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He plumped down on a chair, mopping at the shaving-soap on his cheeks - I'd practically had to manhandle his valet to be admitted, and I'd left a trail of startled minions on the back-stairs in my haste to get to his room.
Fiancée 2010
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Pawed-over heaps of tooth - brushes and combs and packages of shaving-soap.
Main Street 2004
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He plumped down on a chair, mopping at the shaving-soap on his cheeks — I'd practically had to manhandle his valet to be admitted, and I'd left a trail of startled minions on the back-stairs in my haste to get to his room.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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He plumped down on a chair, mopping at the shaving-soap on his cheeks - I'd practically had to manhandle his valet to be admitted, and I'd left a trail of startled minions on the back-stairs in my haste to get to his room.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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The toothbrush was in its mug, the razor on a shelf with some shaving-soap and a pumice stone.
Maigret and Monsieur Charles Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1972
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She implored him not to mistake the sandwiches for his shaving-soap, and made him observe how carefully she had provided against such confusion, by placing them as far apart from each other as the nature of saddle-bags will admit.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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For a republic is a republic, and Niagara is Niagara forever; but tell how you stood on the chain-bridge at Niagara -- if there is one there -- and bought a cake of shaving-soap from a tribe of Indians at a fabulous price, or how your baby jumped from the arms of the careless nurse into the Falls, and immediately your own individuality is thrown around the scenery, and it acquires a human interest.
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Remembering all that she had heard of the desert people she had been surprised at the fastidious care he took of himself, the frequent bathing, the spotless cleanliness of his robes, the fresh wholesomeness that clung about him, the faint, clean smell of shaving-soap mingling with the perfume of the Turkish tobacco that was always associated with him.
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The receptacles of beer, tea, cider and shaving-soap that figure in her woodcuts are old friends we are glad to see again, and none the less so for the somewhat startling duty they are made to perform in the illustration of æsthetic culture.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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I should just cut off the supply of cigarettes and shaving-soap, stop wishing me good luck, and, with haughty contempt, say, "Call yourself a soldier!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various
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