Wig Block

After the most trifling reparation of a street it was customary to place his great wig-block (_tête à perruque_) there. ❋ Richard Twiss (N/A)

It will be asked whether I am not the ` elderly gentleman 'who sate ` despairing beside a clear stream', with a willow for his wig-block. ❋ Unknown (1927)

There was the old clergyman, such as Dr. Chauncey, wearing a white wig, which the barber took from his head and placed upon a wig-block. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

There was the old clergyman, such as Dr. Chauncey, wearing a white wig, which the barber took from his head, and placed upon a wig-block. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Nevertheless, as he might possibly take it into his head to come into the room, I carefully arranged a wig-block in a night-cap on the pillow, and huddled up the coverlet so as to deceive a casual glance. ❋ Unknown (1827)

"More probably a barber, who has converted his own head into a wig-block," growled John Effingham. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

I then retired to the opposite end, and surveyed the furniture; nothing retained its original form or position; -- the tables and chairs seemed to loom from the floor, and my grandfather's picture to thrust forward its nose like a French-horn, while that of my grandmother, who was reckoned a beauty in her day, looked, in her hoop, like her husband's wig-block stuck on a tub. ❋ Washington Allston (1811)

Neatly spread out, fan-wise, on one side of this bench, was the Druid’s golden beard and moustache and, hooked over a table lamp in lieu of a wig-block, the golden wig itself, topped by a tall crown of mistletoe. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1972)

“They went in, and taking the wig-block for your head they came up to the bed and politely wished you good morning. ❋ Unknown (1827)

"They went in, and taking the wig-block for your head they came up to the bed and politely wished you good morning. ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

Jievc mc, I delivered the whole fpeech without the lead hefitation in the fervant's room, and fpeaking to your wig-block, if it could but teil you. mrVefey, I was then at ftudy in my clofet, and to comfort you, mu (t fay, I heard it. ❋ Unknown (1792)