Side Comb

"I'm ready now," and with dexterous use of a side-comb she produced the desired result. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

She had lost a gold-rimmed side-comb overboard, besides getting very wet when the boat turned suddenly and "took a wave." ❋ Margaret Penrose (N/A)

Presently Bessie took a side-comb from her head and began combing Dude's stiff black hair and smoothing it down with the palms of her hands. ❋ Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- (1934)

She thrust her hand into a pocket in her dress, and held up the side-comb for inspection. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Captain Coroloni and her father helped Constance to her feet while Lieutenant di Ferara recovered a side-comb and the white sun hat. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Mrs. Hastings, seated near the dais, heard; and as she turned, a rhinestone side-comb slipped from her hair, tinkled over the jewels of her corsage and shot into the lap of a member of the High ❋ Zona Gale (1906)

He, never having seen a side-comb, fancied that it might be an infernal machine which he had never seen either, and, palpitating, flashed it to the guardian hand of Mr. Frothingham. ❋ Zona Gale (1906)

I threw a few things into my grip, gave my hair a flirt or two with a side-comb, put on my hat, and went in and gave the old lady's foot a kick. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

The impression of the whole scene was that of a spot where no human foot had left its print for many preceding days, -- probably not since Phoebe's departure, -- for she saw a side-comb of her own under the table of the arbor, where it must have fallen on the last afternoon when she and Clifford sat there. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Phoebe's departure, -- for she saw a side-comb of her own under the table of the arbor, where it must have fallen on the last afternoon when she and Clifford sat there. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

a woman's innocent side-comb, but to the captain and his son it appeared more terrible than the most dangerous bomb. ❋ Unknown (1910)

a side-comb; and another, a bit of trebly folded paper, proved to be an envelope -- the envelope of one of the letters that he had sent to her at North Ride Cottage. ❋ W. B. Maxwell (1902)