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They and their charcoal hair and soot-coloured brows and bluish-ash-smeared cheeks where they had shaven close; but their heritage showed.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

We knew that all those rabbits that had shaven bellies—our scientific knowledge adequately covered this point because it was our job to shave the rabbits—were undergoing Aschheim-Zondek tests.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

They knew he had shaven off his mustache.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

They found that Paul had circumcised Timothy according to the Law, that Paul had purified himself with four other men in the Temple at Jerusalem, that Paul had shaven his head at Cenchrea.

From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Graebner, Theodore

He had shaven off his whiskers and made a close crop of his hair, and was so changed in his appearance that no one would have suspected that he was the same man.

From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by McElroy, John