currycombing

The hurried sounds of currycombing, raking, and leather polishing spread through the huge barn as the pages noticed the lords coming.

True Heart Kathleen Duey 2003

The hurried sounds of currycombing, raking, and leather polishing spread through the huge barn as the pages noticed the lords coming.

True Heart Kathleen Duey 2003

The pony, Dumpling (brown and round as one of Cook's best dumplings), and the donkey, Stupid (which he was not), watched her with half-closed eyes as old Tarn gave them a carefully currycombing, brushing out clouds of winter hair.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

He put me in front of a rousing fire, gave a drink of new corn whiskey to thaw me out, went out and groomed Jim, and then came back and did the same for me, rubbing me down in no gentle currycombing, for well he realized that I was on the verge of physical collapse.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

A groom was currycombing a horse, and outside the coach-house was Mr. Oke's little high-wheeled cart.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

A groom was currycombing a horse, and outside the coach-house was Mr. Oke's little high-wheeled cart.

A Phantom Lover Vernon Lee 1895

A GROOM used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit.

Fables Aesop 1880

A Groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his

Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources 620 BC-563 BC Aesop 1865

He is very active and assiduous in his duties, currycombing and rubbing down the horses with alacrity and skill; and, when not otherwise occupied, you may see him talking jovially with chance acquaintances, or observing what is going forward in the street.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834