shaving-brush

In the long shadows of the late-winter sun it is easy to distinguish them and follow one downhill to a gap in the railway fence, where the animals obviously like to scratch themselves on the wire, leaving little clumps of their shaving-brush hair on the grass.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In the long shadows of the late-winter sun it is easy to distinguish them and follow one downhill to a gap in the railway fence, where the animals obviously like to scratch themselves on the wire, leaving little clumps of their shaving-brush hair on the grass.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The white ploom of the West Diddlesex Yomingry I fixt on the topp of this Shacko, where it spread hout like a shaving-brush.

The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

The white ploom of the West Diddlesex Yomingry I fixt on the topp of this Shacko, where it spread hout like a shaving-brush.

Burlesques 2006

But show us a miserable, unbreeched, human entity, whose whole profession it is to take a tub for a fortified town and a shaving-brush for the deadly stiletto, and who passes three-fourths of his time in a dream and the rest in open self-deception, and we expect him to be as nice upon a matter of fact as a scientific expert bearing evidence.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

The tub was long enough for a Prussian Guard, and above the set bowl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush holder, shaving-brush holder, soap-dish, sponge-dish, and medicine-cabinet, so glittering and so ingenious that they resembled an electrical instrument-board.

Babbit 2004

‘Will you go to my cupboard and get my razor, shaving-brush, and towel?’

Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

I went upstairs and opened my suitcase; there was the rucksack, the convict clothes, and one or two personal odds and ends of my own that I had stuffed into the pockets of my flying coat before leaving the aerodrome-a razor, shaving-brush, etc.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

Ralph came to the door of his dressing-room in his shirt-sleeves, shaving-brush in hand.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

Tall, square base, with reliefs, fluted columns, queer top; -- looks like an inverted wineglass with a shaving-brush standing up on it: representative of flame, probably.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various