I took down all the combings for the birds and they are crazy about them.
I had brought down all the combings from our three heads, well knowing how the birds delight in hair as a building material.
Use malt-combings as a feeding stuff, and not as a manure.
The finest of these are made from human hair; and for this purpose the combings are carefully kept, twisted into strands, and wound on thorns or sticks in slender bobbins, such as that illustrated in figure 31.
Blodwen Gruffydd saw the return first, if, indeed, that vague speck lost in the grey combings were they.
We had now fallen so much on the side that we stood with our feet on the combings of the hatchways, with our backs against the deck.
I was standing at this time in no enviable position, my feet rested on the combingsof the main hatchway with my back against the deck.
In Corea all the clippings and combings of the hair of a whole family are carefully preserved throughout the year and then burned in potsherds outside the house on the evening of New Year's Day.
Most Burmese and Shans tie the combings of their hair and the parings of their nails to a stone and sink them in deep water or bury them in the ground.
I took it from a bag of combings that hung on the wall of Miriam Goldstein's bedroom," answered the detective.
I assumed that they had been taken from Miriam Goldstein's hair-brush; but the sergeant's evidence makes it pretty clear that they were obtained from the very bag of combings from which he took a sample for comparison.
The whole of the hatches and combings were blasted away, and a clean sweep had been made for fully thirty feet onward, and twenty or so across; and everywhere was of a blackish grey, showing the effects of the blasting-powder.
The noise of the talking brought a female figure to the combings of the companionway, and as the skipper finished, Miss Sackett stood on deck.
His small black mustache was worked into points under the pressure of his nervous fingers, and he sat on the hatch-combings apart from all save Johnson.
Her hatch-combings were high, and the sea had not washed clear over them yet, while her high strakes would be all the tighter, now that they had been under water for days.
The men on watch were grouped about the waist, sitting on the combings of the after-hatch, or walking fore and aft in the gangways to keep the blood stirring.
When she combed her hair, she gathered the combings together.
And as the birds pursued her, she poured out all the hair oil, and put combings around it, and it became a large lake with masses of fallen trees about it.
Then as she ran on, she threw down her hair combings and again they became great masses of fallen trees.
One of her forecastle-men told me that he had used up three jack-knives (charged to him on the books of the purser) in scraping the belaying-pins and the combings of the hatchways.
Mark answered the question by stumbling up the ladder till he could put his face over the combings of the hatch, and breathe the air blowing over the vessel, Tom Fillot following suit.
I made for it, and as I found my hands grasping the combings of the gun-room skylight, the brig, with a sudden jerk, righted again.
The water almost reached the combings of the hatches: everybody on deck thought we were gone.
They were but just in time, when some dark heads were seen rising up above the combings of the hatchway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
