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  • There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out. Home Life in Colonial Days
  • Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
  • It was indeed, the dirty brown hair was neatly combed and the coat was new and clean, he was smiling fit to burst as he entertained giggling ladies and laughing lords.
  • He combed his fingers through his short cropped hair and opened the door.
  • Charney is also determined to make a deeper niche within that niche category, by focusing on more fashionable, more fitted basic T-shirts done in 100 percent combed cotton, 30 single yarn baby ribs and superfine jerseys.
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  • Rising hurriedly, she soon was neatly dressed and combed. Heidi
  • I raked my shaky hand through my uncombed, disheveled hair.
  • An image of a taxi-clogged street is set against one of smiling boys in an alleyway; an aerial view of straight avenues, traffic circles, and high-rises is juxtaposed with one of the honeycombed streets of the old town.110 Bloodlust
  • A servitor, his apron stained with particles of food and slops of wine, hurried up, his greasy, uncombed hair masking his face. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • He tied his neckcloth, combed his fingers through his hair, and pulled on his Hessian boots. The Year of Living Scandalously
  • His hair was combed back into a perfect ducktail, and on top two tiny curls fell from his pomp.
  • Air accident investigators combed the scene of the crash yesterday. The Sun
  • His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
  • Her hair had been carefully backcombed and lacquered into shape.
  • Michael had thick caramel brown hair, which was combed to the side.
  • A Garda helicopter combed the skies between north Roscommon and Sligo town after the thieves targeted Sligo and other towns.
  • Well might he inquire, for this man, having combed his hair with a public comb, which was attached to the door-post by a string, and examined himself carefully in a bit of glass, about two inches in diameter, proceeded to cleanse his teeth with a _public tooth-brush_ which hung beside the comb. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
  • That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
  • Officers combed the woods for the murder weapon.
  • a wormhole! that settles it, done for! perhaps the thing is riddled, or even "honeycombed" in parts. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
  • He is wearing his hair unbarbered, and combed over his bald spot. Globe and Mail
  • Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
  • I was a bit of a rockabilly in those days, 50's gear, backcombed hair (it was cool, honest), and I used to wear circle skirts with tight polo-necked tops and a very, very cinched waist.
  • They dressed, she combed his hair for him, and they left. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
  • Then swarms of military personnel combed the area and a tarp-covered flatbed truck rumbled out of the woods.
  • There were livid bruises on his shoulder, and chest, he was unshaven, and his hair uncombed.
  • The Princess had a distinguished face, thin and drawn, set off by long black uncombed hair and she wore a long dark gown down to her feet.
  • Afterwards she combed out long gray curls which turned into ringlets in the sun.
  • I had my best suit on and my hair combed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Medes and Assyrians, Virgil is the most ancient writer, who expressly mentions the soft wool which was combed from the trees of the Seres or Chinese; 62 and this natural error, less marvellous than the truth, was slowly corrected by the knowledge of a valuable insect, the first artificer of the luxury of nations. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Cribellate silk is combed out from the cribellum using the calamistrum, a group of specialized, curved setae on the metatarsus of the fourth leg.
  • The street was cordoned off and forensic experts combed the area and the club for evidence.
  • The Princess had a distinguished face, thin and drawn, set off by long black uncombed hair and she wore a long dark gown down to her feet.
  • Her head was covered by a red kerchief, which, folden triangular, hung loosely over it: her grey hairs were combed back from her high and wrinkled brow. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
  • These essays and poems collectively establish a literary tradition for the country rooted in gauchesco poetry, in both European and Argentine writers, in the frontier-like atmosphere of the compadritos: "Foulmouthed men who whiled away their time behind a whistle or a cigarette and whose distinctive traits were a high-combed mane of hair, a silk handkerchief, high-heeled shoes, a bent-over gait, a challenging gaze … [in a] classic time of gangs, of Indians," i.e., the characters in "The Man on Pink Corner" and the men Dahlmann encounters when he travels South. CounterPunch
  • My hair is wavy now that I rubbed fingertips of brilliantine through it and combed and brushed it.
  • Imaginary fingers combed through his hair, stroked the side of his face.
  • Made of 6 oz., extra-smooth Egyptian combed cotton interlock, this shirt features cotton / Lycra cuffs and neck for extra stretch where it counts, and a hemmed bottom.
  • Her blonde hair was carefully combed, and she had put too much make-up.
  • The next day, both of them combed the farm in search of ideal locations for recharging groundwater.
  • `Your name is Olly," Nelda instructed as she oiled and dyed, combed and fluffed. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • They hurriedly set about constructing fortified positions in the sewers, cellars and vaults which honeycombed the entire ghetto.
  • He stared out the window the entire time the beautician curled and backcombed his wife's snowy hair.
  • His rather fashionable beard has been carefully combed and so has his shoulder-length hair.
  • She sat her on the counter beside the sink and combed back her thin hair.
  • People climbed the trees to shake down the nuts, many still sheathed in the bright-green fleshy tegument, while other family members and relations combed the forest floor and picked them up. Wildwood
  • Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the Old Calabria
  • Displayed on the gallery floor were seven disks made of synthetic hair, each meticulously combed out to a diameter of five feet.
  • The shadows on his face accentuated his chiselled cheekbones and chin, and his uncombed hair hung over his face.
  • The emperor's jacket was unbuttoned, his lace cravat untied, and his crown of golden leaves sitting crooked atop uncombed dark hair.
  • Her red hair has been neatly combed back and braided.
  • So whether you or a professional are styling your hair, it will be responsive to being brushed, curled, and combed.
  • But this mine had been so honeycombed over its long history that there were no precise maps. The Man Behind The Rescue Of The Chilean Miners
  • Despite previous American searches of the area around the Shah-e-Kot valley, it is still honeycombed with caves, bunkers and hideouts that have not been searched.
  • His brown hair was uncombed and in a mess, hanging in front of his eyes.
  • Never without his denim jacket, loose white shirt, and dark, black Levis, all the girls swooned at the sight of his puppy-dog-brown eyes and combed back brown hair.
  • I had leopard skin leggings, a leopard skin top, my hair was all backcombed - it was horrible.
  • Thirty officers were taking part in a murder investigation last night as forensics experts combed the property for clues to the mystery killings. The Sun
  • Police said Enterprise, which they describe as the crime capital of Central, was being combed for the killers.
  • He combed through the files searching for evidence of fraud.
  • Superficially thick walls are honeycombed with passages and chambers serving individual suites and lodgings.
  • Police officers have combed the area with dogs and an underwater team has searched the canal near his work.
  • Mr. Carmichael was a tall man, well over six feet, and slender, with aquiline features and dark hair perfectly oiled and combed into sleek lines rising from his high, strong forehead.
  • If the blocks were truly large, as Corb originally envisaged them, then they could become honeycombed hills.
  • Chief Investigator Ilya Nikitin, his thin hair combed wet straight back over his round head, squinted orientally through the smoke of the cigarette clamped between his teeth. Gorky Park
  • Seven stalworth men shoot out from among a mass of rags on the floor, and with dark, wandering eyes, and massive, uncombed beards, commence in their native Italian a series of interrogatories, not one of which the detective can understand. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • The volcano also spewed out hundreds of feet of ash as far as Kansas and Oklahoma and hardened into a honeycombed rock form called tuff. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But with his neatly combed blond hair there is a likeness to dad Wills. The Sun
  • The round-faced Kim Jong Un - unsmiling with his hair combed straight back - was one of the officials named and was sitting in the front row near his father with a military officer between them. N. Korea Media Prints Photos Of Likely Heir
  • Troops combed the area to mop up any remaining resistance.
  • The black screen flickered for a moment before it came to life, showing a small boy with messy, uncombed blonde hair and bright blue eyes.
  • All the local fishing boats (sail boats then) and currachs combed the area and an extensive search was undertaken along the neighbouring shorelines.
  • The estuary and Khawr waterway have been combed by helicopters hauling mine detectors on sledges, and by minesweepers and minehunters, while Chatham's helicopter provided air support.
  • His right ear sported a gold ring and his long black hair was left uncombed and untied.
  • Loraine combed through her hair with the ivory comb, than placed her diamond-studded tiara on her auburn hair.
  • She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
  • It can be brushed, combed or scrunched into your hair to enhance natural hair colour.
  • His hair was combed back smoothly over his round skull.
  • She combed harder, trying to tame the strands into submission. CORMORANT
  • In those years, the continent was honeycombed with clandestine groups plotting against the governments.
  • The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
  • Detective Martin stood in the room while forensics combed the rooms of the small home.
  • Officers combed surrounding counties for tear gas, sprays, concussion grenades, and munitions.
  • The building will be honeycombed with courtyards, which will be planted with trees and shrubs, and there will be disabled access throughout.
  • She sat her on the counter beside the sink and combed back her thin hair.
  • Made of 5.2 oz., 100% combed cotton in a two-tone jacquard knit pattern, this shirt is made of a true double-gas mercerized 60's two-ply yarn.
  • Fatal crash investigators combed the scene yesterday and would return today to continue their investigations.
  • She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
  • There was nothing "combed" or "fixed" about Miss Asenath's Woods; no white-washed trees or clipped grass. The Heart of Arethusa
  • His hair was neatly combed back, and he held an umbrella over his head.
  • Today however his hair was combed and sleeked back with loads of gel, his bangs brushed over his right eye; hanging into his face.
  • My hair was combed neatly this time, and I wore a bit more makeup than I usually did (which consisted of eyeliner and lip-gloss).
  • In this way the stone becomes honeycombed and eventually larger, cavernous hollows can form.
  • Her disappearance provoked a massive public response, and hundreds of police officers combed the city streets.
  • His hair had been combed back and slicked down with something to make it neat.
  • I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation before any one else beheld it. Wuthering Heights
  • Yarn made from combed fibers is called combed yarn. HOME COMFORTS
  • The raider combed through his beard with greasy fingers, contemplating the small quiet village that lay in the glen where he hid his band of mercenaries.
  • He had long, shaggy and uncombed flaming red hair.
  • His immaculately combed coat glistened in the late afternoon sun and felt soft and silky under my fingers.
  • Could I genuinely add anything of note without coming across as another desperately backcombed fanboy?
  • The police combed the area for clues.
  • The mother combed the girl's hair.
  • Long hair was always swept back into a ponytail or bun, and short hair is just combed into place.
  • When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
  • Before going to bed last night I combed my hair into stupid hairstyles.
  • The slubbing machine took the raw wool and combed it into long ropes of yarn that could easily be spun in the spinning machines.
  • Her hair was uncombed and she was without the protection of makeup.
  • For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Officers in high visibility jackets have combed an open space near the club. The Sun
  • Her hair was neatly combed back.
  • Celest stands outside the movie theater dressed in a short black dress, her long mahogany hair combed back hanging loose on her back cascading over her shoulders.
  • Somerset looked as if it'd just got out of the shower and wasn't properly towel-dried yet, with trees and copses and hedgerows on all sides bedraggled and uncombed.
  • But it 's me that 's gettin 'combed," wailed Danny. Sowing Seeds in Danny
  • Musa Sadulayev/Associated Press GRUESOME SCENE: Special forces combed the scene of a bomb blast at Chechnya's parliament Tuesday in Grozny, Russia, after militants carried out a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded. Photos of the Day: Oct. 19
  • Athenians used to depilate, you know, while the Spartans grew long hair which they combed before going into before battle. January running, feminine atheletes and getting in the game
  • The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
  • He combed antique markets and put together a collection of swords and other edged weapons that was completely sold out at auction.
  • The Loess Plateau in Shaanxi is honeycombed with caves.
  • Jones depicts them as disgusted by Eva's physicality, her uncombed hair, and her black femaleness.
  • Her marvelous hair was shining brighter and was combed perfectly.
  • And the bloke's got four strands of hair combed all the way up to cover his bonce.
  • She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
  • A servitor, his apron stained with particles of food and slops of wine, hurried up, his greasy, uncombed hair masking his face. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • 'honeycombed' cotton things we were forced to use unless we were going to be frankly 'poor' and cover our beds with plain patchwork, made up hurriedly and quilted in simple 'fans' in plebeian squares, as poor folk who haven't time for elegant stitches did theirs. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
  • The mother combed the girl's hair.
  • Around these the exterior walls and towers are honeycombed with passages, stairs, chambers, and services.
  • With big blue eyes the size of saucers and blond hair that looked like it was combed with an eggbeater, she was a whirlwind in motion. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
  • He said: ‘The area is honeycombed with alleyways which make easy getaways for criminals and there are a worrying number of burglaries around them and all sorts of other problems.’
  • I changed into a long t-shirt and clean underwear and then brushed my teeth, washed my face, and combed my hair.
  • She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
  • I brushed a little blush on my pale cheeks, applied some blue eye shadow and light mascara, and combed my thick brown hair.
  • He combed his hair and tried to hide his bald patch .
  • I am more likely to have glossy shins than combed hair, and anointed arms are probably neck and neck with brushed teeth. Times, Sunday Times
  • His hair had been combed back and slicked down with something to make it neat.
  • There are patterned yellow floor tiles, toffee-coloured leather sofas and a chocolate-boxy portrait of a woman with cat's eyes and backcombed hair.
  • Her raven-black hair, copious both in length and volume and figured like a deep river, rippled by the wind, was parted in the centre and combed smoothly down, ornamenting her pink temples with a flowing tracery that passed round to its modillion windings on a graceful crown. Shandygaff
  • Her grey hair fell in a combed central parting to her earlobes, from which pearl ear rings hung.
  • The body features a maple top over a "honeycombed" ash core, i.e. the body is porous, i.e. chambered, i.e. you got the picture from the term Gearwire -
  • I had my best suit on and my hair combed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Made from a voile fabric in a honeycombed Venetian style, these blinds create a lovely window feature, while allowing diffused light to get through.
  • His blonde hair was bright and neatly combed, his soft brown eyes alight with the essence of life itself.
  • There's lots to discover locally – the area is honeycombed with caverns – or for crazy arboreal activity, Go Ape, with its zip wires and tarzan swings is half an hour's drive north-west of the farm. The 10 best quirky campsites
  • It also refers to the "conk" style in which tightly curled hair is straightened using the chemical congolene (or should it be conkolene, according to Lionel Boyd) and then combed out. John Lee Hooker Lyrics
  • The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
  • I put her into the house, took the dogs for their walk, and came back to find her reasonably dry and silky apart from the tail which she had given up on - I combed the mud out of it while she screeched with fury and tried to bite me.
  • Her brown, frizzy hair was neatly combed and in a barrette.
  • Don't mess up my hair: I've just combed it.
  • His hair was neatly combed back and he looked very handsome.
  • Swallowing the stiffness in her throat, she folded the towel neatly on to the rail and combed her hair.
  • The swift water cuts steep banks in the tough, resilient sod, and the mossy sides of this miniature canyon are honeycombed with mouse-sized holes.
  • Ultimately, Green Hill became honeycombed with mine workings and covered in dumps.
  • Even her hairstyle was on message: a meticulously combed arrangement known as the nodus literally, “knot”, in reference to the distinctive roll of hair swept up harshly above the forehead. Caesars’ Wives
  • The two suspects' homes were being combed by forensics teams last night. The Sun
  • The house was sealed off and forensic experts combed it for clues. The Sun
  • The estuary and Khawr waterway have been combed by helicopters hauling mine detectors on sledges, and by minesweepers and minehunters, while Chatham's helicopter provided air support.
  • Above, between the murqanas - honey-combed stalactites of stucco- and the lime green tiles of the roof, there project exquisitely latticed balconies of Moroccan cedar wood.
  • Then I quickly washed, dressed, combed my hair, and used cosmetics on my face.
  • The city was honeycombed with violence and crimes everywhere.
  • Her auburn hair was neatly combed and her tiny dress was immaculately pressed.
  • A highlight of the display is a sandalwood comb with two hidden chambers, one filled with oil, the other with ‘ittar’ that oils and perfumes the hair as it is combed.
  • Her salt-and-pepper hair was combed flat against her head this morning and covered by a black baseball cap. A Stitch Before Dying
  • His blond hair was neatly combed.
  • Rising hurriedly, she soon was neatly dressed and combed. Heidi
  • They were made of long wool fibers that were first combed to straighten them, spun tightly then woven in fancy weave structures.
  • Even though she dressed in rags and her hair was uncombed, she was like an angel sent from heaven.
  • His blonde hair was parted and combed neatly, and best of all, he was standing there with a dozen red roses.
  • Standing at about five foot nine, Freddie appeared somewhat taller due to an enormous pile of wild, uncombed hair.
  • You can picture the shoulder pads, backcombed hair and robotic dance moves, but here is a band that is more danceable than many.
  • The murder scene was sealed off yesterday as forensic experts combed for clues.
  • Then presently we were in the famous Court of the Lions, where a group of those beasts, at once archaic and puerile in conception, sustained the basin of a fountain in the midst of a graveled court arabesqued and honeycombed round with the wonted ornamentation of the Moors. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • The make-up was plastered on and her hair teased and combed to make her look years older. The Sun
  • I left the young gentlemen of France with their hair brushed en toupet in front, and the toes of their boots round; now the boot-toes are pointed, and the hair combed flat, and, parted in the middle, falls in ringlets on the fashionable shoulders; and, in like manner, with books as with boots, the fashion has changed considerably, and it is not a little curious to contrast the old modes with the new. The Paris Sketch Book
  • he was unwashed and uncombed with his clothes half buttoned
  • They combed the area for the missing child
  • French and US military and naval vessels and divers combed the site yesterday, collecting bodies that were being carried away on a fast current. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her hair was combed, she was clean, she wasn't skittish.
  • Don't ruffle my hair, I've just combed it.
  • Today the great labor unions are honeycombed with socialists, "boring from within," as they picturesquely term their undermining labor. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • Hair: Make it magic, sweep hair over to one side ala retro-Hollywood with soft curled ends, or try hand-combed spiral curls or a sleek molded updo; if natural -- try a bold braid or catch hair up with a great accessory - if short, work a combo texture. Mikki Taylor: Style Fellowship
  • All were garbed in the fashion of "ye olden time," the boys in wigs and square cuts, the girls in short-waisted, low-necked gowns, with hair combed high and powdered. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
  • She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
  • The government has honeycombed mountains with thousands of miles of virtually unused highways.
  • He shows up only once in the flesh, a slim and unobtrusive figure with neatly combed grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • She combed and arranged her golden hair.
  • This mountain is honeycombed with such mines, many over a century old. Chile Mine Collapse Highlights Safety Risks
  • Rescuers combed the hillsides but found no trace of the missing climbers.
  • The pants fit equally well over legs that were like tree stumps, and his polished shoes and brilliantined, combed-back hair both reflected the light from the hanging globes above. DIAMOND RUBY
  • That condition of soil known as honeycombed furnishes a peculiarly opportune time for sowing these seeds, as it provides a covering for them while the land is moist, and thus puts them in a position to germinate as soon as growth begins. Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • He combed her chestnut hair - Paula's natural color - and dressed her in a yellow cotton jumper.
  • he combed his hair
  • My hair was uncombed and my hands and face were caked with mud.
  • Oh, no, don't let this one fool you?" who in the world is this, with this greasy pompadour combed nearly as high again as his face, through which shows the peened, the tenderized soul of a fighter who's not only taken dives, but also thought heavily about them all the way down. Gravity's Rainbow
  • Like his mother and his grandmother, he combed his hair day after day, collecting the hair that came loose.
  • Sharp colour and defined curls create dramatic impact For a classic fifties look short hair is combed back from the face.
  • He picked up his blazer to hide his wrinkled dress shirt, and quickly combed his fingers through his hair.
  • The island, itself, is honeycombed with tunnels.
  • But with his neatly combed blond hair there is a likeness to dad Wills. The Sun
  • Her hair was uncombed, and she gasped through her smeared lipstick, as if she had just been embraced by a violent lover. RUSHING TO PARADISE

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