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  • By this time Quivalen Sath had reached the other side of the moat, from where the well-tossed, iron-forged soldier must have stung considerably when it struck him on the back of his well-combed poetic head, and from where a nine-year-old would-be assassin could make himself virtually invisible, hidden among the clematis and ivy and the much more common weeds, undetected by even the sharpest of elvish eyes.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • But I never buy smoething just because some well-combed head on the teevee tells me it's so.

    The Giants Among Us Steve Hulett 2009

  • What else can those wavy well-combed locks mean or that face, rouged and covered with cosmetics, or that languishing, wanton expression in your eyes?

    Satyricon 2007

  • Adrian Urmand, in spite of his white hands and his well-combed locks and the silk lining to his coat, had so much of the spirit of

    The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

  • She could see, as though present to her at the moment, the mealy, floury head of the one, with hair stiff with perennial dust from his sacks, and the sweet glossy dark well-combed locks of the other, so bright, so seductive, that she was ever longing to twine her fingers among them.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • ‘Now we shall not be parted!’ he cried, patting Malek-Adel on the neck, under his well-combed mane.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • “And how strong they all are, how sound physically,” thought Alexey Alexandrovitch, looking at the powerfully built gentleman of the bedchamber with his well-combed, perfumed whiskers, and at the red neck of the prince, pinched by his tight uniform.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • Yuranigh was particularly clean in his person, frequently washing, and his glossy shining black hair, always well-combed, gave him an uncommonly clean and decent appearance.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • It was caught between two well-combed beaches but hidden by rocks and the way it was carved deeply out of the shoreline.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

  • It was caught between two well-combed beaches but hidden by rocks and the way it was carved deeply out of the shoreline.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

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