He shaves four on 'em for a haw-penny, an' there's a deal on 'em connot pay that.

Our forefathers were not ashamed of their beards; but now even the soldier is only allowed to keep his moustache, while our quill-driving masses shave themselves as close as they can; and in proportion to a man's piety he wears less hair, from the young curate who shaves off his whiskers, to the Popish priest who shaves his crown!' 'What do you say, then, to cutting off nuns' hair?'

Our forefathers were not ashamed of their beards; but now even the soldier is only allowed to keep his moustache, while our quill-driving masses shave themselves as close as they can; and in proportion to a man's piety he wears less hair, from the young curate who shaves off his whiskers, to the Popish priest who shaves his crown!' 'What do you say, then, to cutting off nuns' hair?'

" "Any dervishes?" "The usual shaves.

Once, when he had had two particularly close shaves during the day, he insisted upon sleeping outside the barn where we were billeted.

"Did you know," confided Bengal, with a fresh burst of giggles, "that Pecky shaves?"

After the body is burnt, and the ashes buried, the whole company shaves every part of their bodies, even to the youngest child of these idolaters.

The elder Red-Cross knight was a tall, good-looking lad of sixteen, the age when a boy wears painfully high collars, shaves surreptitiouslyand unnecessarilywith his pen-knife, talks to his juniors about the tobacco he smokes in a week, and cherishes an undying passion for a maiden older than himself.

He uses no soap, and has a most uncouth-looking razor, yet he shaves the heads, beards, moustaches, and armpits of his customers with great deftness.

I found the Knight under his Butlers Hands, who always shaves him.

There's a man comes in, sometimes, and shaves him nice; but now the man's gone to Newark.

His shield is claimed by Mar´inel; his horse by Guyon; Talus shaves off his beard; and his lady is shown to be a sham Florimel.

He determined suddenly to shave that profit to twenty-nine per cent.

(Baldheaded like a man and she shaves.

"Yes; Peter's twenty-one, and hes a mustatche and shaves," said the eldest girl, in a manner indicating that she expected me to be struck dumb with surprise.

Not in some glade of Attica or by Sicilian streams, but where a homelier river gushes through the swollen lock at Bray, or shaves the smooth pastoral meadows at Boveney, where Thames begins to draw a longer breath for his passage between Eton and Windsor.

Thus the sessions would go by, to the great delight of the barber Cupidothe sharpest and meanest tongue in the citywho, whenever the Council met, would observe to his early morning shaves: "Holiday today: the usual race of councilors bare-back.

He whistles while he shaves.

In his Lettres sur le Congo (152) Edouard Dupont relates that a man who has lost his wife and wants to show grief shaves his head, blackens himself, stops work, and sits in front of his chimbeque several days.

I found the Knight under his Butlers Hands, who always shaves him.

The universities are full of children, and in the different institutes you only see short trousers, and the Spaniard, before he shaves himself for the first time, is a licentiate and on the high road to become a doctor; the wet nurse will end by sitting by the professor.

When the war is ended, we find our soldier returning in triumph, but little cares he now for honor or fame; he renounces his warlike career, shaves his head, dons a priestly garb, devotes the rest of his days to holy pilgrimage, never turning his back to the West, where lies the Paradise whence salvation comes and whither the sun hastes daily for his rest.

When winter, that healthy ascetic, carries his gigantic razor over hill and valley, and shaves all the trees like monks, we feel surely that they are all the more like trees if they are shorn, just as so many painters and musicians would be all the more like men if they were less like mops.

The barber in the Eastern city shaves not the man's chin, but his head.

Of the closets, one is Mr. the overseer's bed-room, the other his office or place of business; and the third, adjoining our bed-room, and opening immediately out of doors, is Mr. 's dressing room and cabinet d'affaires, where he gives audiences to the negroes, redresses grievances, distributes red woollen caps (a singular gratification to a slave), shaves himself, and performs the other offices of his toilet.