I telegraphed for him, to my old friend the Colonel, and learned, with satisfaction, that not a hair of TOM'S head had been shortened.
The yellow colour of its hair was relieved by streaks and regular oblong spots of black, which contrasted with the white of its chest.
Cyrus Harding had profited by a moment when he was sleeping, to cut his hair and matted beard, which formed a sort of mane, and gave him such a savage aspect.
The jaguar advanced and gazed around him with blazing eyes, his hair bristling as if this was not the first time he had scented man.
His face, tropically tanned, contrasted effectively with the close-cropped hair and mustache, lustrous-white as his ship.
Macready made a mental appointment with his God, and yelled presently: "Didn't I tell you 'twould take more than the sphit of a mountain to singe the hair of him?
Across the lawn, through the roaring black, he bore her, brushing her fingers and her fallen hair from his eyes.
And then, I saw your fine white brow, the ignited magic of your hair and eyes, your frail exquisite shoulders.
Rare running-mates were Macready and Ernst, odd as two white men can be, but matched to a hair in courage.
I know nothing of the color of your hairor eyes, nothing of your size or appearance,--only just how you impressed another.
Peter Stock entered, his white hair and mustache dulled with ash; his eyes red and angry.
Her head had lain, upon his shoulder during that precipitous plunge, and her hair had fallen when he first caught her up.
His white clothing was stained from the saddle, his hairand eyebrows whitened with dust.
She was thinking of Charter's book as she brushed her hair dry.
It settled in the hair of the children, and complicated the toil of bees in the nectar-cups.
I didn't like the way myhair looked, and was changing it when I saw you coming--and the Black behind you.
Miss; what beautiful hairyou have, now that it is combed out!
Whilst Augusta was still combing out her hair with sighs of delight, Mrs. Thomas knocked at the door and was admitted.
She's loveliness, hair drawn as curtains signalling the clouds, eyes that beckon twin doves to flight, in swift passage, like the arrows.
Once we saw him speak, as he took off his hat to remove the hair from his heated forehead, and this gave us an opportunity of seeing his front face, and his features in action.
Her beautiful hair hung in rich waving tresses over her shoulders; her face was kindling with pleasure at sight of her old friends; and her whole appearance was animated and glowing.
The sleet was even grateful to me, and I bared my brow till hair and skin were wet with the rain.
As she sat there, with her white arms moving athwart her lap, and her hair tossed over her shoulders, I could have clasped her to my heart.
At the sight of me he came out and stood before me, as wild a figure as I ever hope to see--clothes in tatters, hair unkempt, and skin all foul with the dirt of the moors.
To my wonder, at the staircase foot I met Anne, dressed, but with herhair all in disorder.
Her hair was not so daintily arranged as was her wont.
Her hair hung over her neck as brown as the soft fur of a squirrel, and the fire filled it with fantastic shadows.
His face was narrow and kindly; blue eyes, like a Northman, a thin, twitching lip, and hair well turned to silver.
The sunlight smote her full in the face and set her hair all aglow, as if she were the Madonna.
The long, ragged growth of hairon lip and chin, and the dirt on his cheeks, made him unlike my friend of the past.
Then she stopped exhausted, smiled on Eff, who sat like a cinder-witch all the while, and smoothed the hair from her brow.
Much am I honour'd by the preference Of these two noble Knights; but it was not To chase vain worldly grandeurs, that I left The shepherd moors; not in my hair to bind The bridal garland, that I girt myself With warlike armour.
His face was pale, the cheeks and temples rather hollow, the chin somewhat deep and slightly projecting, the nose irregularly aquiline, his hair inclined to auburn.
With its blue eyes directed towards Heaven, its high-blond hair about the clear brow, and its fast-clasped little hands.
The natives of Australia use this form of divination in actual practice, tying round the stick some of the hair of the person whose fate is to be ascertained.
Her beautiful hair received a new grace from the single white camellia with its drooping bud, which gleamed like a star amid those golden tresses, so purely, so freshly beautiful, that it seemed a fit emblem of her it adorned.
On the shoulders fell the usual curled and bushy hair of the Assyrian mages, and a comb of feathers rose on the top of the head.
There were traces of black color all over the face, and it is not improbable that it was painted to represent a negro: it is, however, possible that the paint of the hairhas been washed down by water over other parts of the sculpture.
The bright complexion and golden hair were hers, but his features were the miniature likeness of his handsome father at her side.
She looked happy, and was as fresh and graceful as a girl--only her cap and collar were both awry, and a lock ofhair straggled.
Dearest, I would not hurt a hair of your beloved head, still less bring upon thee the judgments of Heaven.
But I do rejoice to see you, dear Charles,” replied his sister, seating herself by his side, and gently stroking back the dark hair from his brow.
The ornaments delicately graven on the robes, the tassels and fringes, the bracelets and armlets, the elaborate curls of the hair and beard, were all entire.
Raising her head gently and kissing her through her tears, he smoothed the golden hairback from her forehead.
They sent a crier around the camp or village, saying, "You who wish to have your children's hair cut bring them.
Back drawn up (as of an enraged deer or buffalo), making the hair stand erect.
Hair on the legs (of a buffalo calf takes) a withered appearance.
The women and girls wore good dresses, and painted the partings of their hair and large round spots on their cheeks with red paint.
The parting of the hair is reddened, and a narrow red stripe is made from the temple to the jaw.
This fastening is made of the plaited or braided hair taken from the head of a buffalo.
He also wore a necklace of the hair that grows on the throat of a buffalo.
When any one has white hair it is regarded as a token that he or she has violated the taboo of the gens, as when an Ictasanda or Wajaje man should touch a snake or smell its odor.
They wear buffalo robes with the hair out, if they can get them, and over them they rub white clay.
He noticed that Mr. Bessel's face was white and his expression anxious, and, moreover, that his hair was disordered.
And then I put on a dry bathing-dress, and we sat to bask in the sun, and presently I nodded, resting my head against her knee, and she put her hand upon my hair and stroked it softly and I dozed.
If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilised man.
I met him as I was going up the Sandgate Hill towards Folkestone--I think I was going to get my hair cut, and he came hurrying down to meet me--I suppose he was coming to my house to tell me at once of his success.
Even now I can see her as she sat there, her lovely hairupon her shoulder, can mark again the deepening hollow of her cheek.
Her hair waved back from her forehead on either side; there were curls not too wayward and yet astray, and on her brow was a little tiara, set with a single star.
Your sweet face is as white as marble, and your beautiful golden hair is wet with drifted snow, as is your cloak.
His thick and matted hair fell in tangles over his great shoulders, and his sullen eyes looked from out his forehead with angry stare.
We see the glossy-leaved shalal, the fruit of which the Indians gather to dry for winter use, and clumps of maiden hair and other ferns rooted in old tree trunks and rocky crevices.
Waking in the grey of the morning, we combed quantities of slimy snails out of our hair with our fingers, and again taking our stations in the canoe, were directly sucked into the rapids.
If his hair is grey, is that any reason why the sunshine should be so too?
His hair and eyebrows were whitey brown, his features showed even in their coarseness his frank and dashing temper--and the words came sputtering out of his mouth like ale out of a bottle.
At last the patriarch raised his head high, so that the snow white hair fell back across his blanketed shoulders.
Leaning over him, she smoothed his hair lightly with her two hands, curling about her fingers the obstinate scalp lock that always would stand forth from his crown.
He waited, tense, the hair at the back of his neck stiffening as he thought of blowpipes and of darts poisoned by steeping in the putrid entrails of wild hogs.
For a long minute he remained poised, then beckoned to the Major to follow him and whirling with a flirt of his long black hair he led the way up the acclivity, bearing to the right of the course the Major had taken.
Terry studied the convulsed face and through the thick veil of rage saw the lines of worry that had aged him prematurely: the black hair was streaked with gray and his hands were thickened and stained with toil.
Vivid of white skin, of jet eyes, of a mass of midnight hair that hung loose to her waist, she radiated the fire and spirit of vibrant youth.
Sitting up, he saw Terry sunning himself on the threshold, wrapped in a scant blanket such as Ohto had worn, his hair wet from his bath in the creek which emptied the big spring at the foot of the crag.
Her hair was flaxen, and as fine as satin, and was brushed perfectly smooth and coiled on the back of her shapely head, which was placed admirably on her shoulders.
With her pale, calm face and shining hair outlined against the background of her sad-colored kerchief, she looked like a mourning angel.
She was dressed like a bride in the bridal dress she had sewn so long; her hair was unbound, and lay about her, fine and silken, and she wore the old silver ornaments she had showed me.
La Briere; "is there never a strange feeling in the roots of your hair and on the surface of your skin when she looks at you, --even if she is thinking of something else?
That surtout, and indeed the whole bearing of the young man were essentially Parisian; the ribbon, the gloves, the cane, the very perfume of hishair were not of Havre.
The hair growing in a point above the forehead seemed the continuation of a slight line which thought had already furrowed between the eyebrows, and made the expression of untameability perhaps a shade too strong.
The caterpillar is green, with raised dots, from each of which a brownish hair arises; the line along the middle of the back is dark, and those along the sides are yellowish; the head is ochreous brown.
The male has tufts of blackish hair in a fold on the inner margin of the hind wing, this is noticeable on the upper side, but is best seen from the under side.
Roger stared--radiant in old-fashioned crimson satin and holly, colorful foils indeed for her night-black hair and eyes!
Now, the stately and dignified leaders, such as General Lincoln and General Knox, with their pondered hair and their uniforms of blue and buff, were seen moving about the streets.
There too, were officers of the continental army, who required their hair to be pomatumed and plastered, so as to give them a bold and martial aspect.
If I could show you Emily’s face, with her dark hair smoothed away from her forehead, you would be pleased with her look of simplicity and loving-kindness, but might think that she was somewhat too grave for a child of seven years old.
His hair was cropped close to his head, because Governor Endicott had forbidden any man to wear it below the ears.
Each man would have poured out his life-blood to keep a hair of King George’s head from harm.
The light shone on her fair wavy hair and fair pretty face.
Margot, in yellow tussore, hadhair a shade darker and curlier, and her eyes were hazel.
Dorothy, in white muslin, was fair-skinned and fresh, with shining light brown hair and honest grey eyes.
Evie turned to the glass, and drew four pins out of the roll of hairbehind her head, and it fell in a heavy nut-brown mass, glinting in the yellow gaslight.
