An artist's brush made of sable hairs.
1When thoroughly dry, touch the ends occasionally with green; this must be done with the sable brush.
2Paint in the corolla a small circle of crimson points, using for this purpose a sable brush.
3Wash the calyx with a weak solution of gum water, using for the purpose a sable brush.
4It is painted after it is made: the centre is touched with a sable brush-thecolour, second yellow.
5This can be applied with a sable brush as in water-colour painting, and makes a rich velvety dark.
6Before sailing from England I had bought a little colour-box, one good sable brush, and a few H.B.
7She reached down and swirled her sable brush in a little jar of water, and then opened her travelling palette case.
8With a small sable brush, form a triangular spot of deep yellow at the lower end of the broad part of the petal.
9The day I arrived Munnings was much upset because he had no sable brushes.
10Two small sable brushes are for veining, as in geraniums.
11When I was leaving I said to Munnings, "What about those sable brushes, Munnings?"
12"What the hell has that got to do with my sable brushes?"
13Your brushes, my dear...your soft, sable brushes...licking my skin like the tip of your tongue, coaxing out my colors.
14"Second," said he, "have you got any sable brushes?"