So he was really using a paintbrush for the first time in his life.
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The younger Kate, in contrast, turned her own schoolgirl training with a paintbrush into a career.
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Long stretches between are filled "shot gun" houses, unaquainted for many years with a paintbrush.
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These last indeed owe their colouring to a layer of pigment which the point of a paintbrush will easily loosen and remove.
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Desert primroses showed their rounded pink clusters in sunny places, and here and there burned the carmine of Indian paintbrush.
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So Santa Claus rises up very stiffly and painfully, and hobbles across the room to get his paint and paintbrush.
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In 1906 London went quite mad over a Venus whose entire wardrobe was applied with a paintbrush.