soap-shine

Updated: May 3, 2025

Ward washed his face in a basin of steaming water, got a can of talcum out of the dish cupboard, and took the soap-shine off his cheeks and chin. He combed his hair before the little mirror trying unavailingly to take the wave out of it with water, and leaving it more crinkly over his temples than it had been in the first place and retied the four-in-hand under the soft collar of his shirt.

B. M. Bower - The Ranch at the Wolverine