In the morning this man opened one of these windows, and stood before it half-dressed, in full view of the street, brushing his hair for the entertainment of the passers-by.
Now judge what my feelings must have been to see there Captain Dugald in his shirt-sleeves, standing before one of the front windows deliberately brushing his hair, in the full view of all the passengers of the street below.
Find some way of brushingthat up again for me in five secs, and make it spin out all over those four damned white sheets that we've got to mucky.
The young women brushing away the flies touched and turned the fast-blackening hands of the corpse to note the rapid changes.
Most of these came and went without function, but day and night two young women sat or stood beside the corpse always brushing away the flies which sought to gather at its nostrils.
He left the Savoy without having any dinner; he went back to his rooms, where the imperturbable Driver was brushing and refolding his master's clothes.
Nothing but soft brushing gravel and a gate which shuts with a click.
Herr Altgelt's violin is set In tune to the slow, sweeping bows, and retreats and advances, To curtsies brushing the waxen floor as the Court dances.
And each minute flows bybrushing against her, shearing off another and another petal.
She awoke with the sun pouring in at the window and the sounds of vigorous brushing in the yard beneath.
He's downstairs brushing the mud off," she said, in a low voice.
With his brushing step he crossed the smooth tiles towards one of the chests that was filled with parchments.
Perhaps with a solemn air he takes a pinch of snuff, brushing off with care the grains that might mar the whiteness of his linen.
So in she goes, between the platform and the column overhead, pushing first her head, then brushing her back against the stigma just below the end of the thick column that almost closes the passage.
Energetic prying admits first his head, then he squeezes his body through, brushing past the stamens as he finally disappears inside.
One fist unclosed, and the open palm swept across his eyes as thoughbrushing away cobwebs.
Illustration: A sea of moving heads and sterns, All round them, brushing coat and dress.
And I cannot get there in less than an hour or more,' muttered Nancy: brushing swiftly past him, and gliding rapidly down the street.
I'll come on,' replied the Dodger, brushinghis hat with the palm of his hand.
Under this wall Wogan waited until a clock struck ten, and while the clock was still striking he heard on the other side of the wall the brushing of footsteps amongst leaves and grass.
He could even hear them whispering and the brushing of their feet.
She bent over him, as he leaned against her, her soft hands slowly stroking his forehead with touch as light as thebrushing of a rose-leaf.
She had a vision of Claudius the physician brushing by her half-open door.
But she heard Charnock move round the table towards her, and she dared not risk the touch of his hand, or so much as the brushing of his coat against her dress.
And Sylvia certainly was past; mistress of the difficult art of brushing hair without tangling and pulling it, thereby tearing one's nerves to shreds--as the nurse did.
Like most Western boys who go East to college, he had acquired the habit of careful pressing and brushing and combing; his lean face had a certain distinction, and he was unfailingly courteous and well-mannered.
Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.
A few deep breaths, the brushing of one forearm and then the other across his forehead and cheeks, and again he grasped the tool.
She merely looked steadily at him for a moment, and then, brushing quickly at her eyes, she rose and turned into the house.
The clerk approached, vigorously brushingthe counters with a turkey wing.
She was attired in a flowered kimono and was in the act of brushing her mouse-colored hair.
Polly was curled up on the bed brushing her hair, and Lois was sitting on the window seat, her elbow on her knee and her chin cradled in her hand.
The German officer agreed instantly, Tugendheim making faces thus and brushing his mustache more fiercely upward.
There was no arguing Banjo out of it, no brushing the little man aside.
Nola suspended her brushing and looked at Frances curiously, a deeper color rising and spreading in her animated face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brushing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: contingent; glancing; grazing; meeting; rubbing; tangential; touching
