cobbler's wax
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The young man's sleeves were rolled up, his face was generously smudged, and a strip of cobbler's wax beneath the tipper lip, puffed and distorted the firm line of his mouth.
From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
A box of tacks, some cobbler's wax, Some gum and glycerine-0!
From The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff by Lindsay, Norman
They then returned to the hairdresser, and Ralph insisted that the beard and mustache should be fastened on not only in the ordinary manner--with springs--but with cobbler's wax.
From The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War by Young, F. T.
He had a jack-knife in his pocket and a white alley and a piece of cobbler's wax and several yards of string.
From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)
My beard and whiskers are so firmly fixed on, with cobbler's wax, that I shall have an awful trouble to get them off; and my hair the same.
From The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War by Young, F. T.
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