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He would spend hours in decorating his person, but not a moment in cleansing it: I believe no tradition exists of an Indian ever having used soap or bought a fine-tooth comb!
At the third floor they got out and turned to the right. With the Yale key his cousin had given him Kirby opened the door of Apartment 12. He knew that there was not an inch of space in the rooms that the police and the newspaper reporters had not raked as with a fine-tooth comb for clues. The desk had been ransacked, the books and magazines shaken, the rugs taken up.
You might comb Texas with a fine-tooth comb an' you'd never rake out such another." "If that ain't Mart Palmer, the Ring Tailed Panther, I'll go straight to Santa Anna an' ask him to shoot me as a fool." "You won't have to go to Santa Anna." Smith rode from the covert, put his curved hand to his mouth, and uttered a long piercing cry.
In the meantime, Reynolds' relations had the reservoir dredged, the Hudson raked, the Harlem scooped, and all of the sinister byways of the metropolis searched as with a fine-tooth comb. A vast reward was offered for the return of the young man, dead, or alive or maimed.
Ain't there been times when whole bunches of live-wire reporters, not to mention relays of court deputies, have raked New York with a fine-tooth comb, lookin' for Gedney Nash, without even gettin' so much as a glimpse of his limousine rollin' round a corner. "Suppose we circle the block once or twice, while I tear off a few Sherlock Holmes thoughts?" says I. Mr.
"Scrape Arizona with a fine-tooth comb and you couldn't get a jury to convict when it's up against the facts in this case." At this she brightened. "Thank you, Mr. Flatray." And naïvely she added with a little laugh: "Are you ready to put the handcuffs on me yet?" He looked with a smile at her outstretched hands. "They wouldn't stay on." "Don't you carry them in sizes to fit all criminals?"
"Yes, and he'd be sure then that Robinson would go through all the mailed ads with a fine-tooth comb, after that. But why the pin-pricks? Just to disguise his hand?" "Possibly. It's a fairly effectual disguise." "Why didn't he address the envelope that way, then?" "The address wouldn't be legible against the white background of the paper inside.
It's only founded on your Indian hate, you say yourself." "That's right," said Newman. "Are you sure we aren't wasting time, Billy?" Billy turned in the saddle to face them. "Well, boys," he said, "you've got half the county scratching the desert with a fine-tooth comb. I don't see how we three can help very much there. On the other hand we might do some good up here.
And in that same neighborhood, if it lies to the eastward, there are cooks who know the art of planking a shad in season not the arrangement of the effete East, consisting of a greased skin wrapped round a fine-tooth comb and reposing on a charred clapboard but a real shad; and if it lies to the southward one will surely find in the same vicinity a possum of a prevalent dark brown tint, with sweet potatoes baked under him and a certain inimitable, indescribable dark rich gravy surrounding him, and on the side corn pones without any sugar in them.
I certainly meant to be back by the time you had finished breakfast and explain the whole situation to you there are a deuced lot of complications, you know but one thing led right on to another and good Lord! I couldn't find a minute with a fine-tooth comb." "It's all right, statesman. You don't hear me making any complaints.
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