That had been its choicest covert, that disheveled tangle where the birds held perpetual carnival, the weasel lurked in the underbrush and the rabbit lined his windfall.
She slipped down upon the bare floor and crouched there shuddering and agonized, her disheveled hair wet with her tears.
With heavy hands Shirley put into place herdisheveled hair and rose to meet him.
He looked on the ground, with his largedisheveled head drooping.
In the evening of the same day she had learned that the wife of one of Zansaylov's clerks had been drowned in the pond--a little woman with black disheveled hair, who always walked at a brisk gait.
He had long, dark, disheveled hair; his face was thin and clean shaven; he had a large pointed nose and some wrinkles around his mouth.
At the sight of her beautifuldisheveled hair, Hlawa's face changed, his cheeks flamed and then paled.
Mr. Hammon's calling you," said Jim, then blinked at the wretchedly disheveled woman.
She was more disheveled than ever, her eyes were rolling, her cheeks were livid, her hair seemed to bristle from its fastenings.
Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly.
My mother's hat fell off, her hair became all disheveled and spread over her back; she essayed to parry the blows, but she could not escape from them.
Her long dark hair, the counterpart of his wife's, had fallen down, and hung disheveled about her shoulders.
It might have been some sordid quarter of an Italian town that they drove through, so oddly foreign were the disheveled houses, their predominant color a heavy, glaring red.
She half-started up, dashed back her wild, disheveled black hair, and gazed upon him with a sharp, suspicious look.
Ramabai, calm and unruffled as ever, stepped forward and was about to address the people, when the disheveled captain of the guard, whom Umballa had sent to the arena lions, pushed his way to the foot of the platform.
The disheveled appearance of the man did not in her eyes confirm this.
I, gloomy, inexorable, the calves of my legs swelling under the violet silk tight garment, my hair disheveledby the wind.
We were hardly out, when the wind freshened; it disheveled Juliette's hair.
At six o'clock DeLancy rose up suddenly, disheveled and haggard, staring at them, bewildered at the pressure of the straps.
Juan accepted, and Maria was rejoiced to be able to make a display of her hair, for it is well known that the maidens who bear one another to the grave walk with disheveled locks.
I warn you," said the mayor, "that you are desirous of entering upon a very knotty bargain, for the disheveled girl idolizes her hair in such wise that she would sooner lose a finger than suffer one of her tresses to be cut off.
Her nose had taken on the livid sharpness of the dead; her great mass of hair, reddening under the blow, was disheveled in golden, undulating tangles.
Ferragut in his imagination saw the white, disheveled hair of Michelet and the romantic foretop of Lamartine upon a double pedestal of volumes which used to contain the story-poem of the Revolution.
Philip Anson, a ragged boy of fifteen, residing in a desolate nook of the most disheveled district in the East End, possessed the very genesis of the mystery, yet the web of fate was destined to weave a spell that would deftly close his lips.
A rapid twist of his hand sent a vivid beam of light dancing over ruined tenements, disheveled doorways and shattered windows.
Without dressing himself and not feeling the cold, he sat down in the first armchair he found, stroking his disheveled beard, and fixed his eyes in deep, calm thoughtfulness upon the unfamiliar plaster figures of the ceiling.
He surveyed them all with one swift, suspicious, wild glance from under his disheveled hair.
Out of the disheveled frame of hair and beard his black eyes looked wildly and sharply with an almost insane expression.
In his night-clothes, with his bearddisheveled by his restless movements, with his angry eyes, the dignitary resembled any other angry old man who suffered with insomnia and shortness of breath.
As one possessed, George rushed out of the cabin, and a moment later stood disheveled and frantic before Kate.
When she returned an hour later, with flying hair and disheveled costume, no one paid particular attention to her.
The calico dresses which the girls had received from the Indians, had become torn by riding through brake, briars and brush, and with their soiled faces and disheveled hair, made them objects of pity.
Their feelings of sorrow for their murdered relatives mixed with the uncertainty of their own fate, and their disheveled hair and soiled cheeks through which their tears washed courses, made them objects of woeful misery.
Astounded at this eloquent and brave woman with disheveled hair and face flashing a wild spiritual light, the persecutors pronounced her mad, and refused to put her to death.
A few moments of strange silence followed, then everybody sprang up, disheveled and red-faced, to look around and see what was the matter.
Her yellow hair was disheveled so that it appeared to surround her face with a flickering light which to Tolliver's mind gave it a most beautiful and altogether lovely expression.
Every face was pinched with intense excitement and looked haggard under its crown of disheveled hair.
Marie and I grew hysterical at her modesty, looking at her big, knobby feet and her fiery face, with her top-knot of disheveled red hair.
And the girl at his side, already disheveled and muddied by their hands-- His mind could go no farther, and angry protest broke in a low cry from his lips.
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