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Meanings of tortoiseshell comb in English

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Usage of tortoiseshell comb in English
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She picked up the tortoiseshell comb Mgina had always admired.
The clouds beneath the sun
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Her dark hair, which was high upon her head, was crowned with a large tortoiseshell comb.
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
3
He found a locket in the topmost drawer, with a curl of hair inside, and a tortoiseshell comb.
The story of cirrus flux
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Her brown hair was waved in front and done up behind in a great twist, held by a tortoiseshell comb with gold filigree.
The Song of the Lark
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You see a native woman clad in snow-white petticoats, a beautiful tortoiseshell comb fastened in her raven hair; you pass her-youlook back-wonderful
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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And there is more radium in the pretty gift of a tortoiseshell comb with its paste diamonds which Miss Wallace wore in her hair.
The War Terror
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Pandora could see some of his other possessions, too: a shiny silver locket, a tortoiseshell comb and a peculiar pendant shaped like a globe.
The story of cirrus flux
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Why are tortoiseshell combs like citadels?
My Book of Indoor Games
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Without a word, she let the mask drop from her fingers and put up her hands to take the tortoiseshell combs from her hair.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
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