paint-brushes

Men put mountains on the walls and stick paint-brushes into wounds in their heads and dance dollar signs on the cloudy cliffs.

Reverend Billy: New York is Burning: Let's Put the Fire Out 2010

Men put mountains on the walls and stick paint-brushes into wounds in their heads and dance dollar signs on the cloudy cliffs.

Reverend Billy: New York is Burning: Let's Put the Fire Out 2010

They dipped the ends of their tails, which were much like paint-brushes, into a pail of whitewash, backed up against the house, and wagged their tails right and left until the whitewash was rubbed on the wall, after which they dipped these funny brushes in the pail again and repeated the performance.

Love Letters 2010

The paint-brushes, drunk with rage and love, paint and paint.

Time Regained 2003

"You said turps was used to get paint-brushes clean, or to get smears of paint off anything," said Bets, drying her eyes.

The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat Blyton, Enid 1957

In addition to these characters, wandering musicians find their way into the café, jugglers, peddlers of Roman mosaics and jewelry, plaster-casts and sponges, perfumery and paint-brushes.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

It was not long before his body looked as if he had a crop of paint-brushes growing all over it; for a feather, when it first comes, is protected by a little case, and the end of the feather, which sticks out of the tip of the case, does look very much like the soft hairs at the end of a paint-brush, the kind that has a hollow quill stem, you know.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

Yes, Corbie was molting, and he had a very unfinished sort of look while the new crop of paint-brushes sprouted out all over him.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

In the other they are learning the use of paints and paint-brushes.

Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Muslin petticoats, tossed down haphazard, pieces of lace, a cardboard helmet covered with gilt paper, open jewel-cases, bows of ribbon; curling-tongs, half hidden in the ashes; and on every side little pots, paint-brushes, odds and ends of all kinds.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various