He saw the barber busy at his unseasonable task by the light of the moon and, cursing the omen which resembled the last offering of a crew before shipwreck, he threw himself into his bunk.
It was during this half that Sir Robert Wilson, having caught sight of some straggling gray hairs beneath La Valette’s wig, produced a pair of scissors and deftly acted as barber in removing them.
The prisonbarber was ordered to shave the culprit’s head, leaving one lock only upon the crown.
She came in here; why I don't know, and no doubt was full of the story about the Barber appearing in the library," said Lady Dashwood.
But how the Barber should have obtained the information--the good God only knows.
What really excited Louise was the story that the Barber came to warn Wardens of an approaching disaster.
When that man was Warden, the college barber went and cut his throat in the Warden's Library.
Not being an adept in the use of that refractory language which Young Japan would so like to flatten out and plane down for vernacular use, the Japanese barber is not always happy in executing the English legend for his sign-board.
Every little while the small barber goes out to the door-steps to pull at the ears of a dog that lies asleep on the side-walk, and then back again to brush with renewed vigor.
The shop doors are all open, and through one of them is discovered a man with a lathered face, the sunshine lying half way up his lap, a white barber holding his nose, and a small black one whisking about the room with a brush.
Nicholas, the barber of the village in which Don Quixote lived.
Silent Man= (The), the barber of Bagdad, the greatest chatterbox that ever lived.
Tennyson makes the barber a woman: No livelier than the dame That whispered “Asses’ ears” among the sedge.
Razor=, a barber who could “think of nothing but old England.
It was one of the romances of Don Quixote’s library condemned by the priest and barber of the village to be burnt.
In a double sense Damie was doomed to be scratched that day; for that very evening Barefoot had the barber come and shave off his wild beard, and give him the smooth face that was the fashion of the country.
I would as soon agree with mybarber as differ from him; and why should I make a point of reversing the sentence of the Whitechapel orders?
Dip it in the ocean,' as Sterne's barber says of the buckle, 'and it will stand!
Outside, at the street corner, an itinerant barber was shaving the head of a true believer, whose tray of gaudy sweetstuff lay on the ground beside him whilst he submitted to the operation.
Reluctantly he drew forth the required sum and begged the offended barber take his money.
Money that should have repaid the services of his barber, had been diverted into the rapacious purse of the new astrologer; and the barber was wrathful, even vindictive, in consequence.
Bipin sat in the shade of a pillar endeavoring to propitiate the barber with compliments, while a blunt razor was unmercifully scraped back and forth over his head.
In a moment the pride of the barber forsook him, and he equivocated, saying, 'O Queen!
We of the City of Oolb take our fashions from them of the City of Shagpat, and it is but yesterday that I bastinadoed a barber that strayed among us.
When Shibli Bagarag saw these, the uses of the barber rushed upon his mind, and desire to sway the tackle pushed him forward and agitated him, so that he could not keep his hands from them.
Nevertheless here the barber is scorned, the grower of crops held in amazing reverence.
Know me nephew of the renowned Baba Mustapha, chief barberto the Court of Persia.
Then the yearning of the Barber seized Shibli Bagarag, and desire to shear Shagpat was as a mighty overwhelming wave in his bosom, and he shouted, 'The Sword of Aklis!
Truly now, if it be in man to shave Shagpat, the hand of thisbarber will do it!
In barber shops they had lutes and virginals wherewith the gentlemen might amuse themselves while awaiting their turn.
O, for a barber at the time of need, Or one of these that dresses periwigs, To deck my grey head with a youthful hair!
Perhaps this was because Nash had previously employed it, or it might be supposed that the barber would have been unacquainted with it.
Barber had entered Johnson's service in 1752 (ante, i.
Out of many letters which Mr. Barber received from his master, he has preserved three, which he kindly gave me, and which I shall insert according to their dates.
As we strikes the hotel barber shop I hangs up on the end of the cigar counter while Daggett looks around for the young woman who'd put the chappy polish on his nails.
She was still lookin' puzzled, though, as we put her into the cab and started her back to the barber shop.
In Which Mr. Moore the Barber Arrives, and the Medical Gentlemen Lock The Door.
Having finished his repast, he made a motion to be shaved, and a barber being present, his request was complied with, to the great admiration of his countrymen, who laughed and exclaimed at the operation.
Many of them now consented to be shaved by a barber whom we had purposely brought over.
This office of barber is one of the most popular in the regiment; and the person who holds it is not a little proud of the honor.
It sometimes happens that the barber of a regiment is a genuine barber, who knows his trade, and who practiced it with honor before he became a soldier.
The barber is responsible for the heads of the entire company.
On another occasion, during a campaign, a barber in one of the regiments of the line was summoned to shave the commander-in-chief.
During a campaign, a barber becomes a soldier like the others, for then both hair and beard are neglected.
Barbers are the heroes of a host of army legends; there is, first, the story of Barber Plumepate, who belonged to a cavalry regiment.
Moreover, the barber is a conscientious man, and if he occasionally happens to slice off an ear, he always takes the greatest possible pains to restore it to its rightful owner.
His appearance in local journalism had created a new tension in the village and his appearance now in the barbershop created tension there.
He made another sound that was quite a grunt as he sank into the red plush barber chair of Heinie Schultz.
The barberentered with a hesitating but cheerful step: he had a round, jovial face.
He was getting shaved by a lady barber when a mouse ran across the floor.
A priest went to a barber shop conducted by one of his Irish parishioners to get a shave.
He observed the barber was suffering from a recent celebration, but decided to take a chance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
