They shaved their heads, and every three days shaved their whole bodies.
The noted inquisitor Sprenger contented himself with shaving the head of the suspected witch or wizard; but his more thoroughgoing colleague Cumanus shaved the whole bodies of forty-seven women before committing them all to the flames.
At Byblus the people shaved their heads in the annual mourning for Adonis.
The preliminary preparation of the patient is the same as for the mastoid operation, only the head should beshaved over a wider area.
The ear and the surrounding parts are carefully cleansed and the head is shaved for a short distance over and beyond the mastoid process.
In operations on the mastoid process, and in those involving a post-auricular incision, the head should also beshaved for at least two or three inches beyond the region of the ear.
The head should be shaved for a space of 2 inches around the mastoid region, twenty-four hours before the operation if possible.
Dermoid patches should be shaved off as close to the cornea as possible; the white area left after their removal can be improved by tattooing.
In women the hair in front of the ear, instead of being shaved off, should be combed forward and plastered down with carbolic soap.
Even then the abdomen, pubes, and vulva can be shaved and thoroughly washed with warm soap and water, and lightly rubbed with ether and cotton wool.
This was a slender smoothly shaved sapling with a small bunch of gnarled roots at one end.
After breakfast the Brethren shaved and then we rested under our tent.
Many of them had the backs of their heads in the centre shaved in a curious manner, like a very broad parting.
His funeral was one of barbaric splendour with kahili bearers, superb feather cloaks, and as was the custom, with bearers who had shaved half their faces and heads.
Geological evidence goes To prove he had never a pan, But he shaved with a shell when he chose.
I have beenshaved a velours to-day--'twas an inspiration!
Around him stood six men, fierce savages, with shaved heads, and half naked bodies.
Sometimes a stupor comes on instead of this delirium, which is relieved by fomenting the shaved head for an hour or two.
Warm fomentations long continued and frequently repeated on the shaved head.
Fomentations of the shaved head for an hour repeatedly.
Ether externally might be frequently applied, and a blister on theshaved head.
Cover the shaved head with tar and suet, and a bladder; this, by keeping the air from the secreted fluid, much contributes to its mildness, and the stimulus of the tar increases its absorption.
Louth (Lincolnshire) boasted a female barber, who is said to haveshaved lightly and neatly, and much better than most men.
I am certain," he said, "that the little humpbacked man who sat opposite me is a barber who shaved me this morning.
The female took a piece of brown paper from a shelf, and with this she held with her left hand the customer's nose, and in an artistic manner shaved him with her right hand.
The first in matchless impudence surpass'd, The next in bigotry, in both the last, The force of nature could no further go, To beard the first she shaved the other two.
That monarch, who daily studied the part of a king, was never seen uncovered but by the barber who shaved him.
At Barnard Castle a wife frequently shaved the customers at the shop kept by her husband, who was often drunk and incapable of doing his work.
At the commencement of the nineteenth century a street near the Strand was the haunt of black women who shaved with ease and dexterity.
On his hearing what she had to say, he observed: "I should like you to keep what I say in your family; but I never shaved myself in all my life, or was ever shaved by any one else.
It was I who was in the barber's shop this morning, and as Farquhar seemed in such a hurry, and the barber was out, I shaved him.
Mr Rawlinson: My advice is, go to the barber and have them shaved off without loss of time.
During his residence at his living in the county of Meath, before he was advanced to the deanery of St Patrick's, Dean Swift was daily shaved by the village barber, who gained his esteem.
Inquiring the reason, it was only vouchsafed to me that someone had shaved off a priest's beard.
Who would countenance the idea of a shaved Christ?
So to my office and did some business, and then home to supper and to bed, after I had by candlelight shaved myself and cut off all my beard clear, which will make my worke a great deal the less in shaving.
His smoothly shaved face was purple from congestion, the bald place on his small head was red.
He had shaved and sheared his way from that ancient trade, in which he had been respected as an able hand, to the equally ancient profession, in which he was cutting a rather ludicrous and lumbering figure.
I washed, changed my clothes, and was shavedin the barber's shop.
He hadshaved recently, and his face, besides being altogether colorless, seemed very wan and pinched.
When a girl had reached this critical period of life, her hair was burned or shaved off close to the head.
The hair of her head is shaved off, and every day the whole of her body is smeared with a red paint (takulla) made from a powdered wood mixed with water.
Thought he to himself, "I had best have my head shaved too, or else people will call me hard-hearted.
Next time he went to the Grocer's to buy sugar, the Grocer noticed his head shaved bare, and the black clothes, so he knew some one must be dead, a relation or a great friend.
He told the news to all the men of his regiment, and they all felt so much sympathy with this soldier that they shaved their heads too.
Then he shaved off every scrap of hair from his head, as the custom was in those parts when anybody died, and gave a funeral feast to all his relations, and dressed himself in black.
Next day on parade, there was the whole regiment shaved to a man.
After inquiry amongst the men, it was found that only one of them could tell anything about St. Anthony, and all he knew was that his friend the Grocer shaved his head in memory of him.
He parried the stroke of one, catching it on the barrel, and dropped on his knee, in the nick of time to evade a sweeping blow from the weapon of the other, which shaved the top clean off his sun-helmet.
It shaved his shoulder almost by a hair's-breadth, only missing his chest because the man stumbled over one of Blanco's soldiers who had just fallen.
I was not sixteen when you were born, and, having had my head shaved during my illness, my hair grew out the bright gold you see it now, instead of the dark brown it had hitherto been.
Yes, a dark chestnut brown, but when my child was born I was ill a long time, and my head was shaved and blistered.
At night they stripped themselves, shaved their heads, and dressed like coolies, and were able to get to the ladder down the city wall just below the mission compound where they could escape into the hills.
He was as clean-shaved and well-groomed as though he had been expecting us for days and the tiffin to which we sat down was as dainty and well served as it could have been in the midst of civilization.
His moustache was shaved down to the very corners of his mouth, only a little mouse-tail sort of arrangement being left on each side, which was twisted upwards and dyed black with infinite skill.
She could by this time make out his goatskin cloak, his high broad cap, the clean shaved face peculiar to the mountain goatherds.
His manner is almost startlingly candid, his speech, what there is of it, is ungarnished with stable slang, his face might belong to an imperfectly shaved archbishop.
There was no doubt of its identity, as it was short of a leg, and half the breast had been shaved away.
The Archdeacon lay luxuriously drinking it until exactly a quarter to seven, then he sprang out of bed, had his cold bath, performed his exercises, and shaved in his little dressing-room.
The whole was concluded by a hog, with his tail shaved and soaped, being let loose among nine peasants; any one of which that could seize him by the queue, and throw him across his shoulders, was to have him for a reward.
