Example Sentences

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Salt’s one and fourpence the raser, and that’s a deal too much to give for thee.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

Aug. 5th, after dynner the little boy, sonne to the Captayn of Rhaudnitz, hurt Arthur’s nose with a raser, not in anger but by chance wantonly.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

In 1770 the publication of Monsieur Perrel’s “Pogonotomie, ou 1’Art d’apprendre à se raser soi-même,” created a sensation among fashionable people, and enthusiasts studied self-shaving.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price