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Usage examples of barbers.

Distant cities asked the reason of that appearance, and the cunning fakir interpreted it, and the fervent dervish expounded from it, and messengers flew from gate to gate and from land to land in exultation, and barbers hid their heads, and were friendly with the fox in his earth, because of that light.

Know, then, that among this people there is great reverence for the growing of hair, and he that is hairiest is honoured most, wherefore are barbers creatures of especial abhorrence, and of a surety flourish not.

He wonders idly why some barbers rely on scissors while others prefer electric cutters, but he cannot be bothered to ask.

Altogether overgrown as he was with the rankest beard, whiskers and locks, ten barbers could not have made a job of him.

Horace, in one of his epistles, makes honourable mention of the Roman barbers in the same light.

Pearl spent hours wandering these streets, overhearing the talk of ordinary people, and watching the barbers, herbal doctors, food vendors, carpenters, and slaves go about their business.

He could pass through the Street of the Barbers and be shaved before he went to the house where the woman waited for him.

All down the street in a long line the barbers stood behind their small stalls, and Wang Lung went to the furthest one and sat down upon the stool and motioned to the barber who stood chattering to his neighbor.

Have I not castigated barbers, and brought barbercraft to degradation, so that no youth is taught to exercise it?

Sovereign of Barbers, who had mastered an Event, and become the benefactor of his craft and of his kind.