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
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
At the end of the play a gold hair-comb was handed to me, on which were engraved the names of a great number of persons present.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah
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
"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
