Steve Hackett rubbed the end of his pug nose with a forefinger in quick irritation.
Steve Hackett rubbed a hand over his flattened nose.
There was a pause, during which I pursed up my lips, half-closed my eyes, and thoughtfully rubbed the bristles on my chin.
Neither of us was presentable, but Marion seized a towel and rubbed some splatches of lime off my face, hurried me into an old coat and declared I must go.
She rubbed my hands, smoothed my hair, pressing kisses upon my face, and showing me she sympathized with me in my trouble.
The night air swept more coolly in as they neared the hills, and the train's single brakeman came down as though descending from the sky, rubbed the cinders from his eyes, and returned to his vigil armed with a handful of Ardmore's cigars.
She departed, running like a frightened child, and he crawled out after her and rubbed his bruised shins.
She stood and rubbed her hands over each other and listened to the noise her son made overhead.
Then he walked to the fire, removed his right gaiter and rubbed his huge leg where the strap had pressed too hardly upon it.
If rubbed with salt lightly, it will not eat the worse.
If rubbed every day, a tongue will be ready in a fortnight; but if only turned in the pickle daily, it will keep four or five weeks without being too salt.
Turn it every day and rub the pickle in, which will make it ready for the table in three or four days; if it is desired to be very much corned, wrap it in a well-floured cloth, having rubbed it previously with salt.
I ran my head in between his knees and twisted my body and neck so as to look right up into his face, as he looked down to see whatrubbed against him.
The kennel-men rubbed 'em and scrubbed 'em, and trims their hair and curls and combs it, and some dogs they fatted and some they starved.
She was too angry to tell him whether she liked it or not, for she knew the speech was a mean one and prompted by a mean spirit, and she kept on rubbing a towel until there was danger of its being rubbed into shreds.
Gretchen did not come, and Arthur's face wore a sad, troubled expression, and looked pale and worn, notwithstanding the many times he bathed it in the coldest water and rubbed it with the coarsest towels.
Stewart rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he looked at her.
Stewart broke off a dozen heads of yellow grain, rubbed them out between his hands, blew away the chaff, and poured the fat kernels into her outstretched palm.
The chest should be rubbed with a liniment composed of one part of turpentine and two parts of camphorated oil.
Little Jim stooped down to pet her, and she lifted her head without standing up and rubbed the sides of her pretty black and white face against his small hand, and mewed lazily, with half-closed blinking eyes.
Mixy looked up from her empty milk pan and mewed and looked down at her pan again, and looked up at me again and mewed again, and then walked over to me and rubbed her sides against my boots like she liked me a lot.
So I followed her through the scullery (a spacious and airy place) into the kitchen, having first carefully rubbed the dust off my horny soles on the door-mat.
A great yellow cat came and rubbed itself, tail in air, against my legs, and I stroked it, and it purred pleasantly.
Each boy poured oil into his hand from a little vase and rubbed the body of his antagonist to limber his muscles.
I hear the massagist slapping a lazy fellow who is being rubbed with ointment.
He tied them to a post, rubbed them down, and exercised them at the end of a long halter, while my grandfather admired their paces and also admired in fancy the stock he hoped to raise from them--a dream which he realised with entire success.
My grandfather woke up, rubbedthe sweat off his high forehead with a hot hand, put his head out between the curtains, and burst out laughing.
The two raftsmen rubbed the canoe all over with their hands, and expressed delight at its beautiful finish in their own peculiar vernacular.
She rubbed it the other way--the first streaks came out, new ones were made.
Ivan took the leaves and rubbed them in his hand and gold rained down.
She rubbed the cloth one way, but the table would not come clean.
The dirty cloth rubbed out one streak of dirt and left another.
It rubbed itself against Jilin’s legs and wagged its tail.
When the glue is dry and hard, the pressure is taken off, the paper which is on the outer surface is scraped away, and the whole rubbed down to a fine surface and French polished.
The glass travelling from side to side is rubbed by the buffers in a lateral direction, and has also a longitudinal motion, so that every portion of it is rubbed equally.
