1 She crouched in her chair as she imagined men talking of her, thick-voiced, obscene, in barber shops and the tobacco-stinking pool parlor.
2 They all pounded the floor of the barn in old-fashioned square dances, swinging their partners, skipping, laughing, under the incantations of Del Snafflin the barber, who fiddled and called the figures.
3 Dr. Westlake, Sam Clark, Nat Hicks, and Del Snafflin were talking in Del's barber shop.
4 Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money.
5 Three-fourths black; barber and waiter; from Kentucky; nineteen years free; paid for self and family over three thousand dollars; deacon in the Baptist church.
6 My head feels deliciously light and cool, and the barber said I could soon have a curly crop, which will be boyish, becoming, and easy to keep in order.
7 In a barber's window I saw tails of hair with the prices marked, and one black tail, not so thick as mine, was forty dollars.
8 I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair.
9 In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 10 As he had twenty times touched at Leghorn, he remembered a barber in St. Ferdinand Street; he went there to have his beard and hair cut.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 11 The barber gazed in amazement at this man with the long, thick and black hair and beard, which gave his head the appearance of one of Titian's portraits.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 12 The Leghorn barber said nothing and went to work.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 13 Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.
14 "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
15 Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.