hair-comb
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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
He towered up, he fluttered so to speak majestically, and he says in loud wild axents that must have struck terror to the soul of that mariner, "Where is the hair-comb?"
From Samantha at Saratoga by Holley, Marietta
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
"The woman who left this hair-comb behind knows something about the affair evidently," exclaimed the inspector.
From The Sign of Silence by Le Queux, William
"Did it ruffle his pretty hair, then!" she cried; and, with her hair-comb, she combed him straight.
From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
