brass-rubbing

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Examples

• The better she does,” she said, rubbing the skin around the clamps, “the heavier it gets.

• Establishment figures, Tea Partiers, evangelicals, and libertarians will all be rubbing elbows at a single theater.

• But that project ran into serious hurdles with the network brass.

• So maybe we should take a lesson from women with brass ovaries: comedy and feminism are longstanding bedfellows.

• But even as he was receiving awards, the military brass was processing his discharge—they had found out he was transgender.

• They were provided with sails and twelve oars each, and a falconet, or small brass cannon.

• “Let us have some of your best wine to-day, waiter,” said old Wardle, rubbing his hands.

• "I wonder if 'twas a brass drum, such as has 'Eblubust Unum' printed on't," said Mrs. Slocum.

• Picture frames, nicely moulded in brass, were made here in 1825, by a modeller named Maurice Garvey.

• The air was heavy with the perfume of frankincense which smouldered in a brass vessel set upon a tray.