hair-brush

He fingered everything with his dirty little hands, and finally took up a small comb from a hair-brush and slipped it into his pocket.

Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

"He won't need a hair-brush, or a razor, or a gold watch where he's gone."

Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

And, hanging up before a little looking-glass in the bar, in the immediate vicinity of the bread and cheese and biscuits, were a public comb and hair-brush.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

I drove straight to Burnet House, almost the finest edifice in the town, and after travelling a thousand miles in forty-two hours, without either water or a hair-brush, it was the greatest possible luxury to be able to remove the accumulations of soot, dust, and cinders of two days and nights.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Pantaleone as zealously brushed away with the other — the hair-brush — at his boots and trousers.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Pantaleone put the bottle on the floor, ran out and returned at once with two brushes, one a hair-brush, and one a clothes-brush.

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Her hair-brush clattered to the floor as she jumped off the bed and came after me.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

I moved across to the lumpy dressing-table, cautiously raising its protective cloth to reveal hair-brush, powder, manicure implements, crystal scent bottle.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

In my case, they had been longer than for most people: Very little remained of the girl whose hair-brush lay on the table, whose books inhabited the shelves.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Sliding open the top drawer of the chest beneath the wash-basin, I found Father's razor and soap-brush, and below it Mother's hair-brush and pins, but little of a more ephemeral nature.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005