Word: brushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wilderness of western Montana, where big game roams a rugged land of granite and jack pine, two hunters tracked a trail of blood. For five hours Viv Squires and Ken Scott moved cautiously through the brush, trailing the huge brown grizzly bear they had wounded that morning. Viv Squires, 45, was no marksman, had not hunted for ten years; he carried a .30-30 Winchester carbine-a deer rifle and hardly better than a peashooter, he kept thinking, against the 8-ft., 700-lb. grizzly. But 29-year-old Ken Scott, lean, muscular and a good shot, felt confident...
Rattlesnakes do not make good pets, Klauber warns solemnly. When caressed with the hand or stroked with a brush, they sometimes arch their backs, but this apparent appreciation should not be depended upon. Klauber tells of a woman, Mrs. Grace O. Wiley, who petted her snakes and enjoyed seeing them arch their backs like cats. "Her fearless handling of venomous snakes," he says, "was well known, yet . . . even in her case, after many years of experience, there was a fatal termination...
Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint. In later ages, the elegant powdered peruke of the 18th century looked askance at Hals's clearly visible brush strokes. But French 19th Century Painter Edouard Manet grasped Hals's secret of laying colors side by side, used it for his own bold compositions and made the technique a cornerstone of French impressionism...
...governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from Boston's waterfront...
...apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede shoes to the set of his ample brown hair; he used to arm a secretary with a pair of hairbrushes, station him in the wings so that he could brush his hair between curtain calls...