bear's-grease

As she sat musing, now wishing "C" had left her life forever when he left it with the odors of musk and bear's-grease about him, and now despising herself for the weakness she found it so hard to overcome, she became conscious of a denser shadow in the shadows of the open door.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

I could have endured the red hair, even those dreadful teeth, had it not been for the bear's-grease and general vulgarity of the creature.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

"John's mended regular, all but his hair, and if soap-suds and bear's-grease would patch his top he wouldn't be bald another day."

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

A run on bear's-grease and hair-oil lent a shining halo to nearly every head the camp could boast.

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

At these words, that explained the previous incomprehensible difference between the distant "C" and present person, the realization of the companionship, the romance, the friendship gone to wreck on this reef of musk and bear's-grease came over Nattie with a rush, and for a moment so affected her that she could hardly restrain her tears.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

He struts in the plumes which his fathers wore, is attired in the same nether garments, exhibits the same head-gear, and decorates his physiognomy with the sane proportion of white-wash, red-lead, bear's-grease, and

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

The General arrived; and for the first day all went well, except that Jackanapes's hair was as wild as usual, for the hair-dresser had no bear's-grease left.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

It was lofty and unwarmed save by excitement, and the smell of bear's-grease.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

They smear their heads with bear's-grease, which they all carry with them for this purpose in a small basket; they say they do it to make their hair grow better and to prevent their having lice.

Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 1898

They need more food and particularly they need more fat when they lie out at extreme low temperatures, and we seek to increase that element in their rations by adding tallow or bacon or bear's-grease -- or seal oil -- or whatever oleaginous substance we can come by.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891