1416 examples of shaved in sentences

He put upon him a habit of religion; he shaved his crown, and caused his hair to be polled close to his head.

They washed their whole bodies twice a day; they shaved the head, and wore no beard.

He had shaved off his beard, had reduced his hair to something like order, and in consequence had now the outward resemblance at least of a gentleman.

Even that was something: how much more, to hear that he had shaved his beardhad laid aside his sad-colored clothes, and was adorned like a bridegroom of ancient days.

Most certainly they were; in their primitive ages they took their coena at noon, that was before they had laid aside their barbarism; before they shaved: it was during their barbarism, and in consequence of their barbarism, that they timed their coena thus unseasonably.

CHAPTER XVI UNEXPECTED QUARTERS The appearance of the man whom Mrs. Hardwick addressed so familiarly was more picturesque than pleasing, He had a large, broad face, which, not having been shaved for a week, looked like a wilderness of stubble.

Then there came the barber and he shaved Sir Lamorack and clipped his hair, and when he was thus bathed and trimmed, his nobility shone forth again as the sun shines forth from a thick cloud that hides its effulgence for a while, only to withdraw so that the glorious day-star may shine forth again with redoubled splendor.

Yet this old doting fool was taken at last with that celestial and divine look of Myrilla, the daughter of Anticles the gardener, that smirking wench, that he shaved off his bushy beard, painted his face, [4906]curled his hair, wore a laurel crown to cover his bald pate, and for her love besides was ready to run mad.

" "What do you mean by that?" "You have shaved him, my dear.

Twenty minutes later, shaved and dressed, he descended upon his guest, who sat in torment, on a hall-tree shelf, in Stygian darkness.

He was greatly changed; the bright colour had fled from his cheek; his head had been shaved, and he was thin and wan, and at times they were obliged to watch him, and restrain him from tossing about, to the great peril of his broken arm.

He had to eat dried beef shaved real fine and the negro children fed him.

The servant did something displeasing to her mistress, and the latter in a rage shaved off her hair close to her head.

I remember one day there was called into the school room to open a window, a boy whose head had been shaved in order to disgrace him, and he had been so dreadfully whipped that he could hardly walk.

"Are you waiting to be shaved, Sir?" said a familiar voice.

and, to prevent infection from the small-pox, I ordered all my male servants' heads to be shaved, made the coachman and footman wear tow wigs, and had them both regularly smoked whenever they returned from the neighbouring town, before they were allowed to enter my presence.

" "Most seamen would rejoice to see a strange sail, from the hull of a vessel shaved to the deck like this.

Ships have been running afore the wind, light and buoyant as corks, with all their spars stepped and steady, when other ships have been shaved of every mast as close as the razor sweeps the chin.

I do not think lions are agreeable, especially the shaved-poodle variety one is so apt to encounter;I met one once at an evening party.

As he entered the house with Evan I positively did not know him, for he has shaved off his mustache and queer little pussy-cat whiskers, and with them has gone his "pudgyness."

The bushmen up-country shaved regularly every Sunday morning, but never during the week for anything less than a ball.

" He laughed as he pointed out a group of young priests, carefully shaved, with their cheeks blue and shining, dressed in silk mantles that diffused a strong scent of musk as they moved.

He was so unconscious of anything but her and his parting from her that for some time he did not notice that the slight craft had narrowly shaved the rocks, that it had barely crawled into the middle current, and that he was temporarily safe.

Sift one quart of flour into a deep bowl, add two tumblers of ice-cold water, one tablespoon of brown sugar, a saltspoon of salt, then add the shaved heart fat and work well into the sifted flour.

Trenta laughed quietly to himself, then stroked his well-shaved chin.

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