| 单词 | brilliantine |
| 例句 | It was a brilliant dark vermilion, like a ripe orange, and it was plastered back with immense quantities of brilliantine in the same fashion as the Headmaster’s. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of her family was dressed in black or gray, their hair neatly combed, the boys’ heads shimmering with brilliantine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The man in front of me, his hair slick with brilliantine, adjusted his doily, pulled it down to his neck. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She smelled his milky clots and the decay of his teeth and the citrus brilliantine in his hair, as if a grove of lemons lay hidden there. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One man, Diego Ortega, wears a layer of brilliantine so thick that his hair looks like a black patent-leather bathing cap. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z Those memories belong to a distant England, a country of dreamy sunshine and brilliantine. FA Cup finals used to stop the nation, now they don't even finish the season 2013-01-06T22:00:01Z The barber seemed to replace the pot of brilliantine with regret. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z There was his little moustache-brush, and phial of brilliantine to burnish it. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z He has brilliantine on that moustache, and he smells of hair-oil, and I’ll wager, too his hair will show gray at the roots, and I know it is thin on top.” The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z “I think I am looking rather well,” she said to herself, patting a curl or two and giving her gray brilliantine frock a little jerk, as she hurried out again. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Simpkins arrived precisely on time, smelling of Windsor soap and brilliantine. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The doctor's coarse gray hair exhaled a faint scent where brilliantine, ineffectually, had played a minor part, and in some mysterious way it added to the other's annoyance. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z The man had brilliantine on his hair and moustache, and the latter had been dressed with curling irons! The Riddle of the Night The black brilliantine skirt fairly flew over her head, the border of shot in its hem rapping her rudely as it slid to the floor with a thud. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John "He uses the wrong sort of brilliantine," she mentioned. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America She had rubbed brilliantine in to give it the approved gloss. To Love Mrs. Lem's consciousness of the trail on her black brilliantine suddenly failed to support her company manner. The Opened Shutters Detach from the sample of mohair brilliantine a warp thread; a filling thread. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades I noted that the diamond had disappeared from his finger and his curly head looked as if it had been held under a water-faucet and vigorously toweled to lessen the brilliantine gloss. The Thing from the Lake Rémy, after tying a bib around his neck, proceeded to dress his hair and put brilliantine on his moustache. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day There should be about this individual a general atmosphere of brilliantine, clothes and jewelry. Fair Harbor Her mother trailed the brilliantine across the room with a self-command and return of composure truly remarkable, and throwing open the door, met the grave gaze of the guest with unsmiling majesty. The Opened Shutters Materials: Wool fibers, mohair fibers, sample of mohair brilliantine. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Since the middle of the Easter term he had found it necessary to shave his chin and desirable to stimulate the growth upon his upper lip with occasional applications of brilliantine. Priscilla's Spies He asked how I liked his moustache, and I said it was ‘stubbly,’ and he said moral worth was better than brilliantine. A Houseful of Girls In addition, the returning artist smoked Egyptian cigarettes and anointed his generous head of hair with violet brilliantine. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter He pushed aside the blue glass powder-box, the vial of brilliantine and the brushes. A Cigarette-Maker's Romance What word would describe the feel of mohair brilliantine? the appearance? Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Ruffled hair requires, I ween, Something in the brilliantine Or else in the pomatum line. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 The Junior Medical went away with his shoulders erect in his frock-coat, and his heavy brown hair, which would never part properly and had to be persuaded with brilliantine, bristling with happiness. Love Stories Beneath the small round hat, her hair, glossy with brilliantine, was like melted gold in the large loose waves which revealed the rosy tips of her ears. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Now it was brushed about his ears, and it glistened as if from some application of brilliantine or other toilet essence. Evelyn Innes Did you notice that he was very clean, and that his hair was sleeked down with brilliantine? Penny Plain When be became an extensive purchaser of drab segments of fossilized soap, bottles of sticky brilliantine with a chemical odour, and postcards worked with polychromatic silk, the billet began to make inquiries. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 His dress was immaculate; his hair was not so kinky that it couldn't be plastered down with brilliantine, and he perfumed himself copiously. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Nowadays these men no longer use brilliantine on their moustaches, but they have gloss bought from manicure-girls, from masseurs, and from automobile-makers; and their eyes, usually large, are glossy. Alice Adams He had ceased to brilliantine his once sleek hair, and dust and crumbs were allowed to collect in each fold of his clerical waistcoat. It Happened in Egypt He stood in trousers and undershirt, suspenders hanging down, before the small dim mirror in the room where he had the barber chair, pasting his hair down with an odorous brilliantine. The Happy End "If you give me another three francs and I give you two bottles of brilliantine and a cake of vanilla-flavoured soap we'll be straight." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 My looks had undergone a great change, I was sleek and glossy, for one of the maids had used some hair brilliantine belonging to the mistress on my coat. The Nomad of the Nine Lives He liked the way she had her hair arranged, wondered if it was brilliantine that made it glisten so. Flappers and Philosophers His thin hair, white as cotton wool, was touched with brilliantine, and his handsome face, deeply lined and wrinkled, was as closely shaved as an actor's after three o'clock. Who Cares? a story of adolescence The scent of brilliantine on his whiskers struck him as particularly pleasant in the fresh air. Anna Karenina His white hair glistened with brilliantine, and there was a gardenia in his buttonhole. Who Cares? a story of adolescence |
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