Laura Keene brushed by him with the glass of water.

He thought the fender of the Plymouth brushed his jacket as it went by.

Before hitting the pole, Mr. Stone's car brushed against a car driven by Alva W. Vernava, 21, of 23 Maple Ave., North Providence, tearing away the rear bumper and denting the left rear fender of the Vernava car, police said.

I had brushed my teeth, showered, shaved and dressed by the time a waiter wheeled in breakfast.

The Marquis de Gruignan attempted a counter-attack, but he was easily brushed aside by the triumphant Allies.

Edmund responded to her plea by sending angry threats to Hugh, who brushed them aside.

His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

During the war and in the name of Allied unity, Roosevelt had brushed off warnings of a potential domination by a Stalin dictatorship in part of Europe.

All of the students go back willingly except for Rod, who has great difficulty reverting from the status of head of a small, but sovereign state to a teenager casually brushed aside by the adult rescuers.

Though in some ways unsuccessful in his forays in England, he was brushed aside by the " Iron Duke " ( Duke of Wellington ), the then British Foreign Secretary, and reported bitterly to Jardine of being insulted by an arrogant and stupid man.

However, he is always brushed off by the teachers before he gets to show them his work.

A group of stereotypical bureaucrats tries to manage the Culture's response to the Excession but is brushed aside by the Interesting Times Gang, an informal group of Minds some of whom are veterans of the Idiran-Culture War, to try to deal with what is by far the most serious challenge the Culture has faced.

He tried to see him three times to talk to him but was brushed off each time in the hallway by Long and his bodyguards.

He was forced to renounce his throne in 1801 by the Treaty of Aranjuez: Napoleon brushed him aside to make way for the Kingdom of Etruria, created as compensation for the Bourbon Dukes of Parma, being dispossessed by the Peace of Lunéville in that same year.

Unlike Pegrum, who employed a traditional rock drumming style, Genockey favoured a more varied drumming style, influenced by both Irish and African drumming, in which he hit, brushed, and rubbed the various surfaces of his drums and cymbals, creating a more varied range of sounds.

New style telegraphs by Chadburns were designed which had a facility for braking the engines for rapid reversal, the telegraphs were part of a brand known as " Synchrostep " and were all originally unpainted brushed aluminium with shiny brass rimming.

The monotype process was invented by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ( 1609-64 ), an Italian painter and etcher who was also the first artist to produce brushed sketches intended as finished and final works of art ( rather than as studies for another work ).

The lord believes the father will accept him as his future son-in-law but is brushed aside by Western who removes Sophia to his own lodgings.

# Exfoliative Cytology – In this method, cells are collected after they have been either spontaneously shed by the body (" spontaneous exfoliation ") or manually scraped / brushed off of a surface in the body (" mechanical exfoliation ").

The red juice is used by European dentists to show children how to brush their teeth correctly, as any improperly brushed areas will be heavily stained.

* Proximal convoluted tubule ( lies in cortex and lined by simple cuboidal epithelium with brushed borders which help to increase the area of absorption greatly.

New research has revealed that the final Land Rover design was well advanced by early December 1947 leaving the Centre Steer for use in publicity photographs that were used in the first sales brochure, though heavily air brushed to look like the production vehicle.

Most thought it was really risky and reckoned Lim who was financially comfortable to be foolish to invest heavily in money and time to develop Genting, but Lim brushed off all these negativities and went ahead firmly with his plan.

" A butler took a duster and brushed it up, tinkling the keys.

Most electric cars up to recently used brushed motors but now many people are turning to brushless motors for their higher power output and because they require much less maintenance.

To his surprise, Bell rounded third and brushed by him on the way home ; pitcher Murry Dickson of the St. Louis Cardinals had not thought to cover home with the catcher moving up the line, and Bell scored standing up.

In an effort to use up existing warehouse stock, the brushed chrome lower bodyside accent molding, optional through last year, was added as standard equipment for 1989 ( revamped moldings would appear in 1990 ).

Seeming to have no connection with other events at first, a young police officer, Ben Cole, is convinced what is being brushed off as a suicide is actually a murder, and ends up losing his job over the issue ... which brings him to the side of the embattled Christian school.

In back, the brushed metal panel above the center reflector held a series of fine horizontal pinstripes, and the new " LINCOLN " logo and " Town Car " script emblems moved up from above the tail-light panel ( where they had been since 1988 ), back onto the trunk lid itself.

" Replays demonstrated that the ball that had dismissed him had brushed his forearm, not his glove, before ballooning up into the hands of Rahul Dravid at slip.

He brushed these obstacles aside, and once more set up a new laboratory geared to making measurements on soils with instruments of his own devising.

Palin was asked to come down and do a recitation for the album and showed up dressed in a 1940s cricketer outfit — V-necked sweater, his hair all brushed to one side.

The burrs and mud it picks up in its travels need to be brushed off its legs and belly.

Theresa could not murder and stopped at the last second, but the explosion was accidentally caused when Rebecca-who was wearing jewelry which brushed up against the tank and caused the explosion.

Haswell gives a slightly different description of the archetype: a high beaver hat, with the nap divided and brushed in opposite directions, the hair on the back of his head clipped close, while in front the temple locks were curled and greased ( hence, the well-known term of ' soap-locks ' to the wearer of them ), a smooth face, a gaudy silk neckcloth, black frockcoat, full pantaloons, turned up at the bottom over heavy boots designed for service in slaughter houses and at fires ; and when thus equipped, with his girl hanging on his arm, it would have been very injudicious to offer him any obstruction or to utter an offensive remark.

: Should an MP ask about what would happen to these contract labourers in the event of a base being set up on the island, we hope that, for the present, this can be brushed aside as a hypothetical question at least until any decision to go ahead with the Diego Garcia facility becomes public.

Men tended to dress like country squires: often wearing a plain navy blue or brown coat, with a white high-collared shirt and white cravat ; their hair was brushed forward ( imitating the style worn by the ancient Romans ) and sometimes markedly pushed up vertically off the forehead.

With his large, good-natured eyes and thick red hair brushed straight up, audiences might laugh, ruining the gravitas of any scene.

He brushed past the clergyman and walked into the center of the camp.

Wilson brushed the dust from his coat.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.

He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

he brushed his shoulders and his back and his collar with long, firm strokes.

The velvet smoking jackets, pearl-gray, wine, and blue, which Miss Ada had bought him hung brushed and unworn in the closet.

The large jar was brushed with Creek-Turn green toner and sponged off.

Outside was finished with Creek-Turn brown toner brushed on and sponged off to give antique finish.

He made his way to his host's bedroom where he carefully brushed himself off, neatly arranged his hair, and painstakingly selected his hat from the many on the bed.

The massed reporters brushed aside the customary bromides about Saudi-American friendship to bore in on the central question.

He got one of the menus and brushed the spilled sugar onto it and carried it to a box on the floor behind the counter.

Roberts brushed at his eyes with his free hand and started down the steps.

He arose slowly and brushed himself off.

The man was bleeding and had brushed against the walls of the restroom.

Gold and silver leaf were placed on food surfaces and brushed with egg whites.