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
And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.
From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair
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
"Yes, of course! you may be sure of that," said the hair-comb.
From Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
