Three days after his return from the fight the warrior shaves his head.
Among the Ja-luo, a warrior who has slain an enemy not only shaves his hair, but, after entering the village, prepares a big feast to propitiate the man he has killed so that his ghost may not give trouble.
A Jen Kurumba shaves like the ryots, leaving a tuft behind, or clips or crops it, with a curly or bushy growth to protect the head from heat and cold.
I like a man who shaves (next to one who does n't shave) to satisfy his own conscience, and not for display, and who dresses as neatly at home as he does anywhere.
It is also a sheep, after the sacrifice of which the pilgrim shaves his head.
It is a thing that talks and shaves, and shaves and talks, and talks and shaves again; the true immutable that never varies, but comes down from age to age like a magpie, the same busy chattering thing that its fathers were before it.
These shaves were confirmed at the small bush township, where we left the coach, by the solitary trooper in charge there, who informed my companion that the sergeant and other troopers were away on patrol after this bounder.
All along the road there were plenty ofshaves (rumours) of bushrangers, but for three days we never saw one.
Sir Garnet Wolseley was on his way up country, so were strong reinforcements, and the atmosphere was thick with shaves as to what was going to happen.
He shaves the entire face and neck, not omitting even the lobes of the ear, the forehead, and nose.
The Japanese tonsorial artist shaves without the aid of soap, merely wetting the face by dipping his fingers in a bowl of warm water.
The advantages, indeed, seem to be wholly with the man who shaves himself.
Thus in point of time, money and health, the man whoshaves himself is a decided gainer.
Irritation of the Skin--Its Cause and Prevention 78 Shaving Made Easy What the Man Who Shaves Ought to Know I.
A man under the hands of a barber surgeon, who shaves and lets blood at the same time, by cutting at every stroke of his razor.
A Man under the Hands of a Barber-Surgeon, who shaves and lets Blood at the same Time, by cutting at every Stroke of his Razor.
I've had much nearer shaves a dozen times before and escaped scot-free.
He bathes and shaves every morning and takes special care that his linen is clean and that his shoes are polished.
In the Madras Census Report, 1891, Velakkattalavan is said to be "the name in South Malabar of the caste that shaves Nayars and higher castes.
The barber also shaves the two friends of the bridegroom (changathis), and receives a fanam and the rice for his trouble.
On the occasion of the marriage ceremony, the barber firstshaves the bridegroom's head, leaving the usual forelock on the crown, which is never cut.
Nature generally denies him beard, so he shaves what a sailor would term the fore and after part of his head.
He shaves with an instrument resembling a butcher's cleaver in miniature.
He shaves his head and upper lip Shafei-fashion, and his beard is represented by a ragged tuft of red-stained hair on each side of his chin.
I've had the experience before of getting bum shaves by trying to save a penny by pretending to myself that a wornout blade was still sharp enough, when it obviously couldn't be.
Funny thing," he remarked to Bill at lunch, "sometimes you get a blade thatshaves a lot better.
Two or three shaves later, it still seemed as sharp as ever, or almost so.
Five shaves later, he cut himself under the chin with the second blade, although he was drawing it as gently through his soaped beard as if it were only his second shave with it, or at most his third.
He then speaks of the happiness of his wedded life; he shaves and sings most joyfully.
The barber shaves the bridegroom before the wedding ceremony.
They have barbers of their own, of whom the Mannan shaves the men, and the Mannathi the women.
A barber then shaves the chin and forehead of the bridegroom, the hair border being in the form of a broken pointed arch converging upwards.
It is very probable that shaves of stone were formerly used, though we obtained no genuine specimens.
The barber who shaves Europeans must not be a caste barber, but is either a Muhammadan or a non-caste man.
At the present day, however, the barber is called in, and shaves the head, leaving one lock or more according to local custom.
This ceremony concluded, they repair to a stream, where a member of the bereaved family shaves a Toreya partially or completely.
A woman, whether unmarried or widowed, who shaves her hair, will go to the hell called Rauravam.
And the barber, as heshaves you, will tell how, in days before the bridge was built, the channel became unfordable during a north-east monsoon flood.
The Hindu (except the Rajput) shaves his head, leaving only a top-knot on the point of the skull.
He shaves the face (except the eye-brows) and his body.
Rosita, can you speak thus of Ramon, who shaves me for nothing, and of Marisalada, whom ministers and generals have applauded, and who has been so good as to put a cockade on my hat?
He shaves me for my good appearances, and to thwart his interests, Maria, would be, on my part, a bad action.
A small silver razor is made specially for the occasion, costing a rupee and a quarter, and the barber first touches the child's hair with this and then shaves it ceremoniously with his own razor.
When a Muhammadan wears a beard he must have hair in the centre of his chin, whereas a Hindu shaves this part.
He shaves the faces, heads and armpits of his customers, and cuts the nails of both their hands and feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
