Crouching beneath the weather bulwarks, with their feet wedged against the low combing of the hatch, three men were vainly endeavouring to secure the boom, and to disentangle the clogged ropes.
His black dress-clothes were clinging to him with a soppy hindrance, while the feet firmly planted against the combing of the hatch were encased in immaculate patent-leather shoes, and the salt water ran off silk socks.
Beneath him, far down the slanting red cliffs dotted here and there with sombre pines, lay the castle pool, and over yonder to the right were the rocks on the other side where he had found Marmie combing her hair like any mermaid.
Five minutes later Fantine Le Grand, in pink wrapper, was watching in the glass Marrion's fingers curling and twisting and combing and puffing.
He always alleged that sleeping gave him a headache, and that having his hair brushed drove it away, particularly if the combing was performed by the soft hands of one of his four houris.
Daghang hunhun nga nadá sa ákung pagsudlay, My comb was full of hair after I finished combing it.
A; a1] {1} dress yarn for weaving by starching and combing it to eliminate fluff or lint and give it a degree of stiffness.
After which comes off a new skirmish, followed by the partial defeat of Reuben, who receives such a combing down (with sundry killed and wounded) as he remembers for a month thereafter.
This joint is constructed so that it may be easily altered, and by its means one of the most delicate settings of the combing machine, viz.
Dobson and Barlow have reconstructed the combing cylinder, and the parts being fitted together by simple turning or boring, accuracy and interchangeability can always be depended upon.
The object of combing is to remove the short staples and the dirt left in after the carding of the cotton, such as is used in the spinning of fine and even coarse numbers.
A very decided improvement has been made in the construction of the combing cylinder.
In short, in this most striking operation, the fiber during the combing is completely detached from the ribbon lap, carried over, and pieced to the tail end of the combed fleece, for a moment having no connection with either.
Combing machines are usually made with six heads, and sometimes with eight.
A common defect in combing machines is the flocking that frequently happens.
The popular songs of all countries frequently depict them combing their fine fair hair, which they seem daintily to cherish.
Fair Margaret sat in her bower-window, A combing of her hair, And there she spy’d Sweet William and his bride, As they were riding near.
Sir John Hawkins, in his "History of Music," published in 1776, has an informing note on combing customs.
He put the tray with the breakfast and the letter on the dressing-table, before which Becky sat combing her yellow hair.
When he came back, she had finished combing her hair, and it was all put up again; so he could not get a single hair.
Again, when they reached the meadows, the Princess undid her hair and began combing it.
Aunt Affy, wearing a calico loose gown of lilac and white, was seated in a rocker at the window combing her long gray hair: her hair was soft and thick, she twisted it into a coil, and behind her each ear she brushed a long curl.
She was combing her silver hair, and every hair that fell on the ground rang out like pure metal.
More wool is now worked up by the aid of the power-looms and combing machines at Ashburton and Buckfastleigh than in the old prosperous times.
Ulysses rowed by the Sirens' bank, he and his men did not care though a whole shoal of them were singing and combing their longest locks.
Helga was combing her hair and putting on her wraps.
Then she opened the door and stood for an instant on the threshold looking back at Thora where she sat combing out her hair before the stove.
While she was combing her hair, she was tempted to take the scissors and cut it off just to make herself ugly.
She was sitting by the cradle, combing her hair with slow deliberation.
On doorsills sat women combing their long, black hair and calling, one to another, across the narrow thoroughfares.
When he came back she had finished combing her hair and was putting it up again, and he could not get any of it.
He opened the door slowly, and one of the princesses was sitting there, and had nine dragon's heads lying upon her lap, and was combing them.
Then came a blast of wind and carried off Conrad's hat, so that he had to run far away, while the maiden quietly went on combing and plaiting her hair, all of which the King observed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
