Here my youth rouses, rubshis heavy eyes, "Is it so late?
Perpetua rubs her fan up and down against her cheek for a little bit.
The professor rubs his eyes, and then suddenly an overwhelming sense of gratitude towards Mrs. Mulcahy takes possession of him.
While singing he moistens his fingers with spittle, which he rubs upon the breast of the woman.
In this instance the doctor probably rubs the medicine upon the affected part while reciting the first paragraph in a whisper, after which he blows once upon the spot.
Among the Churchmen were some, no doubt, who remembered the snubs and rubsthey had themselves experienced, and the memory may have made them revengeful.
He rubs his fingers through his bristly hair, and then downwards to his nasal organ, feeling for his devoted glasses.
Mr. Seabrook rubs his hands, twists his fingers in various ways, and gives utterance to words of consolation, most blandly.
Reaching out his hand, he takes the cap from Harry's head, throws it into the woman's lap; again rubs his hair into a friz.
He winks and blinks, rubs his eyes, works his face into all the angles and contortions it is capable of, and commences searching for his hat and spectacles.
Stepping a few feet behind M'Fadden, Romescos rubs his hands in great anxiety, makes curious signs to the clerks at the desk, and charges his mouth with a fresh cut of tobacco.
Bradshaw rubs his hands, and grins, and bows, his face seeming two shades blacker than ever, but no less cheerful.
He pats his preacher on the shoulder, takes off his shackles, rubs his head with his hand, tells the boys to keep an eye on him.
Harry has no reply to make; but rubs his face as if he is not quite satisfied with his new apartment, and wants to know a little more of the motive of the expedition.
After a pause he raises himself up, rubs his eyes and looks wonderingly about him.
She was speechless and began to rub her eyes with the back of her hand, as a child rubs the sleep out of its eyes, and she fretted also in childish fashion.
Then she rubs her hands together as if to wash them, which she does according to the statement of the lady in waiting, often continuously for a quarter of an hour.
When Lena, walking in her sleep, was called by her lover, she rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand as a child rubs the sleep from its eyelids and fretted also in childish fashion.
There's no doubt I am selfish, but there is a limit to a fellow's endurance when another fellow claims the discovery and rubs it in upon you until he abrades the skin.
He rubs one black ear on the floor, Rubs a little, and nothing more.
And when it is over, the girl rubs herself over with red earth, and strews finely powdered red earth on the ground, before she leaves the hut where she has been shut up.
The operator takes a very sharp bone of an ape, rubs it with a pungent spice, and then pinching up the skin of his son's arm he pierces it with the bone through and through, as a surgeon might introduce a seton.
Before beginning a bargain or asking a white trader or another person for gifts of goods, he secretly pulls out the feather through the soft gum, and rubs a little of the liquid on the end of his nose.
His hands he then rubsover his face rapidly and vigorously, saying, "So will I do to that woman!
She washes it clean of mud and rubs it on her breast.
The assistant holds the basket while the doctor climbs the tree and rubs off pieces of loose bark which are caught in the basket as they fall.
I gave a few kopecks to Petroff to buy soap and a bunch of the twigs with which one rubs oneself in the bath.
One can pass the finger between the iron and the flesh; but the ring rubs against the calf, so that in a single day the convict who walks without leather straps, gets his skin broken.
I see no prospect of any benefit by further proceedings, and if you are of my opinion that an Equity suit would serve me, I would lie down under the wrong and leave it among the many hard rubs in life I have suffered.
If one tendril touches orrubs against another, it is said not to curve.
If one very gently rubs the inner or concave side of its little hook, then in a very few minutes, or even seconds, the tendril distinctly curves.
To have a useful, absorbing occupation--it rubs off the bloom, lowers our price in the market, you see.
Whatever substance a seventh son rubs with must be worn by his patients so long as they live.
Puss is a tame little creature and rubs herself mildly against our shoes, looking up in our faces and mewing her thoughts.
She rubs the sole of one slipper against the instep of the other.
She rubs her hands as if warming them before a fire.
He puts some water on a stone and then rubs a cake of ink in the water.
Then the old man puts salt and the dust of banana leaves into the blood, and rubs both arms together.
For fifteen unhappy minutes the skeleton-key is wriggled and twisted about again in the key- hole, and the fat proprietaire rubs his bald head impatiently, but all to no purpose.
It is not well to use unfluxed gold on hard china as it rubs off very easily.
If your colors come out dull, and if your rose or carmines are brick color instead of a clear pink, or if your gold rubs off, you may know that you have not fired long enough.
A little moth, called the pronuba, after gathering pollen from an anther, deposits an egg in the ovary of the pistil, and then rubs its load of pollen over the stigma of the flower.
The elephant every time it passes along the street rubsitself against the wall of my house, and being angry, I said these words.
Every day,' he said, 'he rubs himself against my house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
