combing

"It wasn't just a tangle, like combings," she went on slowly.

Nor will the door hold itself open-Hedge witch combings don't be trusted.

There were only one or two of the hands on board, and these were busy forward, doing something to the forecastle combings.

The rest of him had been put together from knotted rope, brown leather, and wet polar bear combings.

The cabin hatches and combings above deck were mahogany, "plainly but beautifully finished".

Also his combings were used for Merchant Seamen.'

In this case, there are two cohomologically distinct combings; all of the others are linear combinations.

The station sold a total of 19 bales of AAA combings for the record price.

Ten bob I got for Molly's combings when we were on the rocks in Holles street.

Green's team also examined the hair combings taken from Alex, and found flakes of red paint that matched Napper's toolbox.

In 1954 10 bales of AAA combings attracted price of 114d.

"I almost feel sorry for you," she was saying, "but I know that you can't really be cold with those golden combings on you.

His grandparents' clothes still hung in the closets, his grandmother's brushes were on her dresser with combings of hair in them.

After all, it was Walt Whitman who described lobbyists as "crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combings and born freedom sellers of the earth."

He recognized them as a few combings from the Original Great Fleece of Colchis.

"You analyzed the pubic hair combings in the rape kit, didn't you, Ms. Martine?"

The Combing of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

More generally, on an n-dimensional torus T, one can consider the various combings of k-forms on the torus.

The crew's movements seemed spectacularly fast and fluid on a vessel that was heeling over so sharply that water was pouring over the combings.

These golden fabrics came from combings of the Great Golden Fleece of Colchis itself.

The clinicians drew two vials of blood, plucked several strands of hair from Como's head, then took additional combings from his pubic region.

She was the author of a recent collection of Poems, A Woman Combing, in addition to Seductions and an unpublished novel entitled Sammy.

This was evident externally due to use of an enlarged driver's hatch and enlarged combings over the commander's and loader's hatch to accommodate the new material.

STEVE: Combing, combing - exactly.

Breathing, pulsating surfaces of labyrinthine whorls and lines, they suggest rippling water, the combings of plowed land, the heavings and foldings of earth and ocean.