"Fine-tooth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... combed history, as it were, with a fine-tooth comb, and very few geniuses have escaped his notice. This paper, so far, is hardly more than a review of his extraordinarily comprehensive work; therefore, I will conclude this portion of it with a list of men of genius, ...
— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir
... we went over Rivers's place with a fine-tooth comb, and questioned young Gillis about it, and we didn't get a thing. You sure ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... Henry had an interview with Mr. Archer, who went over his books with a fine-tooth comb, and ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... 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." ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison |
