In a good English barber's shop it is a brief and not unpleasant process; in an American "tonsorial parlour" it is a lingering and costly torture.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
I picture ships placed within such bottles as bannisters along corrugated highways, seawater rusting from within the steamfitters's tonsorial edge.
"Sympathetic Magic"
Paul Cameron Brown
Most of the college cried when they found that the two eminent authorities on tonsorial art were going to try to interfere with Millersburg's ambition, but those of us who were on to the deal simply prayed.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch