bayrum

After leaving the barber-shop he presented himself, glistening with bayrum, at Jason Royce’s office.

V. Book Two: Enid 1922

Wheeler appeared in the doorway, his Sunday black trousers gallowsed up high over a white shirt, wafting a rich odor of bayrum from his tumbled hair.

XII. Book Two: Enid 1922

Then I read the greasy names on the private bayrum bottles; read the names and noted the numbers on the private shaving-cups in the pigeonholes; studied the stained and damaged cheap prints on the walls, of battles, early Presidents, and voluptuous recumbent sultanas, and the tiresome and everlasting young girl putting her grandfather's spectacles on; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and the distracting parrot that few barbers 'shops are without.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

After leaving the barber-shop he presented himself, glistening with bayrum, at Jason Royce's office.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Mr. Wheeler appeared in the doorway, his Sunday black trousers gallowsed up high over a white shirt, wafting a rich odor of bayrum from his tumbled hair.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Then I read the greasy names on the private bayrum bottles; read the names and noted the numbers on the private shaving-cups in the pigeonholes; studied the stained and damaged cheap prints on the walls, of battles, early Presidents, and voluptuous recumbent sultanas, and the tiresome and everlasting young girl putting her grandfather's spectacles on; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and the distracting parrot that few barbers 'shops are without.

Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

"I thought you were koo-koo sopping my head with bayrum every night."

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