rosining

Are we saving our skins here, or are we just rosining our bows and shining up our fiddles?

Anya Kamenetz: One Dozen Governments Will Fall 2008

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever.

The Fiddler of the Reels 2006

It is only your pseudo-saint, who cuddles himself for the pulpit and the platform, and keeps the safety-valve down with midnight sittings while "rosining up" the furnaces with strong coffee, that will come to grief by collapse of flues.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year 1891

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever.

Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884