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 Richard Le Gallienne
"Did it ruffle his pretty hair, then!" she cried; and, with her hair-comb, she combed him straight.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I had both a bootjack and a hair-comb, which I never used!
From A Christmas Greeting by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
"Yes, of course! you may be sure of that," said the hair-comb.
From Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
