straighteners

Accordingly, there exists a class of men trained in soul-craft, whom they call straighteners, as nearly as I can translate a word which literally means

Erewhon 2003

Accordingly, there exists a class of men trained in soul-craft, whom they call straighteners, as nearly as I can translate a word which literally means "one who bends back the crooked."

Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.

What Maisie Knew Henry James 1879

Accordingly, there exists a class of men trained in soul-craft, whom they call straighteners, as nearly as I can translate a word which literally means "one who bendeth back the crooked."

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

Accordingly, there exists a class of men trained in soul-craft, whom they call straighteners, as nearly as I can translate a word which literally means "one who bends back the crooked."

Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868

He had roseate visions of lavish expenditures: a warm coat for the old mother, furbelows for Plutina, "straighteners" even, if she would have them.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

We remember the "straighteners" who gave moral medicine to the ethically unwell, the musical banks, the hypothetical language, the machines that threatened to master men, as in the war of 1914 -

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

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WebWire | Recent Headlines 2008

"straighteners," or _extensors_, which straighten or extend it.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

(The lull there between 'straighteners' and 'GHDs' is to account for the time I broke up with Tim and went through my short-lived "I Don't Care" stage.

Emma who? onlyemma 2007