wooden-backed

Updated: July 12, 2025

"Yes, I'll wear 'em," he answered, snatching at his hairbrush and beginning to brush his damp hair. It was a wooden-backed brush that Pearson had found in his Gladstone bag and shudderingly laid in readiness on the dressing-table. "I guess they're all right, ain't they?" "Oh, quite right, sir, quite," Pearson ventured "for morning wear." "Morning?" said Tembarom, brushing vigorously. "Not night?"

Frances Hodgson Burnett - T. Tembarom