They are to be supplied with razors when grown up, and never allowed home for holidays, and not permitted to write home, except a circular at Christmas to say they never were so happy and hope they may never be sent for, and no questions are to be asked in case anything happens to them.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Better one's razors or a pistol.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
He had no idea that it was so late; he had asked to be called at seven, but he had slept so soundly that he had not heard his man enter with his shaving water; it was quite cold now, and his razors were terribly blunt.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole