Word: brush
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...down the hills, the red and black dresses of the riders intermingled, all spurring to gain the nearest place to the hounds. The lead was taken by a lady, whose horse cleared the fences beautifully, and the last one we saw her over, an unusually high brush fence, was left without a visible touch, while the next rider was cast headlong from his saddle. He managed to remount, and the party kept on behind the hounds. Into the woods at the same breakneck pace they went, until they were finally out of sight, and we could only judge of their...
...name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face; but if I've a good stomach and a tooth-brush, it's a deal cleaner than the breath from your beslimed mouth. . . . . A young lady said she would always live single and clean, rather than embrace the stench of the narcotic abomination." But enough. It is well for the writer to consider freedom from the habit of smoking so important...
...like brushing white waistcoats with shoe-brush and blacking...