Brushed

Examples

• He wore a high silk hat which was a little old, but had been carefully brushed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When she was your pride, you would have thought I had done her harm if I had brushed against her in the street. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You've behaved sweetly, and I respect you with all my heart, said Jo warmly, as they brushed their hair together late that night. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He shook the snow from his hat and clothes, and brushed it away from his face, while I was inwardly making these remarks. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Oh, Freddy---- Rosedale brushed aside the topic with an air of its unimportance which gave a sense of the immense perspective he had acquired. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He was looking unconsciously, glisteningly down at her head, from which the hair fell loose, as she brushed it with wild, nervous hand. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His uniform was therefore got out, brushed up, and put on, in advance of the visit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I washed, brushed my hair and we started. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Heated casts of previously carved models were pressed into or on to wet wood, and the charcoal surfaces then brushed off with hard brushes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The sweet-scented leaves of the flower on my left hand just brushed my cheek as I lightly rested my head against the railing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She brushed it to the floor. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Having paused a few seconds to recover breath, he brushed his hat with his elbow, and declared himself ready. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We brushed off and went in to have lunch. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Professor Porter had recovered his shiny silk hat, which he had brushed carefully upon the sleeve of his coat and replaced upon his head. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She held her head aside and brushed and brushed her hair madly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He turned round and looked at her steadily, and then he brushed his lean hand across his eyes and went his way. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Here Mr. Perker drew himself up with conscious dignity, and brushed some stray grains of snuff from his shirt frill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is then scratch-brushed, burnished and, in some patterns, the handle is greyed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For the purpose soapstone will answer, and the mould, as well as the piece of caoutchouc, should be well brushed or dusted with this substance. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In going back to her own room, her nightgown must have brushed the wet paint on the door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When her hair was brushed she would instantly sink into stillness and look like the Sphinx. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I rang; and a new servant noiselessly made his appearance--a foreigner, with a set smile and perfectly brushed hair--a valet every inch of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Since conformity is the aim, what is distinctively individual in a young person is brushed aside, or regarded as a source of mischief or anarchy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This hat has not been brushed for weeks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mary admired the keen-faced handsome little Vicar in his well-brushed threadbare clothes more than any man she had had the opportunity of knowing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Millcote, ---shire; I brushed up my recollections of the map of England, yes, I saw it; both the shire and the town. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Edited by Lester