The clamps, with the stricks, are then suspended again in the holders, the uncombed ends of the fibres hanging down upon the heckle barrel.
Into these lower needles the rough uncombed wool is to be fed by hand, and to be drawn out and combed straight by the movements of the upper or working comb.
A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fairuncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
The shopman's uncombed grey head came out and his unshaven reddened face, coughing.
What uncombed heads; what dirty faces; what scant and threadbare garments!
The same Irishman thrust out his uncombed head and unwashed face; the same words in the same vernacular language followed.
Mr. Pringle turned towards the student benignly enough, but in a way that made him feel how uncombed and unbrushed he was, and how uncombed and unbrushed, likewise, were his mind and thoughts.
The reboso, in itself graceful and convenient, has the disadvantage of being the greatest cloak for all untidiness, uncombed hair and raggedness, that ever was invented.
A woman without stays, with uncombedhair and reboso, had need to be very lovely, if she retain any attraction at all.
His dark, full curls felluncombed and uncared for over his rounded forehead and blooming face.
She was a stout, strong woman, her thick and coarse blond hair fell in uncombed masses from what had once been a black velvet cap, but which had now assumed a gray tint from age and constant wear.
The folks arose very reluctantly this morning, and appeared with swollen eyes and uncombed hair, for there was no means of making a toilet, without a drop of water, except what we had used in getting breakfast.
The women did not recover sufficient energy to remove their clothing, but slept as they were, and sat up and looked around withuncombed hair in the morning, perfect pictures of dejection.
It is also true that wearers of long and uncombed hair who are not writers, will scratch their heads in the same way, occasionally.
With a red face and uncombed locks he was pacing about the room in deshabille, talking to himself, apparently much agitated.
He was commendably neat in his personal habits, and was seldom caught with dirty hands and face, or uncombed hair, or soiled and ragged dress.
His uncombed hair was littered with straw and bits of corn-blades from the fodder on which he had lain.
The females wore a colored handkerchief tastily tied about their heads, when visiting or at church; and when not, not anything but blowzed, uncombed hair.
His ragged dress and uncombed hair, his shabby and dirty appearance, do not prevent us from seeing indications of his once having been in better circumstances, and that nature never designed that he should be where he now is.
