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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘Will you go to my cupboard and get my razor, shaving-brush, and towel?’ ❋ 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. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
Cushions ½ in. apart, composed of a little tuft of white woolly hair, a cluster of erect, rather long bristles, like a small shaving-brush, and all pointing upwards; spines usually only one in each cushion, and this is slender, deflexed, white, and from ❋ W. Watson (N/A)
Ralph came to the door of his dressing-room in his shirt-sleeves, shaving-brush in hand. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
They ran over his mosquito nets, ate his soap, his books, his boots, and his shaving-brush, and screamed and fought all night, until he invented a clever trap and stopped their thefts. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
Swabey packs my shaving-brush and my safety razor into my dress shoes, where I come upon them eventually. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Excuse me, dear," said he, laughing, and he held up his shaving-brush, covered with white lather. ❋ Various (N/A)
He went on working his soap into a lather with his shaving-brush. ❋ Various (N/A)
I dropped the shaving-brush; I felt my eyes grow moist; and, suddenly, becoming more tender, I bent toward him and kissed him on the neck, which was the only spot left clear. ❋ Various (N/A)
As no shaving-brush was available, the _piou-piou_ in the next bed lathered him with his tooth-brush. ❋ Kathleen Burke (1922)
It wasn't the spare sponge; it wasn't the extra shaving-brush; it wasn't the second pair of bedroom slippers. ❋ Unknown (1919)
