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"You wears buckskins an' flannels an' a frontier hat; you goes about with your shirt-sleeves rolled up an' a scarf 'stead of a stiff starched collar; but you takes care that thar's allus elegant underclothin' nex' yer skin. You've gotten surprisin' clean habits, too: washes yourself three or four times a day, allus shaves yerself mornin's an' oils an' brushes yer hair.
The face of the dead was frequently painted in accordance with tribal or religious symbolism. Paint is also used on the faces of children and adults as a protection from wind and sun. Plucking the hair from the face and body is a part of the daily program. The male Indian never shaves and the beard is a disgrace. A pair of tweezers becomes his razor. Sweet grasses and seeds serve as a perfume.
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. This is their token of mourning; and during the ensuing thirteen days, they all refrain from chewing betel, any one infringing this law being punished by cutting his lips.
You can't get raw oysters and magazines and individual cocktails and shaves on it. All you can get is cinders and peanuts, and I would advise you, if you were hungry, to eat the former and put the latter in your eye. It's the kind of a train you New Yorkers would ride on and then write home telling about the horrors of travel in the great West. But it means everything to Homeburg.
It appeared from his remarks that he was a very straight rider, which was also very much what Lyon would have expected. Not that he swaggered, for his allusions were very quietly and casually made; but they were all too dangerous experiments and close shaves.
I've had much nearer shaves a dozen times before and escaped scot-free." They talked on desultorily for a time. Then suddenly Roger asked: "When's Nan coming to see me? I told Isobel to 'phone down to Mallow this morning." "You're hardly up to visitors," said Barry, searching for delay. "I don't suppose I ought to have come, really."
Thorkel said, "I would, Grettir, that thou wouldst not avenge thee on Biorn, but for him I will give a full man-gild if thereby ye may be friends." Biorn said he might well turn his money to better account, than to boot for this; "And, methinks it is wisest that in my dealings with Grettir <i>one oak should have what from the other it shaves</i>." Grettir said that he should like that very well.
The Caliph indeed can be scarcely got to submit himself to the test, but we will get an ape, and if this honest man shaves him, as he says he can, without inflicting a scratch, I will adjudge him to be a very proficient barber and an adept in each branch of his trade, both bleeding and shaving. "The people, who are easily led and amused, received my decision with delight.
“That’s bothering me dreadfully,” Maida sighed; “I can’t think of anything he needs.” “Why don’t you buy him the same thing I’m going to get my papa,” Rosie suggested eagerly. “That is, I’m going to buy it if I make enough money at the fair. Does your father shave himself?” “Oh, Adolph, his valet, always shaves him,” Maida answered.
The Weser estuary was on my starboard hand, but the whole place was a lee-shore and a mass of unknown banks just look at them. I ran on, the Dulcibella doing her level best, but we had some narrow shaves of being pooped. She wore round again on the course as I drew level, and we were alongside for a bit.
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