Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considering his heartless treatment of that child in the railway carriage; that he wore three clean shirts a week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made him England's laureate; that he did not like to shave himself; that, however late he might stay out at night, he was always able to use the latch-key; that he wrote Maud; and that he was very fond of baked beans. I thanked Mrs. T. for this valuable information, which I immediately jotted down in my notebook...
...doth the young man of the class that is called Sof om oar array himself in purple and fine linen, and, with a face shining as the sun, save where it is marred by a hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they...