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It had been reduced by ruthless rubbings to a mere shadow, but the beauty was ineffaceable: hanging—how well remembered!

Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.

These rubbings bring off merely the dead outer surface of the cuticle which should be out of the way because no longer useful.

I bought of the priest for a dollar a bundle of really fine rubbings of these engravings.

He journeyed from one cathedral city to another, asking erudite questions, making rubbings of brasses, and always haunted.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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