In the middle of the night, I heard this rubbing.

"I'm going to take this rubbing and give it to his family."

But most of the rubbings in the show are more recent.

You're going to make your eyes sore with all that rubbing.

But that is not the only way to make a rubbing, as this group show demonstrates.

But after the first few seconds, the rubbing was no longer painful.

How does just a metal plate clean without any rubbing?

Customers with such patterns can send a rubbing or a photograph.

"Making a rubbing of the inscriptions," the boy said without looking up from his work.

Spent most of the second day taking rubbings and more photos.

To father children, to give my aching muscles the rubbing they need.

Ask your child to tell the story behind the rubbings and why he chose to make them.

Once home, ask family members to view the rubbings and guess what each represents.

He reached into the front of his pants and started a curious rubbing.

Pupils might make stone rubbings to take back to school.

Use the list above to help your child make a kit to do rubbings.

Gravestone rubbing can be used to teach about local history.

He stopped his rubbing and caught her close again.

In another moment the brown gave way to the pink-white, and no further rubbing would change it.

This often results from continuous rubbing or scratching on an area of skin.

Use gentle rubbing after soaking for a short time, say about 1 minute.

Earl opened his kit to take a rubbing of the stone.

In any case, rubbings had been made of the text prior to the fire, so the words were not lost.

This was spoken with a gleeful rubbing of the hands.

You know, they sort of really rub people up the wrong way.

His way of talking was beginning to rub off on her.

I brought up one hand and began to rub his head.

Rub across the head from one side to the other.

A lot of the time, we rub each other the wrong way.

He began to rub at his hands, working life back into them.

My wife has to rub me down every night before I go to bed.

What she really wanted to do was let go and rub the top of her head.

I just wanted somebody to rub oil on my back.

I used to rub it off on the way to school.

A fine home with a pretty woman to rub you down.

I began to rub my hands when the door opened.

That was why he had to rub water from his eyes, certainly.

Now everything just seems to rub your face in it.

Now, though, she was going to have to rub real hard.

I rub it up and down just like he did.

Anything else you'd care to rub into my face while I'm here?

Mother sat down on the bed and began to rub his back with her good hand.

Well, maybe I have had to rub out a few guys now and then.

She looked around for some place to rub herself off on, but there was nothing.

When you rub her the wrong way, how tough is she?

At the very least, they say, the benefits should rub off on them.

If you get something in your eye, do not rub it.

And she was being used to rub the message home.

She wanted to rub a hand over her heart, to hold it there.

The rub was that he would have been dead wrong.

It will all go very dark because of the rub.

The true rub is that the father and son are both of them able men.

Plus I gave him a rub down and did his feet, the full service.

And that is the rub for the entire new order.

But that was the rub; she had never been to any big city.

That was always the rub; we knew so little for sure.

And there's the rub, or at least the first of two.

But here's the rub - there had been one here before!

The rub would come, he realized, if she knew nothing after all.

My mother was still doing the wash with a rub board.

The rub is in what happened to the departed workers.

And here the rub, the wall which always halted him.

He wanted an ordinary one, and that has been the rub.

But here's the rub: There's no way of getting work and family into better balance.

Get a massage or have someone give you a back rub.

He paused, gave the top of his head a last rub, and sat back.

Some sort of feeding process took place that had nothing to do with a back rub.

And that's fine, though it may create some degree of rub.

Everybody needed some refuge from the world's rub, she'd said.

The rub is that all three levels of government face large deficits.

Next he put a hand on my head with an appreciative rub.

There's a rub, and it's the size of the final bill.

And that is the rub if we have set our eyes on the year 2004 as the target date.

A few moments later, we were stepping into the rub together.