Newly hairless

Usage examples of shaven.

One first thought of the woman as a girl, but appreciation of her ample breasts brought realisation that she was in fact a shaven woman.

A horrid memory of Mastrovin came to his mind, the face which had glowered on him in the room in the Portaway Hydropathic, the face which he had seen distorted with fury in the library of Castle Gay--the heavy shaven chin, the lowering brows, the small penetrating eyes--the face which Red Davie had described as that of a maker of revolutions.

Freshly roused from his bunk the Dutchman wore no wig on his shaven head but his fine pointed moustaches showed him to be a man of fashion.

Old women with shaven heads went by, wrapped from armpit to ankle in black sarongs called sampots, with spotless white blouses.

As was his usual wont, Faelan was immaculately turned out, his black habit neatly brushed, his cowled scapular falling in precise folds, his tonsure gleaming newly shaven on his bowed head.

Elbryan was expected to bathe daily, to keep his clothing clean, and since his beard was splotchy and uneven, not yet that of a man, to keep his face clean shaven.

A shaven space of lawn one soft May evening, the wellremembered grove of lilacs at Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the game but with much real interest in the pellets as they run slowly forward over the sward or collide and stop, one by its fellow, with a brief alert shock.

The women had their haire annointed and their heads covered with linnen : but the men had their crownes shaven, which were the terrene stars of the goddesse, holding in their hand instruments of brasse, silver and gold, which rendered a pleasant sound.

Two wore red robes, had shaven skulls, like the Atlantean priest he had seen on board the ship, and were servants of this foul god.

He was wiry but bullnecked, with a shaven head and a face seamed with tiny scars.

His head was shaven and always capped by an outrageous wide-brimmed hat feathering the gigantic plume of a diatryma bird.

Naked babies, whose shaven heads made a warm resting-place for flies, stared at Domini with a lustrous vacancy of expression.

Their thighs and shaven groins and the nether lips that flaccidly protruded there were all mucously slimy.

Not only the generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay smooth-felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and solemn affair.

The Meereenese had gathered beneath the eastern windows, in a throng of shaven pates and hairy horns and hands and spirals.