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"Currycomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the Currycomb bunch all right," he admitted, soberly. "And I'd shore like to know what was the matter ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... prospect of glory attached to the situation of ostler, for the grooms and stable-boys occasionally talked of an ostler, a great way down the road, who had been presented by some sporting people, not with a silver vase, as our governor had been, but with a silver currycomb, in testimony of their admiration for his skill; but I confess that the poetry of rubbing down had become, as all other poetry becomes, rather prosy by frequent repetition, and with respect to the chance of deriving glory from the employment, I entertained, ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... though he botanize on his mother's grave. Borro-boolah-gah may know us by our India-rubber shirts and pictorial pocket-handkerchiefs; and King Mumbo Jumbo may reduce his rebellious locks to subjection with a Yankee currycomb; but these, our desert flowers, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

Words linked to "Currycomb" : comb