To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved "combings". From Wordnik.com. [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference
Vague personal belongings, such as combings, handkerchiefs, a spectacle case, a hairbrush, were found tucked away in. From Wordnik.com. [Cheerful—By Request] Reference
We know, at that time, pubic combings were taken from her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2006] Reference
So much has come out that I have a great big box full of these “combings.”. From Wordnik.com. [How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
M — — says cost 13s. 6d. a yard and reduced more or less of it to combings. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Huxley] Reference
Long-wool noils are from the combings of such wools as Leicester and similar wools. 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 combings downhill speed with flashy aerial maneuvers as skiers propel themselves over a succession of bumps. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Weinbrecht] Reference
Then he asked us for some silk thread, but I had none, so he told us to comb our hair and give him the combings. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
He started toward the companionway, and had just reached it alone when the grizzled head of Andrews appeared above the combings. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
The four categories I use in wool sorting are: best (3 inches or longer,) shorts (less than 3 Inches in length), combings, and mats. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-26] Reference
He had spent half an hour rubbing it with a piece of salt-water soap, rinsed it thoroughly, and had it spread out on the hatch-combings. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
They were, in fact, shed hairs -- probably combings. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
Use malt-combings as a feeding stuff, and not as a manure. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
"Do you throw the combings from your hair in the wash-basin?". From Wordnik.com. [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference
The three men sat down on the combings of the fore-hatch, and Tom. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle and the Breeze] Reference
I make no port till this ship is full to the combings of her hatchways. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
Ten bob I got for Molly's combings when we were on the rocks in Holles street. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
I have made an analysis of malt-combings for the County of Kildare Agricultural. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
Siegmund stooped, and from among the water's combings picked up an electric-light bulb. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Particularly the attractiveness of daily hair combings, weekly baths and clean clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
M-- says cost 13 shillings 6 pence a yard -- and reduced more or less of it to combings. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
"The combings from the lady's hair might have been very useful in establishing her identity.". From Wordnik.com. [That Affair Next Door] Reference
The tarpaulin was now clamped tightly to the hatch-combings, rendering it smooth and firm under foot. From Wordnik.com. [Wide Courses] Reference
"Father!" remonstrated a girl who stood in the companionway, her elbows propped on the hatch combings. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
They were but just in time, when some dark heads were seen rising up above the combings of the hatchway. From Wordnik.com. [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference
He hung on as well as he could; but the spray from the combings of the seas cut his face and blinded him. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Coast] Reference
There were unseasonable washings, dressings, combings and curlings -- admonitions to be "a little gentleman.". From Wordnik.com. [Bunker Bean] Reference
Just now he scratched away at something M---- says cost 13s. 6d. a yard and reduced more or less of it to combings. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
There were only one or two of the hands on board, and these were busy forward, doing something to the forecastle combings. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference
"Ah! here you are, Mr Trimble," exclaimed the Captain, as the master's head and shoulders rose above the combings of the hatchway. From Wordnik.com. [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference
The combings were of stone, and were still intact, as were also the upper stones of a flight of steps that led down to the tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [The White Mice] Reference
I made for it, and as I found my hands grasping the combings of the gun-room skylight, the brig, with a sudden jerk, righted again. From Wordnik.com. [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference
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