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"Take that back," she ordered, pointing a beautifully manicured hand at a dish just placed before her.
The manicuring would have to be finished at her table, and he would be able to talk to her without the barber listening.
It will keep the nails as shiny as when first manicured, harmless to apply and lasts for days.
If they had had their way, I'd been out manicuring people's nails and washing heads for a living.
Up until now the hands have given you no great concern one way or the other, but some day you wake to the realization that you need to be manicured.
Manicuring as a public profession is a comparatively recent development of our civilization.
I could see her delicately manicured fingers, the blue veins at the back of her hands, as she wrote, slowly and apparently without hesitation.
One could be "manicured" in the stroll you are taking every ten minutes or so, if one wished.
She had a little dressmaker and a little hair woman and a little manicure and a little florist, and so forth.
Jeff said he'd also doll up in his dress suit and get shaved and manicured and everything, so he'd look like one in my own walk of life.
Her left hand was soft and plump and cool, and it was covered with rings that gave flashes and sparkles of light when she moved, and her nails were manicured to a degree not often seen in Dry Lake.
He gathered that many officers habitually were manicured by her, many of them in their own rooms.
I've been too busy shopping to be in much; and Julie, I hope you notice my hands: I've had a special manicure in preparation for you.
That there was no pitch under his nails was not because he had manicured diligently, but because it had not been his luck to run across any pitch.
Her eyes filled with tears, which she angrily dried with a very dirty handkerchief that looked strangely out of keeping in the manicured hands.
Asked Lloyd, one afternoon, of the girls who were sitting in her room, manicuring their nails.
She was taking the keenest interest in the manicure's progress, only lifting her eyes occasionally to survey herself with satisfaction in the mirror opposite.
If I were going to disguise myself as a Berliner, I should not be content to shave my head and wear a bowler hat with a morning coat and get my nails manicured pink.
The trouble was that my advertisement went into a column headed "Business Personals," along with a lot of manicure and massage advertising.
She doesn't get up till noon, and has her masseuse for an hour every morning, her manicure and her mental science visitor every other day, and her face steamed three times a week!
Exclaimed Matthew, with real astonishment, as he sat down on his heels and took the two treasures into his highly manicured hands.
She smiled, for the first time that whole afternoon, and patted his cheek with one manicured hand.
It was a well-formed, manicured hand that seemed to reach under his skull, carefully feeling its way through the myriad convolutions where thought resides.
A midwife had lived on the second floor, a dressmaker and a manicure and chiropodist on the third, and two coachmen and their families in the attics.
Of course, I know as well as if you told me, how she rushes a chap, and writes silly notes, manicures his nails, and gives him flowers and cigarettes.
I found McKnight at the Incubator, with his coat off, working with enthusiasm and a manicure file over the horn of his auto.
She had been about to turn off at a corner, to carry out her intention of seeking employment in one of the many manicure parlors on a certain street.
Eleven o'clock usually found Cora at the manicure's, or the dressmaker's, or shopping, or telephoning luncheon arrangements with one of the Crowd.
At ten or eleven in the morning you saw them issue forth, or you saw "little" manicures going in.
The Little Woman laughed and picked up the cards, evening their edges with sensitive fingers that had not been manicured so beautifully when first I saw them.
I know of nothing better for the adolescent child than to teach him how properly to manicure his own nails.
He's costumed neat but expensive, and his lily-white hands are manicured to the last notch.
When the amount reached three hundred and sixty-five dollars, he hesitated over a further expenditure of nine for a manicure set and a pair of pink satin sleeve holders.
It appears that the manicure person is a great catch, and you are very lucky to get him without making an appointment long beforehand.
However, if you only know how, you can manicure your nails at home, and they will look every bit as well as if you trotted downtown and spent half a day and a nice big dollar.
He washed his hands and face in a leisurely fashion, cleaned and manicured his nails, pushed back the skin with the towel, and sponged his stout white body from head to foot.
Then they are shaved and have their hair done; their little hands are manicured, their little corns cut for them.
The next morning at breakfast the manicure girl was again discussed, but in a veiled way so as not really to upset Charles before the wedding.
Her nails are manicured to appear almost crimson, her teeth are shining white under her curved lips, that look capable of bitter sayings and smiles of scorn.
He was manicuring himself when I called, and I was asked whether I would see him now, or wait two hours till he had finished.
After my bath I answered my mail; and then, Marie having manicured my nails, my toilet was made.
"Oh, she needn't, she's going to be manicured, and she's coming back here for me in a quarter of an hour."
Now Wilbur's all right in his way; but ain't he a little rugged to spring on a lady manicure that hasn't seen him for some time?
Next, a manicure box which was among her possessions, but had lain about unused after it ceased to be a novelty, was brought into play.
"Then we could have given ourselves a manicure, like the Portuguese who left right after we arrived."
Another day, after lunching in the restaurant of a great store, she whiled away half an hour by having her nails manicured.
Dick's profile on a bit of paper or teaching him how to manicure his nails, but that night she was lying on the cot, and she didn't look up.
He insists that all the servants in the house should be manicured, particularly those who wait on table, or have anything to do with touching the food.
Cairns watched the picture made by the rosy manicured finger nails, the sparkling stones, the white skin.
One wanted me in private manicure rooms to learn the trade; she said I had the right kind of fingers after the rough had worn off.
I manicured them carefully, and sat waiting for some real nice mischief to come along, but none did, so I hunted up some for myself.
It makes this difference: that a manicure would probably not think of herself as your equal.
She manicured her nails, humming all the while, then she steamed her face and dashed cold water on it till it was all glowing.
The elder Browne sniffed in disgust and stroked his beard with his carefully manicured fingers.
There were two manicures who did nothing but see to the hands of the women working in the plant.
Irma jumped up, upsetting the box of manicure powder, and scattering the other implements over the floor. "It's never my box!"
"You can use these split open ones for a manicure set or a brush and comb box for travelling."
He built a pyramid with his plump, white, carefully manicured fingers, and the brilliant eyes he fixed on the man beside him held a challenge.
And where (in this book) the young lady whose blooming presence in the barber shop in the basement invites you to manicure attentions gives rise to some very dramatic occurrences.
I offered to manicure her nails for her, but she refused, saying that as Hannah had done it for many years, she guessed she could manage now.
I went upstairs and manicured my nails, which usually comforts me, and put my hair up like Leila's.
Nell had begun to admire something about Betty Hunt besides her frocks and the way she manicured her nails.
We learned the correct way to walk, sit and gesture, and were instructed concerning hair care, manicures, diets and exercise.
Blythe, I hear, saved her manicure set and left behind a manuscript poem that would have made lasting fame for her.
You left the profession about three years ago, and have been engaged in this place as manicure for a little less than two years.
Her beautifully shaped hands were much in evidence, and I don't recall having ever seen cleaner or better manicured fingers.
What manicuring would erase those, and yet how precious they would seem when Cousin Jerry would hear what she had done to help with his wonderful surveying?
And turning the pages of his book with a manicured finger, he found the place and began to read aloud, glancing up at one or another of his girl pupils from time to time.
Who still lived, if you could call it that, in the curiously ordered world of yellow brick and manicured lawns that was Claiborne Hospital.
Cynthia, in the comedy of that name, received her husband while the hairdresser and the manicure were employed with her.
His manicured fingers did lift towards his face, but he changed his mind and pulled a silk handkerchief out of his sleeve and carefully smoothed his hair back from his forehead.
Hands that, but a short while ago were manicured twice a week were now broadened, manly, brown and grease-stained.
She has to take the greatest care of her own appearance, and get her nails manicured, and her hair waved when he is at home.
All this, applied to a girl who formerly protested against giving so much as half an hour daily to her manicure needs!
I use modelling wax for sculpture, and it is impossible to clean it out of the nails even with manicure instruments.
Such occupations as will occur to every one, are manicure parlors where girls are peculiarly exposed to danger and insults.
In their day the hand had not claimed for its beauty the cunning skill of the "artist manicure."
From the depot to the cab, from the cab to the hotel, from the hotel to the dining room, barber shop, manicure room or other places, the monster trails you.
Nobody suggested that she manicure her fine big hands, or use some of her endless leisure to remove the spots from her blue silk dress.
She remarked, frankly licking her delicately manicured fingers and placing the lid upon the box with a great air of determination.
I must say, considering his class, he seems a very decent sort of fellow; fancy, his hands are manicured!
Manicuring went on in every quiet moment, and many of the girls spent twenty minutes daily, or twice daily, in the careful adjustment of large sheets of paper as cuffs, to protect their sleeves.
His hands were soft and manicured, he entered a room with grace and left it with distinction.
It seems a very appropriate name too, as he spends a great deal of his time dressing himself and manicuring his nails.
From time to time the coroner looked up impatiently from his manicure, and the sergeant increased his pace.
It seemed a very appropriate name, too, as he spent a great deal of his time dressing himself and manicuring his nails.
They were well-shaped hands, perfectly manicured, a fact of which their owner was fully aware.
There, at the manicure's table, sat the girl who had gone by us in the parlor and had looked so sharply at Marlowe and Alma.
Prom where we were we could see Marlowe, though his back was turned, and neither he nor the manicure could see us.
Nor was there any mistaking the pains which the manicure took to please her rich and elderly customer.
Kennedy had finished with the manicure some time before and was waiting for me impatiently.
He had revived an old affair with a pretty manicure girl without stirring so much as a flutter of excitement within himself.
She may be waiting for the trimming of a hat to be changed, or for an appointment with tailor or dressmaker or manicure, or any one of a thousand other things.
He himself entered, manicured, shaved, with keen eyes, a fresh color, and wearing the most delightful lounge coat that ever a tailor of genius had made for a man about town.
"It must feel like this to be manicured," she said, with a slight, nervous giggle, when again he held her hand in his, and began to operate with the file.
I who knew not the meaning of the word "manicure" less than a year before, took pride in my own shining nails now, and remarked the condition of those of a great author!
He ain't safe in the heart of a great city; he's a menace to the life and limb of every manicure woman who crosses his path.
The iron-haired man reached out a manicured hand and twisted Frawley's tunic at the collar.
Genevieve was again staring at the slender little hands, from which the most expert manicuring had not yet entirely removed all traces of rough usage.
I, however, will say that I find here combs, brushes, manicure implements, perfumes, soaps and an endless array of articles whose uses I only can guess at.