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  • Lois shrugged her shoulders, lifted her pretty brows, and tossed the nail-polisher on to the bureau to emphasize her contempt for bridge in all its forms.

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • Whereupon she began experimenting with the nail-polisher from Phil's set.

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • A nail-polisher lay on the looking-glass, hastily thrown down; and that also witnessed to that bodily self-respect which Caroline shared with nearly all those other girls in Thorhaven who would have been in domestic service ten years ago, but now went daily to shops and offices.

    The Privet Hedge J. E. Buckrose 1899

  • York, "said Mrs. Heeny, driving her nail-polisher cheeringly.

    The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

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