Example Sentences

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If there were this morning in my lodging an unrubbed lamp, I would toss it from the window for such magic as he might extract from it.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

"Marble slabs, rubbed" are going to cost more to import than "marble slabs, unrubbed."

From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas

What we are planning to do in this office is to get in a quantity of unrubbed marble slabs and then rub them ourselves.

From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas

Catch your moth in the net, take him out of it by cornering him with the open mouth of your poison bottle, so that you secure him unrubbed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

The Red Admiral, if one might judge by his unrubbed wings and the new and glossy vividness of his colorings, may have been some nine hours old.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway