face-powder

I thought of telling her, not so long ago, to get the hamhock out of here and stick it up her face-powder.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

The hem of her abbreviated skirt cried out for the attention of an expert seamstress, her collar was smudged with face-powder, and unless wearing a single earring was the fashion here, she'd lost one of her diamond pendants.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

The hem of her abbreviated skirt cried out for the attention of an expert seamstress, her collar was smudged with face-powder, and unless wearing a single earring was the fashion here, she'd lost one of her diamond pendants.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Roucolle and the Pole began swearing on the names of the saints that it was only face-powder; but it was no use, the more they protested the more suspicious the police became.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

And, like strange birds alighting, you had slim and charming girls in organdie frocks and face-powder and bobbed hair, fluttering into the plaza.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Easter eggs full of face-powder to the church-going debutantes of the year.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

There were other children, however, and fat mammas in black satin that was greasy and grey at the edges with an overflow of face-powder.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Who pays for the asparagus and jelly and face-powder, nobody asks, because everybody knows.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

On the dressing-table there were bottles of Cologne, nail varnish, mascara, face-powder, shampoo, suede-cleaning brushes, packets of cotton wool, sun-glasses and cigarettes.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

She swept her arm across the top of her dressing-table: one of the bowls hit the floor and burst with a splash of face-powder and there was the sudden pungent reek of spilled perfume.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964