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  • Depends awn the wine… NiteTraynExpress adn Ripple are like PLEHPLEHPLEHPLEHBLARGLBARF tehy iz teh ransid grep joos adn teh rubbin akahol.

    i had a sad - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Come on BS, these are the jeans everyone should be "rubbin'" ... er, so to speak.

    In the Fold: Small Bikes and Fancy Pants BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • I have been "rubbin" a pair of 105 STI's on one of my main bikes since I purchased it more than 6 years ago.

    Cheap and Easy: The Fundamental Problem of Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He was rubbin 'up his buits, an' syne brethin 'on them, an' rubbin 'them up again, an' settin 'himsel' back an 'lookin' at himsel 'in them.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Lots o 'players has _tackled_ Wes, and right at the _start_' ud mebby give him trouble, -- but in the _long run_, now mind ye -- _in the long run_, no mortal man, I reckon, had any business o 'rubbin' knees with Wes Cotterl under no airthly checker-board in all this vale o 'tears!

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • "Shure, I'll save you the trouble o 'rubbin' that, Misther Dick, if you let me; here's the shabby leather."

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

  • Patrick will have to get used to "rubbin, '" the Nascar term for using stock-car bumpers to ram into other cars on the track.

    NYT > Home Page By VIV BERNSTEIN 2010

  • ` Well, it happened in the coorse iv time that one ould gandher tuck a wondherful likin 'to Terence, an' divil a place he could go serenadin 'about the farm, or lookin' afther the men, but the gandher id be at his heels, an 'rubbin' himself agin his legs, an 'lookin' up in his face jist like any other Christian id do; an 'begorra, the likes iv it was never seen -- Terence Mooney an' the gandher wor so great.

    The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

  • 'Well, it happened in the coorse iv time that one ould gandher tuck a wondherful likin' to Terence, an 'divil a place he could go serenadin' about the farm, or lookin 'afther the men, but the gandher id be at his heels, an' rubbin 'himself agin his legs, an' lookin 'up in his face jist like any other Christian id do; an' begorra, the likes iv it was never seen -- Terence Mooney an 'the gandher wor so great.

    The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • "My father used to say he could just remember him, standin 'at the mill-door, all white with flour, an' rubbin 'his hands and laughin', jes 'the way Farmer does.

    Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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