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

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

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

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