Shave

The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […]

I had little time to shave this morning.

Now shaves with level wing the deep.

[…] I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin–pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; […]

Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.

The acceleration was impressive, and these trains should allow TfW to look at shaving a few minutes off schedules here and there in the fullness of time, […].

Took one of the goons, the fuck they gonna do? Shave him in the heart then the mandem smoke a zoot

I instructed the barber to give me a shave.

a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper

yea, tis knowable that the paper money of some of them would not pass, comparatively speaking, much, if any, beyond the smoke of the chimney from whence 'twas issued and circulated before you, or those who had it would have to take a broker's shave on it , at the rate of from a ¼, to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, or more per cent, before it could be used as solvently available means of payment.

Being unable to pay the note at maturity, Laws went with Starr to one Snyder, to whom the note was sold at a “shave,” as the parties called it, of 10 per cent.

If this were a dishonest transaction, why did the companies settle? If it were not, why did the heirs submit to a shave of one-half their claims?

Where S made a note to raise money upon, and H, agreeing to discount it for a shave of six dollars, received the note and soon returned with the check of V for the amount of such note, less legal discount, payable to the order of S, and he drew the money thereon and having no knowldge of the agreement or of the payment,–Held, that V was not guilty of usury, but was entitled to recover on the note.

He expected to pay the expenses of examining the titles, yet claims that the whole sum paid was a shave.

"[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.