dust from them or rubbing them on my clothes, and then peering at them with anxious hope. [5]
When she learns that he, the son of Caesar, has given his young heart to the cast-off wife of a street orator, a woman whose home attracted men as ripe dates lure birds, it will be--I know--like rubbing salt into her fresh wounds. [10]
Now she has sat down again by the old man, and is rubbing his forehead. [10]
Merlin broke in, rubbing his hands and smiling his lowdownest smile of malicious gratification: "'Tis well said, right well said! [5]
Whenever the sound reached his ears, he would immediately lay down his pen and fall to rubbing his hands and exhibiting the greatest glee. [12]
She will be quite ill now," said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white hands. [2]
She went quickly out where she could not be seen from the windows of the house, and gave him a rubbing down till he was quite dry. [11]
Honest Jack Pearce, one of the few good seamen we had aboard, was rubbing down one of the nines beside me. [9]
His cap was off and his hair was a little rumpled where the wound had been, for he had a habit of rubbing the place now and then--an abstracted, sensitive motion--although he seemed to suffer no pain. [11]
After assuring himself of this fact he stood still, rubbing his narrow forehead with the tips of his fingers. [10]
In the privacy of the kitchen Hannah paused suddenly in her energetic rubbing of a plate and with supreme courage uttered a question. [9]
The first person of our dual consciousness has been smirking and rubbing his hands and felicitating himself on his innumerable superiorities, until we have grown a little tired of him. [6]
At the moment of my arrival the head 'ostler was rubbing down the stallion's flank. [9]
From the Terror of France I had got a peasant's dress, and by rubbing my hands and face with the stain of butternut, cutting again my new-grown beard, and wearing a wig, I was well guarded against discovery. [11]
He did not observe Caesar at first, for after his bath his wounds were burning and he was rubbing his back against the rough stone of a pillar. [10]
From rubbing his nose with the ruler, to poising it in his hand and giving it an occasional flourish after the tomahawk manner, the transition was easy and natural. [12]
There could be no pounding, no chiselling, but only rubbing of the hard stone. [11]
The fact that Mr. Ball was waiting on customers made no difference, and presently that gentleman appeared, rubbing his hands together. [9]
His life is mostly devoted to carrying bulky panniers and packages which rest against his body--therefore he is habituated to taking the outside edge of mountain paths, to keep his bundles from rubbing against rocks or banks on the other. [5]
Behind, in the mill, Farette was chuckling and rubbing his hands. [11]
Boges followed his master, rubbing his fat hands, and laughing quietly to himself. [10]
He is a little man, and has a habit of rubbing the sharp ridge of his nose. [9]
Her pretty head lay in Bent-Anat's lap, and Nefert tried to restore her to animation by rubbing her temples with strong essences. [10]
Telyanin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostov had left him, rubbing his small white hands. [2]
And what's more--if I was one of them I would see a man in Jericho before I would drop my business and come to him for the rubbing of an old tin lamp. [5]
I sat down, hoping that I might fall heir to the chair belonging to the better of the remaining two barbers, for he had already begun combing his man's hair, while his comrade was not yet quite done rubbing up and oiling his customer's locks. [5]
We struck the home-trail now, and in a few hours were in that astonishing Chicago--a city where they are always rubbing the lamp, and fetching up the genii, and contriving and achieving new impossibilities. [5]
He put out his tongue at her, but presently released his sister, who stood rubbing her arm, her lips moving in evident recrimination and complaint. [9]
He stood rubbing his hands together, and it seemed to William Wetherell that the Speaker did not rap as sharply with his gavel as he had upon other occasions. [9]
Mudjikewis commenced rubbing his eyes and stretching himself. [5]
The dentist gives him some yellow liquid to hold in his mouth, which the man insists on swallowing, wets a handkerchief and washes his face, roughly rubbing his nose the wrong way, and lets him go. [4]
Slightly snorting and grunting, he presented now his back and now his plump hairy chest to the brush with which his valet was rubbing him down. [2]
When she was gone the old heartbreaker muttered, rubbing his hands-- "It was a good stroke. [5]
Then rubbing his fingers, as though to rid them of pollution, with an exclamation of disgust he went back to the house. [11]
And in a few moments he entered, rubbing his hands and holding them out to the blaze. [9]
By rubbing the edges of the wood with grease from a candle on the table, he was able to readjust the panel in silence. [11]
Another borzoi, a dog, catching sight of his master from the garden path, arched his back and, rushing headlong toward the porch with lifted tail, began rubbing himself against his legs. [2]
The doctor soon came, and by the use of smart rubbing and stimulants the color came back slowly to my cheeks and the arrested circulation was again set in motion. [6]
Two years went by, and she got better every way, but inside her leg those broken pieces of bone were rubbing against each other. [11]
I think they begin rubbing in cold blood, and then, you know, l'appetit vient en mangeant, the more they rub the more they want to. [6]
If he, old as he is--But it is not for the likes of us to intrude into Caesar's quarters--Still--" He paused, laying his hand on his brow, and rubbing it thoughtfully with his short middle finger. [10]
The sparkling eyes and the delighted rubbing of hands made eloquent answer--this reverend crowd _would_ like to know what that monarch was at, just as this moment. [5]
The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump white hands with an air of calm importance. [2]
He was silent all through dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his nose. [2]

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