hair-comb
Example Sentences
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It is a small aluminum instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Tanner bustled in with the coffee-pot, and Mr. Tanner came last, having just finished his rather elaborate hair-comb at the kitchen glass with the kitchen comb, in full view of the assembled multitude.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Hill, Grace Livingston
And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.
From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair
That the whole should be wrenched away and sold at so much 'the comb'—as though it were a hair-comb.
From English Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard
I had both a bootjack and a hair-comb, which I never used!
From A Christmas Greeting by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
