clothes-brushes

In the dimly lit hall there stood a vast hallstand with some tricky inlaid ivory, two clothes-brushes and a Soviet officer's peaked hat.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

We should want to brush our clothes, but all the clothes-brushes would be so huge that we could not lay hold of them nor sustain their weight; and a clothes-brush would be handed to us if we wanted to brush our nails.

Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

The idea of Percival telling me to eat a lemon-ice with an ice-pick, and 'Oh, why don't the flesh-brushes wear nice, proper clothes-brushes!' and be sure and hammer my nails good and hard after I get them manicured.

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Women don't know what fellows need, and always must put in a lot of stiff shirts and clean handkerchiefs and clothes-brushes and pots of cold cream.

Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

He is tall, and has eyebrows like clothes-brushes, and he scowls fit to make you run and hide under the bed.

Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

The very men whom he met after his arrival in the streets of Southampton, all looked as if they had been born with hat-brushes and clothes-brushes in their hands.

James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876

He had taken it haphazard from the tattered collection of cheap editions which he carried about with him in his wanderings, ignominiously stuffed into the bottom of a portmanteau, amongst boots and clothes-brushes and disabled razors.

Birds of Prey 1875

It was the odor of hogs going up to the Ohio heavens — of hogs in a state of transit from hoggish nature to clothes-brushes, saddles, sausages, and lard.

North America 1862

'With Mark Gardner, and the king of the clothes-brushes, and all their train, in moustaches and parti-coloured parasols!' cried Percy.

Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Women don't know what fellows need, and always must put in a lot of stiff shirts and clean handkerchiefs and clothes-brushes and pots of cold cream.

Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860