His hair was very black and filled with brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]

Materials: Wool fibers, mohair fibers, sample of mohair brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

It was followed by brilliantine tinkling as the skylight was shattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icerigger]

What word would describe the feel of mohair brilliantine? the appearance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Detach from the sample of mohair brilliantine a warp thread; a filling thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

He rubbed the brilliantine into his hair and sniffed its perfume appreciatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

This punishment was for having messed with Lee senior's jar of favorite brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Would Be King] Reference

From her favorite perch atop the forward console, Pip watched from within her brilliantine coils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running From The Deity]

After shampooing, brilliantine, which was a rich glossy product, was applied, to give hair a nice sheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [On How to Be Lovely | Edwardian Promenade] Reference

The normally transparent structure of the dome exploded in a mass of scintillating, brilliantine auroras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tar Aiym Krang]

Inside there was a used tube of toothpaste, a piece of very old soap and a half-filled bottle of brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormy Springtime]

His thick black hair shone with brilliantine, his dark face was shiny with sweat, his eyes were wide with fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference

I borrow Nikki's Veniss - girly girl curl, brilliantine aqua, and soft - and attempt to cut through the growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference

Their hair was now loose and tousled, no longer trapped by the macassar oil and brilliantine pomade of former years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonderful World of Hair | Edwardian Promenade] Reference

He shaved like a young swell, combed his hair back with brilliantine, and was growing a pencil moustache to look fashionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Wind]

Then he charged, his cap flew from his head and his dark hair, despite the bonds of brilliantine, sprang up into curls as he ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

After her testimony, lobbyists of every persuasion surrounded Gertrudis, vying for her attention in competing clouds of brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference

The cabin smelt of eau-de-Cologne and brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret meets a Milord]

Sylvia followed the brilliantine up a narrow staircase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

She had rubbed brilliantine in to give it the approved gloss.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Love] Reference

It smelled of soap and burnt paper and wallflower brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bliss, and Other Stories] Reference

What does it feel like to have a rat lick the brilliantine off your hair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He pushed aside the blue glass powder-box, the vial of brilliantine and the brushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cigarette-Maker's Romance] Reference

Even Méjat, whom Maigret greeted warmly in spite of his brilliantine, was wearing a scarf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret In Exile]

The scent of brilliantine on his whiskers struck him as particularly pleasant in the fresh air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

There should be about this individual a general atmosphere of brilliantine, clothes and jewelry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

It nourishes, preserves, and strengthens the hair, prevents baldness, and is the best brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference

He liked the way she had her hair arranged, wondered if it was brilliantine that made it glisten so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference

Mrs. Lem's consciousness of the trail on her black brilliantine suddenly failed to support her company manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

He asked how I liked his moustache, and I said it was ` stubbly, 'and he said moral worth was better than brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

Some would return with their hair "conk" a la James Brown and so much brilliantine you could smell it around the corner.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Now it was brushed about his ears, and it glistened as if from some application of brilliantine or other toilet essence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Innes] Reference

At seven-thirty, her cheeks glowing and her high-piled hair gleaming with a suspicion of brilliantine, Evylyn descended the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference

The smell of Inspector Méjat’s brilliantine assailed his nostrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret In Exile]

Is she young or old? "demanded Mrs. Lem, recovering a sense of the lustre on her brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

Mohair brilliantine is used for dress goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Dresses of brilliantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference