Use brush in a sentence
Sentences starting with brush
- Brush Bascom, for the Committee. [9]
- Brush those baperss off of that jair. [8]
- Brush and I--I may as well be plain about it, Mr. Crewe--have taken a liking to you. [9]
- Brush and Jake Botcher are bidding high down-stairs, and the quotation on delegates has gone up ten points in ten minutes. [9]
Sentences ending with brush
- Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. [5]
- Nothing stirred except the gentle wave of the tips of the brush. [13]
- He recognized every stroke of the brush. [10]
- There was a sound of footsteps and crackling of brush. [11]
- Jethro postponed two political trips of no small importance to be present at the painting of that picture, and he would sit silently by the hour in a corner of the shed watching every stroke of the brush. [9]
- Darkness shut him out from my view in less than a minute, and within the next minute I lost the road and got to wandering in the sage brush. [5]
- There were twenty of us, and we were resistless, weren't we, Brush? [9]
- See the face of her, with the little snappin' eyes an' the yellow beak of a nose, an' the sunset in her cheeks that's put on wid a painter's brush! [11]
- True, he did it, but to persuade him the poor woman sacrificed half the fortune her father had earned by his brush. [10]
- Ain't that about it, Brush? [9]
Sentences containing brush two or more times
- A Brush Bascom, with a better education and more brains, but a Brush Bascom--with the brains prostituted. [9]
- She shall brush her hair with the ivory brush by Sunday morning. [11]
More example sentences with the word brush in them
- My brush and your stylus will earn us more in no time. [10]
- He perceived that you were a man of ability, sir--" "And that was just the reason," said the Honourable Brush, "that he couldn't make you more useful just now. [9]
- Sketching the outlines with a few hasty strokes, he seized the brush, and while hurriedly guiding it and mixing the colors, he saw in fancy Costa standing before him, asking him to paint his portrait. [10]
- By the street windows sat the Honourable Brush Bascom, sphinx-like, absorbing wisdom and clouds of cigar smoke which emanated from the Honourable Nat Billings. [9]
- From to-morrow we will work together again, daily, and you will win more glorious victories with the brush than with the sword. [10]
- And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
- The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
- And--stranger still!--he had turned from these glimpses to the reports of the Honourable Brush Bascom and his associates with a distaste he had never felt before. [9]
- He was coming toward me to say: "Richard, you are forgiven," and to brush his eyes with his ruffles. [9]
- Suddenly he said to himself, as he ran a brush around his coat-collar: "'Pon my soul, I forgot; this is my wedding day!--the great day in a man's life, the immense event, after which comes steady happiness or the devil to pay. [11]
- I ran away to help gather brush for a fire. [9]
- He penetrated it to find a considerable stream of water and great half-submerged mounds of brush and sticks, and all about him were old and new gnawed circles at the base of the cottonwoods. [13]
- They had been thus occupied for some time when Selene at last raised her head and was about to take up her brush again. [10]
- My idea is this: Make a scrap-book with leaves veneered or coated with gum-stickum of some kind; wet the page with sponge, brush, rag or tongue, and dab on your scraps like postage stamps. [5]
- I don't hear the dogs and horses yet; you've got time to crowd through the brush and get up the crick a little ways; then you take to the water and wade down to me and get in--that'll throw the dogs off the scent. [5]
- I now saw that there were shreds of moss and dry leaves in the young woman's hair and bid her brush them out. [10]
- Mr. Tooting discovers that the room is occupied by the Honourable Brush Bascom; Mr. Tooting learns with indignation that certain of these guests of Mr. Bascom's are delegates pledged to Mr. Crewe, whereupon he rushes back to the bridal suite to report to his chief. [9]
- Will you believe that I saw Number Five, with a sweet, approving smile on her face all the time, brush her cheek with her hand-kerchief? [6]
- The first objects that caught Stephen's attention were the grizzly gray eye brows, which seemed as so much brush to mark the fire of the deep-set battery of the eyes. [9]
- There were indeed tears in her eyes, and drawing out her handkerchief to brush them away, she happened to let it fall. [12]
- I have a teacher now, and my enthusiasm continually and tumultuously grows, as I learn to use with more and more facility the pencil, brush, and graver. [5]
- The brush may still deal freely with any subject; however revolting or indelicate. [5]
- The brush may still deal freely with any subject, however revolting or indelicate. [5]
- Then he would stand and look with all his eyes; and a proud light would flash from them, and his nostrils would inflate like a war-horse's, and I knew he was longing for a brush with them. [5]
- He approached as softly as he could, and advancing so near the wall as to brush the whitened ivy with his dress, listened. [12]
- Well, I've been so mad for two days I couldn't find my way to town--been wandering around in the brush in a starving condition--got anything here to drink, General? [5]
- The creature only sneezed, and passed its hand over its eyes as if to brush away a fly. [10]
- On the landing she stops to brush her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
- None but a Seleukus can afford to employ so costly a brush as your brother's is--thank the Muses! [10]
- Then he himself seized the little bell, rang it, and permitted the valet Adrian to brush his hair and make the necessary changes in his dress. [10]
- He went away, seeming to understand, and got out some of my clothes and began to brush them. [5]
- Then came a rare run for five sweet miles--down a long valley--over quick-set hedges, with stiffish streams--another hill--a great combe-- a lovely valley stretching out--a swerve to the right--over a gate-- and the brush got at a farmhouse door. [11]
- They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. [5]
- One could pick out the Indian section of the village, because not far from it was the Indian graveyard, with its scaffolding of poles and brush and its offerings for the dead. [11]
- When he was out of sight she lifted her head, gave her eyes a vigorous brush with her checked apron, and went back to her washing. [9]
- That night, when our chilled feet could bear no more, we sought out a patch of raised ground a little firmer than a quagmire, and heaped up the beginnings of a fire with such brush as could be made to burn, robbing the naked thickets. [9]
- Janet's eyes fell on the bureau, marked the absence of several knick-knacks, including a comb and brush, and with a sudden sickness of apprehension she darted to the wardrobe and flung open the doors. [9]
- Here, under cover of the tall brush, he turned west and ran on to the place where he had hidden his rifle. [13]
- One more stroke of the brush is needed before the stage will be ready for the chief characters and the leading circumstances to which the reader's attention is invited. [6]
- The agate eyes of Mr. Brush Bascom flashed from the audience, and Mr. Nat Billings bustled forward to shake Austen's hand. [9]
- On the porch of his home in Edmundton, smoking cigars, little heeding the rising of the waters; receiving visits from the Honourables Brush Bascom, Nat Billings, and Jacob Botcher, and signing cheques to the order of these gentlemen for necessary expenses. [9]
- There was calling of dogs, breaking down of brush, and firing of guns. [4]
- But Barine would not leave her lover's couch, and had just loosed her hair to brush it again and fasten the thick, fair braids around her head, when, two hours after midnight, some one knocked loudly on the window shutters. [10]
- If you are not decanted off from yourself every few days or weeks, you will think it sacrilege to brush a cobweb from your cork by and by. [6]
- A rap--three times--of no uncertain quality was heard at the door, and Mr. Brush Bascom hastened to open it. [9]
- The impulse that moved his brush was no longer the divine pleasure in creation of former days, but dread of failure, and ardent, daily increasing love for Isabella. [10]
- I'll bet the most surprised man in the State to-night, next to Brush Bascom, is young Tom Gaylord. [9]
- Its coming on most frequently at the season when the brush fires which are consuming the dead branches, and withered leaves, and all the refuse of vegetation are sending up their smoke is suggestive. [6]
- Mr. Carvel had many a brush with the mutinous first lieutenant Simpson. [9]
- At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. [4]
- The Peninsula is lofty, rocky, and densely clothed with scrub, or brush, or both. [5]
- There is a little plateau on the side of the East Mountain in Rivervale, where there used to stand a shack of a cabin, with a wild sort of garden-patch about it, a tumble-down root fence, all in the midst of brush and briers. [4]
- And when at length the brush crackled and the flames caught the logs, three of the mightiest chiefs arose. [9]
- On they came, leaping logs and brush and ditches, until one of them pulled up, yelling madly, at the very door, the foam-flecked sides of his horse moving with quick heaves. [9]
- Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. [5]
- Hear me prove it; observe how simple a fact can brush out of existence this witless lie. [5]
- Then I followed it to the sorting tables and saw the men deftly and swiftly spread it out and brush it about and seize the diamonds as they showed up. [5]
- Hearing his dog in the thicket, I rushed through the brush, and came in sight of the hunter as he was retreating down the road. [4]
- The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field. [2]
- While he was in the height of this engagement, perhaps the horn would be blown from the back porch, reminding him that it was time to quit cutting brush and go for the cows. [4]
- They would stay in no road, no path; they broke out through the brush on all sides, and flowed away in all directions, over rocks, and hills, and the roughest places they could find. [5]
- He had been in many an enterprise, many a brush with O'Ryan, and his friendship would bear any strain. [11]
- The rain descended in floods on the distracted city, and the great river rose and flung brush from Minnesota forests high up on the stones of the levee. [9]
- I know what I'm talkin' about, and I tell you that Ridout and Jake Botcher and Brush Bascom haven't any more notion of lettin' your bills out of committee than they have Gaylord's. [9]
- It was as if an artist saw a young genius use a brush on canvas for a moment; a swordsman watch an unknown master of the sword. [11]
- She watched her husband till he almost viciously thrust aside the bushes staying his progress, and broke into the space by the pear-tree where Carnac sat with palette and brush, gazing at the distant roofs on which the sun was leaving its last kiss. [11]
- Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
- The painter had his share of the rapture; he had his six glimpses, and they smote him with waves of pleasure that assaulted him, beat upon him, washed over him deliciously, and drowned out all consciousness of what he was doing with his brush. [5]
- While doing so, his fingers might touch hers, perhaps her hair might brush against his. [10]
- He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. [5]
- Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. [5]
- No sooner had his bills been assigned to the careful and just consideration of the committees in charge of the Honourable Brush Bascom, Mr. Botcher, and others than Mr. Crewe desired of each a day for a hearing. [9]
- The simple light here, if one could ever represent it by pen, pencil, or brush, would draw the world hither to bathe in it. [4]
- That fancy past, he opened an old chest, took out some clothes as fondly as if they had been living things, and began to smooth and brush them with his hand. [12]
- In a moment he came back, bearing in his arms a mirror, a bottle of hair-oil, a couple of bottles of perfume, a comb and brush, some variegated bath towels, and an American flag. [11]
- She had beautiful hair, and what pride she had in using this brush! [11]
- After the artist had promised not to speak of departure during the next few days, Philip began to paint a saint, which Moor had sketched, but at the end of half an hour he threw down his brush. [10]
- No man she had ever seen had been so at home in the world of men, and also at home in the secluded field of the chisel and the brush as Carnac. [11]
- Never had he guided the brush so joyously; in painting this picture he only wished to give, to give--give his beloved father the best he could accomplish, so he succeeded. [10]
- Slightly snorting and grunting, he presented now his back and now his plump hairy chest to the brush with which his valet was rubbing him down. [2]
- The brisk, cheery greeting of the Honourable Brush Bascom fared no better, but Mr. Bascom was a philosopher, and did not disturb the great when their minds were revolving on national affairs and the welfare of humanity in general. [9]
- Mr. Brush, Bascom got one likewise. [9]
- Mr. Pardriff was getting into a buggy to go--somewhere--when he chanced to meet the Honourable Brush Bascom, and the buggy was sent back to the livery-stable. [9]
- And continuous swerving from aisle to aisle between the brush, and leaping little washes and mounds of the pack-rats, and breaking through sage, made rough riding. [13]
- The dim, shrouded form lying motionless on the couch before him, with a heavy wreath of lotus-flowers and white roses encircling it from head to foot, was the subject for his brush. [10]
- It was impossible for the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher to have Mr. Crewe sitting between them and not conceive a strong affection for him. [9]
- The king cared for nothing about him, except his brush. [10]
- This is the first sweep of the brush, to clear the hearth of the skepticism and incredulity which must be got out of the way before we can begin to tell and to listen in peace with ourselves and each other. [6]
- How rapidly and firmly the master guided his brush! [10]
- In front of every place of sepulcher stands a small urn for water, with a brush hanging by, with which to sprinkle the flowers. [4]
- It had not entered his mind to create a completed work of art, but the impetuosity of youth, revelling in good fortune, had guided his brush. [10]
- Hain't I seen 'em run their dirty politics there under Brush Bascom for the last twenty-five years? [9]
- We then got down on our hands and knees and continued to keep a sharp eye on the track, and so shadowed it into the brush. [5]
- These thoughts had darted with the speed of lightning through the artist's mind, and still lingered there as, respectfully declining to take the palette, he replied "I beseech you, Sire, keep the brush and colors, and correct what you dislike. [10]
- A common bone comb lay near the glass, and beside it a beautiful brush with an ivory back and handle. [11]
- Any real creation, by pen or brush or chisel, must express the artist and be made in independence of the demands of a vague public. [4]
- Death in the brush, death in the tree-top, death from the river-bank. [11]
- But the Honourable Brush was not troubled, and had presented Mr. Tooting with a cigar. [9]
- A pile of brush underlain by ashes was by, and I crept into that. [9]
- As for the brush of 1812, "we did not think much about that"; and everybody knows that the Mexican business did not concern us much, except in its political relations. [6]
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