It is like seeing a musician trying to live without music, or an artist without pencils and brushes.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He brushes off the ice and snow.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Clothes-brushes, she correctly supposed, were scarce on the Canadian prairie, but it seemed probable that he would require a brush of some kind to clean his horses.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss