2) Gillette, King Camp. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (c. 1895) and founded the Gillette Safety Razor Company (1901)....

3) razor. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A device for holding a razorblade, with guards to prevent cutting of the skin. Also called safety razor. 3. An electric instrument with vibrating or rotating blades...

4) 1877. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1873, and later by Bell and Coleman). 4 1895 King C. Gillette (1855-1932) invented safety razor with throwaway blades. J. Schick invented electric razor (1928). Stainless...

5) Chapter 1. Lewis, Sinclair. 1922. Babbitt
...a belligerent slapping of the unctuous brush, furiously he raked his plump cheeks with a safety-razor. It pulled. The blade was dull. He said, Damn—oh—oh—damn it!...

6) Chapter 7. Lewis, Sinclair. 1922. Babbitt
...of spectacles, squatting in breast-high water, scraping his lather-smeared cheeks with a safety-razor like a tiny lawn-mower, and with melancholy dignity clawing...

7) 309. Retaliation. Oliver Goldsmith. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics
...lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they...

8) The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99. Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians
...with perfect lucidity, the inevitable development of events. Sooner or later, it would be absolutely necessary to send a relief expedition to Khartoum; and, from...

9) Samson Agonistes: Lines 1000-1249. Milton, John. 1909-14. Complete Poems. The Harvard Classics
...spread before him How highly it concerns his glory now To frustrate and dissolve these magic spells, Which I to be the power of Israel s God Avow, and challenge Dagon...

10) XXXII. In Which Jos Takes Flight and the War Is Brought to a Close. Thackeray, William Makepeace. 1917. Vanity Fair, A Novel without a Hero. Vols. V & VI. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...Then he looked amazed at the pale face in the glass before him, and especially at his mustachios, which had attained a rich growth in the course of near seven weeks,...