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The said gentleman is a citizen of respectable appearance wearing a large full-bottom'd peruke, which though it has never been comb'd is as smooth as on the first day it was form'd.
Letter 222 2009
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Nor comb'd with art her tresses seem'd; full plain,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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See you all these quilts? there is not one of them whose wadding is not the finest comb'd wooll of violet or scarlet colour, dy'd in grain.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Art, which was by pulling it out with a quill, and keeping it comb'd; of which he took particular care.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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At this promise of mine, becoming more chearful, she fell a kissing me thick and threefold, and turning the humour of tears into laughing, she comb'd up some hair that hung over my face with her fingers, and,
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well,
Forsaken Merman 1919
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She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well,
Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 1884
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She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well,
The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore 1859
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She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well,
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1855
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