pocket-comb

The twilight was deepening and the shadows were heavy, when he came round the point, with his hat hanging at his button-hole, smoothing his wet hair with one of his hands, and picking out the old path with the other and a pocket-comb.

Hunted Down 2007

The twilight was deepening and the shadows were heavy, when he came round the point, with his hat hanging at his button-hole, smoothing his wet hair with one of his hands, and picking out the old path with the other and a pocket-comb.

Hunted Down 2007

And now Mr. Whip Vigil had buttoned on that well-made frock with which the Parliamentary world is so conversant, and as he descended the stairs, arranged with pocket-comb his now grizzling locks.

The Three Clerks 2004

By a similar contrivance he converted the little dressing-table into a species of altar, on which he set forth two silver teaspoons, a flower-pot, a telescope, his celebrated watch, a pocket-comb and a song-book, as a small collection of rareties that made a choice appearance.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

The springs which close the hospital door, the bands which excludes the drafts from doors and windows, his pocket-comb and cup and thimble are of the same material.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

The bunch of picklocks clattered upon the desk, mixed up with a handkerchief, a powder compact and a pocket-comb.

Strong Poison Sayers, Dorothy L. 1930

Then he sat on his bed, naked except for his shirt, combing his moustache and beard very carefully with a pocket-comb.

The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

He wore a magnificent gold watch and chain, and jewelled rings flashed from his white fingers as he, in absent moments, daintily passed a small pocket-comb through the meshes of his lustrous brown side-whiskers.

Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903

He has described him exactly, even to his stick and his pocket-comb.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

They grow from six to twelve inches long and a couple of inches wide, with legs or feelers all along their sides, like the teeth of a pocket-comb.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900