Read full poem →I must e’en put a cheery face on it,
Suppress the whole, rub off the unfinished thoughts,
For fear she read them. O, ’tis pity indeed,
Dictionary Entry
An act of rubbing.
In a Sentence
“Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ruboff rubagainst rubrub friction
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Poetry examples for “rub”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the harness and shafts. And the men in undershirts
kiss her ears and rub her nose, and tie blankets on
her, and take her away to have the sweat sponged.
Read full poem →Have you not seen shop-painters paste
Their gold in sheets, then rub to waste
Full half, and, lo, you read the name?
Read full poem →provided an instant may be fixed
so that it will not rub, like any other pastel.
Read full poem →Or a meadow to walk through to the river?
The wind’s in the corn; you rub your hands
For beeves hereafter ready for market;
Read full poem →Sometimes as we talk you rise
And leave the room, and then I rub a streak
Of a tear from my cheek.
Read full poem →And roused from slumber dreamless, deep--
You rub away the slumber's mist,
You scold and almost weep.
Read full poem →But I to men in power a ---- am still,
To rub on any honest face they will.
Thus on I'll go; for libels I declare; }
Read full poem →What if I give a masquerade?—I will. 10
But how? ay, there’s the rub! (_pausing_)—I’ve got my cue:
The world’s a masquerade! the maskers, you, you, you.
Read full poem →The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass