wool-comber

Then the goddess [Aphrodite] spoke to her [Helen] in the likeness of an old woman, a wool-comber who used to card wool for her when she lived in Lacedaemon… “Come here!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Then the goddess [Aphrodite] spoke to her [Helen] in the likeness of an old woman, a wool-comber who used to card wool for her when she lived in Lacedaemon… “Come here!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Then the goddess [Aphrodite] spoke to her [Helen] in the likeness of an old woman, a wool-comber who used to card wool for her when she lived in Lacedaemon… “Come here!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Then the goddess [Aphrodite] spoke to her [Helen] in the likeness of an old woman, a wool-comber who used to card wool for her when she lived in Lacedaemon… “Come here!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Sir Thomas Lucy, Stratford lost an indifferent wool-comber, and the world gained an immortal poet.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

No! he was forever disgraced in his own eyes, when he remembered the valiant John Leclerc; and it was not to be permitted that Victor Le Roy should follow the example of the wool-comber in preference to that he had given, -- that politic, wise, blood-sparing, flesh -- loving, truth-depreciating, God-defrauding example.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

But this was no such evening as had been spent in the room of the wool-comber, when

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Among them was the wool-comber, -- wounded with many stripes, branded,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Being the eldest of four children, and his father a poor wool-comber, much care devolved upon him.

A Brief History of the United States

In the year 1431, Richard Ilvedon, a wool-comber, and a citizen of

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe