1.   Indeed, as he shut the car door, he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff.

2.   Two uniformed men were on their hands and knees, brushing at the carpet with their fingers.

3.   With a brisk motion, she brushes at the stains on her white wool dress.

4.   He brushed at it irritably.

5.   He tugged off the leather breastplate, then the tunic, and brushed at the blood.

6.   Morthen wrapped the furs around her own body, tugged on the wolfskin trousers, brushing at the bloodstain where her blade had slashed.

7.   Dark seamed trousers were brushed at the knee by a black funnel-neck coat with placket front.

8.   Timoney waved and saluted to the crowd of officers and their families and at one point brushed tears from his eyes.

9.   Family members and friends, seated in folding chairs on the hot tarmac, brushed at their eye with handkerchiefs.