Rigid toothed device

Usage examples of comb.

Jerry Aland, much more presentable now that he was combed and dressed, kept his eyes fastened on Wolfe.

In a few minutes the hated stench of the aldehyde would have driven any bees still hanging about the comb down to the next level in the hive.

The bath attendant drifted hesitantly back as Alec finished dressing, offering him a tray of oils and combs.

She unpinned her hair, which was only slightly damp, and was combing out the golden locks when Amine came back into the room.

The ivory was stained and scaling, its edges jagged with the stumps of baleen combs.

Having no shackle, he had to leave the bird blinkered, and the scarlet comb throbbed angrily.

Then he hooked his hat on a wood peg and combed his hair in an oxidized mirror, lit an unfiltered cigarette, and sat down at a table by himself while a mulatto woman brought him a shot of whiskey and a beer on the side and a length of white boudin in a saucer.

Her hair was piled up on her head and held in place by silver combs and a length of silk, in a style worn by many Busk women, and she wore no jewelry apart from long silver earrings.

Also, she had combed or brushed her hair and she looked considerably better.

Fallon stopped, huffing and puffing, watching through the wide door as cops combed through the stuff in the cluttered workshop.

I shaved, combed my hair, put on a suit none of my new playmates had seen me wear, crossed the street, climbed the stairs of the apartment house and knocked on the door of apartment 3A.

Saint Just said, stepping past her to peer in the mirror, pushing at his already perfectly combed black hair.

I had brushed it, though, and it floated loose around my shoulders, smelling pleasantly of the hyssop and nettle-flower infusion I combed through it to keep lice at bay.

Thinning gray hair was combed low across his forehead in an unfashionable style.

Her jet-black hair was combed out until it hung loosely down below her shoulders.