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It was as though someone using a brushful of black paint had blocked out all the figures walking around her.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

Si Peters was in the act of applying the first brushful of tar to his back.

The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

"Quelle langue! quelle _langue est la langue_ Américaine!" sniffed the elder Swede, wiping off a brushful of "turps" in her back hair.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

It was just as though a brushful of gray paint had been dashed along that line where the earth and the sky met.

Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

"No, ma'am," David said briefly; and rubbed on another brushful.

The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

This is accomplished by either painting into a thin glaze of color, administered to the whole canvas so that every brushful partakes of some of it; or by modifying the painting subsequently by transparent glazes of the same tone.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

But while he was putting on the last brushful or two, a thought came to him which sent him hurrying into the house in quite a flurry.

The Story of Jessie Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

The virgin surface of the snow lay glittering gold and silver in the early morning sun, with here and there, as a contrast, the long shadows of the limbs of a great oak or elm, cast as though some one had traced its pattern for fun with a brushful of the purest cobalt.

'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894

As a rule, they partook of this without stopping work: they had it on the floor beside them and ate and drank and worked at the same time -- a paint-brushful of white lead in one hand, and a piece of bread and margarine in the other.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

One was the tar-boy, whose business it was to dab a brushful of tar upon any scarlet patch appearing upon a white under-coat where the shears had clipped too close.

Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885