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Example sentences for "gray hair"

  • It was the old man in the spectacles with large round glasses and the iron-gray hair.

  • I cannot say just how old the Tutor is, but I do not detect a gray hair in his head.

  • The Major, a handsome man of powerful physique and a great shock of curly, iron-gray hair, approached Adele, and with a low bow held out his hand.

  • She was a thin woman with iron-gray hair, and about fifty years of age.

  • He had no beard except a tuft of gray hair on his chin, and his teeth, being few and far between, gave to his cheeks a hollow appearance.

  • Bishop sniffed and ran a steady hand over his short, gray hair.

  • The old man was feeling his gray hair, thoughtfully.

  • Brown stood behind the door, in a gown of figured calico, his feet bare, his shock of gray hair dishevelled.

  • Not a gray hair in thy head, Miss Tower, nor even a gray thought.

  • She had intuitions about the people who came to buy, and this tall spare man with the slight droop of his shoulders, his upstanding bush of gray hair, his shell glasses on a black ribbon was, she was aware, having the time of his life.

  • More customers, among them a tall spare man with an upstanding bush of gray hair.

  • He was a picturesque figure in an enveloping cape and a soft hat pulled down over his gray hair, and with white flakes powdered over his shoulders.

  • Maturity was all that was indicated by his handsome, smooth–shaven face, his compact and elegant figure, his iron–gray hair.

  • The head was shocking to look at, being bruised and black; and the long, gray hair, hanging down tangled and disordered.

  • Her iron-gray hair, her false teeth, her prominent nose, and her rather cruel steel-gray eyes made themselves felt all down the long room.

  • Miss Mackenzie was between sixty and seventy years of age; she always dressed in the severest and most old-fashioned manner, and wore her iron-gray hair in ringlets on each side of her head.

  • He was a tall man of about fifty with wavy, gray hair.

  • I was introduced to Sir Walter, a delightful man, with a hooked nose, a tiny mustache, the remains of gray hair, and a charming smile.

  • I knew you would, David," she whispered, in the tender way she had, her hand pressing back his short gray hair.

  • In all that riot of blondness and sparkle and youth, just as riotous, just as lovely, a streak of gray hair!

  • I've seen it in boys before, but never in a girl--an absolutely isolated streak of gray hair!

  • Her face was like that of a mummy, surrounded with curls of gray hair, which tossed about at every step she took and made me think, I know not why, of a pickled herring in curl papers.

  • He was dirty, bald on top of his head, with a fringe of iron-gray hair falling on the collar of his frock coat.

  • The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair.

  • The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose locks of gray hair.

  • Mr. Farley laid a soothing hand on her mouse-gray hair, dry and silky like fur.

  • Mrs. Farley turned her head a little and there were spiked wisps of iron-gray hair clinging on the nape of her scrawny, freckled neck.

  • Mrs. Farley's mouse-gray hair hung in straight wisps below the edge of her shiny old black velvet turban which was tilted askew.

  • But maybe one of you might know of a little gent with iron-gray hair and a thin face and quick ways of acting and little, thin hands.

  • The foreman took off his hat and shook back his long, iron-gray hair.

  • Not very big; hands like the claws of a bird's; iron-gray hair; quick ways.

  • She was short in stature, had iron-gray hair, was slight and stooped, and wore a plain gingham dress and a sunbonnet of the same material.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowed myself; council held; exceeding great; fresh milk; gray color; gray colour; gray eyes; gray hair; gray horse; gray paper; gray squirrel; gray stone; gray wolf; grayish brown; grayish white; mile north; million people; nationalize slavery; open warfare; over with; police department; quote from; strange place; well acquainted; what land; wish that