Combings

To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved "combings" -- ❋ Unknown (1873)

Vague personal belongings, such as combings, handkerchiefs, a spectacle case, a hairbrush, were found tucked away in ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

Inland, they could perceive other sand-hills, higher than that to which they had climbed, and long crested "combings", with deep valleys between; but not one object to gladden their sight, nothing that offered promise of either food, drink, or shelter. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

So much has come out that I have a great big box full of these “combings.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The next instant she was in the trough, her leerail buried till the ocean was level with her hatch-combings, sea after sea breaking over her weather rail and sweeping what remained exposed of the deck with icy deluges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the meantime she lay dead, her lee yardarms almost touching the sea, the sea creaming solidly to her hatch-combings across the buried, unseen rail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The four categories I use in wool sorting are: best (3 inches or longer,) shorts (less than 3 Inches in length), combings, and mats. ❋ FUZZARELLY (2009)

It combings downhill speed with flashy aerial maneuvers as skiers propel themselves over a succession of bumps. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With all this, in order to cover up the failures of your government - a visible symbol of betrayal of the much-propagated cause of the common masses of Jharkhand - you the people in power are trying to attack us, sending troops to create white terror by regular combings and savage brutalities. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

The same thing is done with debris taken off the body, dried secretion and bite marks, fingernail scrapings, as well, pubic hair combings, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We know, at that time, pubic combings were taken from her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But, you know, the medical examiner ` s office simply takes specimens, the oral, vaginal and anal swabs and the pubic hair combings and tape-lifts, and sends that off to the laboratory. ❋ Unknown (2005)

His companions, sitting on the combings of the main – hatch, or crouched in careless fashion on the shady side of the barricade, were laughing and talking, with blasphemous and obscene merriment hideous to contemplate; but he, with cap pulled over his brows, and hands thrust into the pockets of his coarse grey garments, held aloof from their dismal joviality. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One of the things we learned today before leaving Colorado, Kobe Bryant did take what is called the defendant's rape kit that included samples of his hair, DNA, blood samples, also pubic hair combings and he also had to measure the size of his palm. ❋ Unknown (2004)

M — — says cost 13s. 6d. a yard and reduced more or less of it to combings. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Would to heaven that he had swept off our heads with his enormous scimitar instead of obscuring the light of our countenances with these wool – combings that cover us! ❋ Unknown (2002)

I was standing at this time in no enviable position, my feet rested on the combings of the main hatchway with my back against the deck. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

We had now fallen so much on the side that we stood with our feet on the combings of the hatchways, with our backs against the deck. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

Attaching a line to any part of the rail or combings, or to any projecting point of the boat, establishes the _droit de pêche_ at that particular spot, -- a right respected with such rigorous etiquette, that the owner may then go his way with confidence, to inspect the resources of the bar, or join the gay throng of dancers between-decks. ❋ Various (N/A)