" "Well," added the young girl, "the next time he asks you, answer him: 'This is what my sister does: When she laughs the sun shines; when she weeps it rains; when she combs her hair, legs of mutton fall; when she goes from one place to another, roses drop.'

'Since all my fingers are useless,' he wrote to Hannah More, 'and that I have only six hairs left, I am not very much grieved at not being able to comb my head!'

They take great pains in cleaning their teeth, combing their long beards, and keeping their nails pared extremely close.

Your sweetheart does not comb your locks, But your harsh stepdame, Care.

the British lion, After a pause to comb his mane, Is grimly padding off again, Tail up, en route for Zion.

Ayay, the cow is sick, I think; and mind me, being country-bred, Of a cure for such: which is, to buy a comb And comb the sufferer's tail at feeding-time.

And with both hands he combed his whiskers in a despair that was comic and yet pitiful.

Now he combed the whole area for some means of identifying the third man who had been on the mountainside.

Dames of highest rank still spent their days over the distaff or in combing flax.

The order was given, and the men combed the wheat with a fusillade.

The only thing that kept Alia from foaming at the mouth was because she was combing her Dutch braid.

So he went up, and found the stranger sitting upright in bed, combing his curls with his fingers, and chaunting unto himself a cheerful ditty.

As for you, because you tried to do evil to your good sister, you shall sit at the bottom of the lake forever, combing out the seeds you have hidden in your hair."

We can just comb the whole district over, and anything that looks like the stolen aeroplane is sure to catch our attention from this height, don't you think so, Andy?" "I reckon it will, Frank; but the only thing bothers me is that things may have worked all right with the rascals, and by now they're away off, so far distant that we'll never in the wide world get in touch with them, the more the pity.

He was obliged to go to Paris again, to comb the city in his search for the things he wanted to buy.

" To his surprise, however, Mr. Fitzgerald made his appearance at the stable just as he was beginning to comb the horse.

The court held them a lawful organization and their literature was not disloyal nor inciting to violence, though the government had combed the country from Chicago to Seattle for witnesses, and used every pamphlet taken from their hall in government raids.

Miss Farrow still had long and luxuriant hair, and perhaps the pleasantest half-hour in each day had come to be that half-hour just before she dressed for dinner, when Pegler, with gentle, skilful fingers, brushed and combed her mistress's beautiful tresses, and finally dressed them to the best advantage.

" "In an effort to locate this particular band of naval spies," continued Mr. Fleck, "we have combed the apartment houses and residences along the Drive.

FULLER'S TEAVEL.The heads of this plant are used for combing kerseymeres and finer broad cloths.

good enough; we'll comb the lakes until we find out who is sailing aboard the Seminole.

They followed the course of the river generally, intending to cover possibly something like eighty or ninety miles before trying to comb the land from side to side, in the endeavor to find the strange cliff enclosed valley.

The throat and eyes are terribly affected, and it is necessary to work with the head bound up, and to comb the lint from the eyebrows.

This scent I had acquired by currying and combing my mares for hours, clipping their manes and fetlocks, and handling them all over to see if they were free from blemishes.

Nigg's allotted task upon this occasion was to "comb out" certain German dug-outs.