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
And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
I was struck with her profusion of jewels, mostly topazes, but also many carbuncles and garnets; rings, bracelets, a necklace, a hair-comb and many big-headed hair pins.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
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 Marietta Holley
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 Sarah Bernhardt
