Comb
Comb verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Fit
Fit verb - To be in agreement on every point.
Both words in one sentence
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In "The Young Slave", the heroine is the illegitimate niece of a lord, whose wife finds her in enchanted sleep and, in a fit of jealousy, beats her, knocking loose the comb that had kept her asleep, and turns her into a slave, abusing her so severely she thinks of killing herself.
Source: Damsel in Distress
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