Two, smaller and more retiring, stand upon the verge of the high-combed house-roof and look down in friendly greeting.
We should like to think of life as flowing on serenely in that pretty cottage on Henderson Street, Columbia, its wide front veranda crowned with a combed roof supported by a row of white columns.
The Swan was a long, two-storied structure with combed roof, tall chimneys at the ends, and a front piazza with a long flight of steps leading down to the street.
He warmed the water forthwith, and gave all the dogs and cats a bath apiece, and then he combed and brushed them nicely.
In Coralio Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as carefully as a woman combs her hair; but the money was not found.
These he wore with impressiveness and distinction while he combedbeaches and extracted toll from his friends.
But she wore not so much as a rose in her smoothly combed hair.
New suit, new shoes, snappy cravat right from the Men's Quality Shop, and all shaved and combed slick and everything!
All the processes must be well performed--for the very fine thread fiber must be combed to remove poor fiber.
It is made from combed cotton yarns of long-stapled stocks to resemble as closely as possible fine linen fabrics.
In a strand of combed wool, called top, no single fiber lies across the strand; all lie in the direction of the length.
The combing process is practically the same in both cases, but the wool is combed dry for the French system, and by the English method the stock is thoroughly oiled before being combed.
It must be understood, however, that under the present methods of manufacture, short wools may be combed and spun by the French method of spinning just as the long wools are combed and spun by the Bradford or English system.
When the lap of cotton leaves the picker it goes to the carding machine, where it is combed into parallel fibers by means of a revolving cylinder covered with wire teeth called card clothing.
Combed wool yarn for ornamental needlework and knitting, as Berlin, Zephyr, and Saxony wools.
The short wool is combed for thick counts for weft and hosiery, and is also used for shawls and cloths where felting is not an essential feature.
After it is bleached and combed it makes a fine silky fiber, one-half the weight of linen, and three times stronger than hemp.
Gently draw out this strand of combed long fibers known as top.
When you combed the wool with the fine comb what happened?
Once or twice a day he combed it, and ever he was most careful to keep it out of wet or dirt.
Always wore his hair in that way, well floured and larded, except when it was too hot, and combed down straight on each side of his ugly face.
The encounter occurred on the starboard side of the skylight, alongside of which Lerumie was standing as he gazed into a cheap trade-mirror and combedhis kinky hair with a hand-carved comb of wood.
The girls washed their hands and combed out their luxurious hair and made themselves as smart as possible, and then, an anxious trio, they went out and stood on the landing.
There was interest in this beetling border, too, for it was honey-combed with quaint caves and arches and tunnels, and had a rude semblance of the dilapidated architecture of ruined keeps and castles rising out of the restless sea.
They project as closely together as the iron teeth of a corn-sheller, and if one will stand up straight and walk any distance there, he can get his hair combed free of charge.
When she combedher hair, she gathered the combings together.
He combed and oiled his hair, and put on his best robe, and painted his face black.
Molly fancied she washed and dressed him well enough; but to-day she seemed to see more clearly, and sighed as she thought of the hard job in store for her if she gave him the thorough washing he needed, and combed out that curly mop of hair.
He had a cold and no handkerchief, his little hands were red with chilblains, his clothes shabby, he had untidy darns in the knees of his stockings, and a head of tight curls that evidently had not been combed for some time.
Marta washed Pappina, combed her hair, and tried to smooth out her dress and make her acceptable to Guiseppe; but he seemed determined not to be pleased.
Her English face shone with pleasure as she washed Pappina, combed her hair, and dressed her, clean and rested, for breakfast.
Rising at dark, with skins irritated by atoms of husk which had penetrated our clothing, we combed out our matted hair and beards--a very faint essay toward making our toilets.
Never since the Atotarho covered his face from Hiawatha--never since the snakes were combed from his hair--has a Priest of the Long House dared to doubt the Prophetess of the Seneca nation.
Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament," replied the priest, passing his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combedback across his bald head.
Then he took off his nightcap, combed his hair over his temples, and donned his cap.
And then she carelessly combed the tangled curls that fell about her like the spray of a waterfall.
Then she bathed her face and combed the tangles out of her hair.
The iron-grey hair was carefully combed back from his withered countenance; his keen eyes gleamed from their hollow orbits, imparting an appearance of mysterious vitality to the ancient stock-rider.
The fine hair or “pushta,” combed from near the skin, in contrast to the coarse outer fleece, was worth a guinea a pound.
Thus, in Leghorn Fowls the brown, white, and buff varieties have single-combed and rose-combed subvarieties.
The rose comb was preferred and the single-combed birds were discarded as culls.
From the three last-named varieties came the Plymouth Rock varieties of the corresponding colors, the first stocks of these being the single-combed specimens from the flocks of breeders of these varieties of Wyandottes.
These men want the lions of the Atlas to be combed and scented like a lady's poodle.
When one has finished one’s ablutions, combed one’s hair and fastened one’s gown, one should clean the basin and place the soiled towels out of the way.
Madam,” he said, “I believe you would be a much happier woman if you combed your hair becomingly and put on a fresh gown oftener.
But later, as Mr. Landis unlaced his shoes and his wife took off her white Mennonite cap and combed her hair for the night, that mild man sputtered and stormed.
You would have seen a sight if you had; a woman who hasn’t combed her hair for six years, because she has that old hen to look after, besides the care of the children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
