clothes-brush

The aspect of this gaunt young man, with a muddy skin and hair cropped like a clothes-brush, who was curt of speech and possessed a piercing eye and a gloomy vivaciousness, terrified the unhappy Oscar.

A Start in Life 2007

Pantaleone put the bottle on the floor, ran out and returned at once with two brushes, one a hair-brush, and one a clothes-brush.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

I had already been warned that I should never show surprise, so I merely expressed my sympathy, and said that though I had only been in the capital so short a time, I had already had a very narrow escape from stealing a clothes-brush, and that though I had resisted temptation so far, I was sadly afraid that if I saw any object of special interest that was neither too hot nor too heavy,

Erewhon 2003

Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual “There!” — yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Did you know he's taken Dad's clothes-brush this morning?

The Rat-A-Tat Mystery Blyton, Enid 1966

The gentlemen's room should be provided with a boot-jack, a whisk, and a clothes-brush.

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

One new boy said that Charlie Gordon had hit him on the head with a clothes-brush -- "not a severe blow," he had to own.

The Story of General Gordon Jeanie Lang

Meighen's negligence in the matter of a hat perhaps comes of the bother of finding the clothes-brush at the same time.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

Plants may be sprayed by using a watering pot with a fine rose or sprinkler, or an old hair-brush or clothes-brush.

The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

[48] But as the shelves are not fixed to the uprights, it is a simple matter to remove each shelf in turn from the room, and brush out the dust with a stiff clothes-brush.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan