He now dropped naturally into the Bear habit of seeing how high he could reach with his nose on the rubbing-post, whenever he was near one. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
There was a groom behind him, and another at the rubbing-post, all in livery as glorious as New Jerusalem. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
The bark was rubbed completely away, and this appeared to have been used for years as a favourite rubbing-post by some immense elephant. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
The mud plastered to a great height upon the stem showed this to be his favourite rubbing-post after bathing. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
Moormen gun-bearers, who were trusty fellows that I had frequently shot with, I crept cautiously back to my former position, and took my station behind the large tree farthest from the point which commanded the favourite rubbing-post and within fifty yards of it. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
I soon restored quiet, and ordering the horses to be led into the jungle lest he should discover them, I made the people conceal themselves; and taking my two Moormen gun-bearers, who were trusty fellows that I had frequently shot with, I crept cautiously back to my former position, and took my station behind the large tree farthest from the point which commanded the favourite rubbing-post and within fifty yards of it. ❋ Baker, Samuel W. (1854)
The bark of the tree -- a full-topped shady acacia -- for some distance up was worn smooth upon one side, just as though cattle had used it for a rubbing-post. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Sometimes a Governor forgets the purpose for which he was sent out from home, and placed on high in a colony, as a rubbing-post; he sometimes lapses into the error of fancying himself a colonial Solon, and strives to distinguish his reign by the enactment of laws, which only increase the natural irritability of the settlers, and cause him to be more rubbed against than ever. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
Government-offices, where the rubbing-post is set up, and one after another they are admitted to find what relief they may from this cheap luxury. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
Among those who haunted the ante-room, waiting for admittance to the rubbing-post was a tall Irish woman, who had seen better days, but was now reduced to much distress, and was besides not altogether right in her intellects. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
Little Bouncey's horse was still yawning and star-gazing, and Bouncey, being quite unequal to riding him and well-nigh exhausted, 'downed' him against a rubbing-post in the middle of a field, making a 'cannon' with his own and his horse's head, and was immediately the centre of attraction for the panting tail. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)
