The colours were arranged upon a palette, a large oblong board some two feet by three, with the butterfly inlaid in one corner and sunken boxes for brushes and tubes round the edges.
He could not endure a slovenly palette, or brushes and colours in disorder, though the palette had a raised edge to keep the colour off his sleeve.
His mother was not so pleased when, on her return, she saw the blue and white harmony, for she would have had him put away his brushes on Sunday as once she put away his toys.
Walter Greaves' memories are of impatience in the studio, especially when Carlyle saw Whistler working with small brushes, so that Whistler either worked with big brushes or pretended to.
No doubt this is the portrait in round hat, with paint-brushes in his hand.
At last he stopped and put his brushes slowly down.
Many of hisbrushes were large; they worked with whitewash brushes.
Whistler held his palette andbrushes between himself and us, and there were excuses of models and work.
Mr. Percy Thomas etched Whistler's portrait of himself with hisbrushes as frontispiece.
His long-handled brushes and his manner of placing sitter and canvas were eccentric, though they had been Gainsborough's a century before.
And while you are there, get the brushes from Darius Moreton and Lionel.
I handed Kennedy the brushes I had obtained, but he gave me no opportunity to satisfy my curiosity.
His triumph was over the arch-enemy, his father--who had forbidden him paint and brushes and confiscated the poor little fragments of his mother's work that he had hoarded.
He seized his pallette andbrushes and worked furiously while Mary stood, still flaming with her renunciation.
He had brought his paints and brushes home the night before, and after breakfast Mary helped him stow them away in the Gladstone, showing him smilingly how well she had done his packing.
Then Friend West explained, that all these pictures were painted by little Ben, with no better materials than red and yellow ochre and a piece of indigo, and with brushes made of the black cat’s fur.
However, he was a very ingenious boy, and resolved to manufacture paint-brushes for himself.
This morning my door is covered with opprobrious epithets, and as Mr. Bassett bought paint and brushes at the shop yesterday afternoon, it is doubtless to him I am indebted for them.
The faith that sustains a woman's heart in life does not fail when death brushes her with his finger-tips.
The painter took his brushes and his pallet, and his maulstick.
And when Pilate brushes aside Christ's question, with a sort of impatient contempt, and returns to the charge, 'What hast Thou done?
Brushes and combs should be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked.
Then I hope you're very particular about the brushes you use.
The grain side is wet and worked with brushes and stones until the bloom and loose tannin are removed.
Low-grade glue is used for the manufacture of cheap brushesand for fly-papers.
The tools for painting houses are few in number, and consist chiefly of brushes of different sizes, made of hog's bristles.
The Chinese inscribe their characters with small brushes similar to camel's hair pencils.
The brushes of copper wire which collect the current of the exciter dynamo, and others of similar pattern, must be placed so that the ends press on the commutator as shown in Fig.
And let me say right here, combs and brushes too must be kept as scrupulously clean as the hair itself.
They promptly got stung, of course, and darted in with a chorus of yelps, their pretty brushes drooping in consternation.
When the family emerged on the other side of the thicket, their coats had all resumed their proper colour; for few indeed were the bees that succeeded in resisting the firm and harsh brushes of the juniper.
No fleeting thought ever brushes the other possibility, that these interpretations must appear as they are for good reasons, which would give rise to the further question of what these good reasons might be.
You see at once that it makes little difference whether the watchman brushes a single impulse away from the threshold, or whether he drives it out again after it has already entered the parlor.
The piano, at least, will surely answer with the same tones, even if not with melodies, as soon as by accident one brushes its keys.
Pawed-over heaps of tooth-brushes and combs and packages of shaving-soap.
I could not help contrasting the character of this place with the moist creeks and mountain brushes of the Bunya Bunya country near Moreton Bay, where I had been accustomed to observe the same plant.
Oachi and her father were with him when, for the first time, he got out his comb and military brushes and began grooming his touselled hair.
Oachi watched him, and suddenly, seeing the wondering pleasure in her eyes, he held out the brushes to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
