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Updated: May 29, 2025
One poet sang: "Give Chloe a bushel of horsehair and wool, Of paste and pomatum a pound, Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull And gauze to encompass it round. "Of all the gay colours the rainbow displays Be those ribbons which hang on her head, Be her flowers adapted to make the folks gaze, And about the whole work be they spread.
"Boy as I was," he once wrote, "I had to wait my turn for the hair-dresser to powder and pomatum and curl my hair two large curls on each side and a stiff pigtail. And until this was all nicely done no one thought of presenting himself behind the counter."
She rubs her mouth and eyes with her dusty cambric handkerchief, she ties up her nightcap into a little bundle, and replaces it by a more becoming head-piece, covered with withered artificial flowers, and crumpled tags of ribbon; she looks wistfully at the company for an instant, and then places her handkerchief before her mouth: her eyes roll strangely about for an instant, and you hear a faint clattering noise: the old lady has been getting ready her teeth, which had lain in her basket among the bonbons, pins, oranges, pomatum, bits of cake, lozenges, prayer-books, peppermint-water, copper money, and false hair stowed away there during the voyage.
I say, though, you are a deal better. Fortni't ago you'd have shrunk like if I'd touched you even as tender as that." "What's that pomatum?" "Pomatum! As if I'd use pomatum to a gent's 'air or a private's either. No, that's a cream made from a prescription I gave a 'airdresser half a soverin' for. Violets is nothing to it in the way o' smell.
"He's washing them with a lump of grease," said I. "I saw Francis give it him. It's to get the tar off." "That indeed? Alister! Alister! Have ye no eyes in the back of ye? Here's Jack and myself." "I beg your pardon, sir," said Alister, stiffly. "Oh, confound your sir-liness!" muttered Dennis, and added aloud, "Is that pomatum for your hair?" Alister laughed in spite of himself.
His side curls gone, the powder and pomatum washed from his hair, bedraggled and muddy and sputtering oaths, he made his way to Lord March, swearing by all divine that a trick was put on him, that he would ride the stallion to Land's End. His Lordship, pulling his face straight, gravely informed the duke that the match was over.
His thick white hair, on which Adolf had bestowed a touch of pomatum, exhaled the fragrance of opoponax and cigars the celebrated Swithin brand, for which he paid one hundred and forty shillings the hundred, and of which old Jolyon had unkindly said, he wouldn't smoke them as a gift; they wanted the stomach of a horse! "Adolf!" "Sare!" "The new plaid rug!"
Just fancy that scrap teaching school!" "Isn't it dangerous?" asked Mary Silver. "Dangerous? How? To her scholars, do you mean? Oh, the Indians! Well, her scalp will be easy to identify if she has adhered to her favorite pomatum; that's one comfort," put in naughty Rose. It was a merry luncheon indeed, as little Rose seemed to think, for she laughed and cooed incessantly.
I had not thought of it." His fingers sought a pomatum box, and in doing so displaced a toilet-case of red morocco. An oblong paper package fell from the top of this and arrested the King's attention. "Why, what is this?" "What is this, Francois?" The royal voice was suddenly sharp.
Roderick led the way as the scarlet old woman, and was followed by humpbacks, bulging paunches, cumbrous wigs, Scaramouches, Punches, shrivelled Pantaloons, curtsying women embankt by enormous hoops, and overcanopied with a yard of horsehair, powder, and pomatum, and by every disgusting shape that can be imagined, as if a nightmair had been unrolling her stores.
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