curling-irons

The one essentially natural touch about her appearance was the few curls, strangers to curling-irons, that escaped from under the little naughty hat of black velvet pulled low over the eyes.

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Humouring the mistake which Mrs. Crump had just made, Mr. Walker thrust the curling-irons into the fire in a minute, and looked round at the ladies with such a fascinating grace, that both, now made acquainted with his quality, blushed and giggled, and were quite pleased.

Mens Wives 2006

I never see a curling-irons before I entered your shop, or knew Naples from brown Windsor.

Burlesques 2006

I never see a curling-irons before I entered your shop, or knew Naples from brown Windsor.

Cox's Diary 2006

Your cheeks are pale, and have got faded by exposure to evening parties, and you are obliged to take curling-irons, and macassar, and the deuce-knows-what to your whiskers; they curl ambrosially, and you are very grand and genteel, and so forth; but, ah!

The History of Pendennis 2006

The use of curling-irons had coaxed the wisps of fine hair about her face into becoming ringlets.

The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

You had better bring the powder and curling-irons with you.

The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

-- The use of curling-irons is likely to dry and wither the hair.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. Various

We now come to King John, who ascended the throne after putting out his nephew's eyes with a pair of curling-irons, and who is the first English

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

Nautica hurried to a window, and now saw a blur of light through the fog, showing that the steamer had safely passed us; but, though she called joyously, she was not in time to stay the Commodore, who had already dashed into the cockpit beating the tongueless bell with her curling-irons.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins