Rubs
[rʌbz]
Examples
- Grandfather Smallweed rubs his legs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She rubs everything that can be rubbed, until it shines, like her own honest forehead, with perpetual friction. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn rubs his head with the key while she entertains herself with a sarcastic laugh. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Having distributed these little specimens of his tact, Mr. Bucket rubs his hands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He returns rubbing his chin, and rubs it a good deal in the course of the evening. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr Venus rubs an eyebrow, interrogatively. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have had a severe galling to begin with: that will make the small rubs seem easy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Gordon