...Others followed his example, andgreat comfort was found in rubbing themselves with pork-fat, oil ofalmonds or of sesame, or turpentine... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...The innkeeper answered, that he was rubbing down hismule in the stable...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...Chauvelin smiled benignly, and rubbing his long, thin hands together, he lookedround the deserted supper-room, whence even the last flunkey had retired inorder to join his friends in the hall below...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...He continued to laugh and chuckle to himself for awhile, rubbing his hands together in anticipation of his triumph...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...He had come up rubbing his hands and taking a proper satisfaction in the energy of the men whom he had enlisted...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... “That boy Waldo,” said Bonaparte, rubbing his toes, “took himself off coolly this morning as soon as the wagon came, and has not done a stiver of work all day...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
... Kneeling there, rubbing softly, with his cheek pressed against the little foot, Gregory dropped to sleep at last...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...He then tried to make fire in the hut and burn it, so that the murder might not be known; but the squeaking noise of rubbing the sticks awakened a servant, and the murderer was detected...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Denham found the greatest relief by rubbing the neck and shoulders with oil, and being shampooed by his servant, Barca’s wife, who, when a slave in the palace of the pacha, had learned the art...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...He went through the ceremony of taking snuff and rubbing his nose...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...His subjects as they approached prostrated themselves, rubbing their heads with earth, and kissing the ground repeatedly, till their faces were covered with the red soil...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Harry and Tubbs, who had been fast asleep, were awakened by the entrance of the party, and now sat up rubbing their eyes, as much astonished as I had been...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...It is tested by acids; or, more commonly, by rubbing the gold on the "black-stone," when the color of the mark, which it leaves upon the stone, decides the character of the metal...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...(Snatching Daisy around to face him) Was you over to Dave’s houseyestiddy rubbing his ole head and cloaking wid him to run me outa town ...
Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes 「The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts」
...This is gummed by rubbing balsam branches up and down the twine in the same way as the bear snare...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Deadfalls and Snares」
...But Ivan's two sonsresuscitate him by rubbing a root upon his body; thedemon lover of Ivan's mother dies as soon as the herorevives again...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The down is removed by rubbing themoistened hand over the skin...
Harry M. Lamon 「Ducks and Geese」
...As a rule, fires originatedin one of three ways: by carelessly left campfires, by lightning, or by the rubbing togetherof two trees swayed by the wind...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...As it did not break out near acamping place, its origin could not be tracedto camp fires; nor could it be charged tolightning or rubbing of trees...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
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