side-combs

Me? she repeated, feeling one of the tortoise-shell side-combs slip from her hair and land with a patter on the floor.

SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

To Susie, these things, along with side-combs and petticoats that rustled, were symbols of that elegance which she longed to attain.

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

Mrs. Hastings leaned back and consulted St. George through her tortoise-shell glasses, tilting her head high to keep them on her nose and perpetually putting their gold chain over her ear, which perpetually pulled out her side-combs.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Mrs. Hastings in tears was superintending the search for both side-combs.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Frothingham, in indescribably gorgeous apparel elaborately bent to receive -- and a member of the High Council bent to hand -- two glittering articles which St. George was certain were side-combs.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Her tortoise-shell glasses fell to her lap and both her side-combs tinkled melodiously to the tiled floor.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Mrs. Hastings collapsed softly on the divan, her glasses fallen in her lap, her side-combs slipping silently to the rug.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Her hair, which was exceedingly pretty, now rippled becomingly about her flushed face and was guiltless of side-combs -- she had lost them both down a chasm in that headlong flight from the cliff's summit, and they irrecoverably reposed in the bed of some brook of the Miocene period.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Her plump hands were covered with jewels, but for all the richness of her gown she gave the impression of being very badly dressed; things of jet and metal bobbed and ticked upon her, and her side-combs were continually falling about.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

There the lady sat, tilting her head to keep her tortoise-shell glasses on her nose, perpetually curving their chain over her ear, a gesture by which the side-combs were perpetually displaced.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906