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Cary police took cheek swabs, hair combings, blood samples and photographs of a 17-year-old Apex man charged with attacking a Cary couple in their 60s this past weekend. search warrant released Friday, police also give more details about the alleged attack.— WRAL.com Top Stories
And all the strange and curious sea jargon, of which not one landsman in a thousand understands anything--combings and back-stays and dead-eyes, and the rest of it--takes a salt smack of romance in his lips.— My Contemporaries In Fiction
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.— Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
At a later date, when the few fit men that our combings-out revealed had gone elsewhere, the unit was kept up to strength by the drafting-in either of C3 recruits or of soldiers who, having been at the front and been wounded, or invalided back, were marked for home duty only.— Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital
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.— Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
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