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“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

I rubbed the glass with the cloth.

My shoes are beginning to rub.

meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing

to rub through woods, as huntsmen

to rub up silver

'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.