These hairs are so long and numerous that they completely fill the pod or seed vessel; they are very delicate, and of the same size throughout, and but seldom jointed, they are each separate from the other.
Cotton consists of the fine long hairs which grow from the seeds of several varieties of Gossypium, a plant belonging to the natural order of Malvaceæ.
The under fur is very fine and soft, and is mixed with longer and coarser hairs called "guard hairs".
If the den is inhabited by skunks one will usually find black and white hairs clinging to the mouth of the den, also will be likely to find a pile of droppings somewhere near, and to one side of the entrance.
From the side of this entrance hairs are floating and waving in the water, and within the transparent bladder are other waving tufts of hairs.
If it attempts to descend into the urn it slips on the glazed zone and falls into the water; and if it attempts to escape by crawling up the side of the urn, the thick-set, downward-pointing hairs prevent.
Shorter gland-bearing hairs are scattered over the inner surface of the blade.
And then, when, not having so resolved, our thin vein of youthful knowledge and experience has been worked to the rock; when grey hairs are here and there upon us, how slow we are to stoop to that!
But the characteristic egg sponge laid by the animal contains nothing but analhairs in spite of the fact that the abdomen is filled with ripe eggs.
The tentacles are first put together like the hairs of a camel's-hair brush (Fig.
Scraps of these cloths and hairs of the animals were given, rather perhaps sold, to all who asked for them as preservatives against sickness and the evil eye.
The brain, heart, eyes and hairs of the body are then removed and mixed, according to a secret formula, with special incantations.
The seed hairs of the cotton plant are separated from the seeds by the process of ginning, and they then pass into commerce as raw cotton.
Not one of all the hairs of her golden head was singed by the lightning that shivered the tree under which the child had run for shelter from the flashing sky.
His grey hairs were not honoured, but it would not be too much to say that they were respected.
Those who were then little children have grown up to be men and women, and have drifted away upon the currents of life, themselves fathers and mothers, with grey hairs gathering upon their heads.
The Barbets owe their name to a number of straight hairs which they have upon their beak.
The structure of these horns is fibrous, as if they were composed of a mass of hairs glued together.
I'll pluck my silverhairs from out my head, And wash away the wrinkles of my face; Closely immured I'll live as I were dead, Before she suffer but the least disgrace.
XLVII I need not tell thee of the lily white, Nor of the roseate red which doth thee grace, Nor of thy golden hairs like Phoebus bright, Nor of the beauty of thy fairest face.
Quoth she 'Here's but two and fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them is white.
The Minks were a very dark brown, and scattered through their close, soft fur were long, shining hairs of an even darker shade, which made their coats very beautiful indeed.
I must hurry," said she, and she breathed very fast with the white breathing hairs that grew on both sides of her body.
When Mrs. Spider came into her house, she always had some air caught in the hairs which covered her body, even when she did not bring a bubble of it in her hindlegs.
He cannot sleep because he is think about your eyes which are like the stars, and your hairs which are the most beautiful of all the girls in this town.
They were very sure, however, that no other animal had such a wonderful tail as she, with each of its long, reddish hairs tipped with black and the beautiful brush of pure white at the end.
When the Fireflies dropped in, they had brushed easily past these hairs and thought it rather pleasant.
There were very few hairs on his long, flat, scaly tail, and most of these were in two fringes, one down the middle of the upper side, and the other down the middle of the lower side.
Now that they were sputtering and choking inside, and wanted to get out, these same hairs stuck into their eyes and pushed against their legs and made them exceedingly uncomfortable.
The lift was going down; and wrapped to the ears in the high cloak, with every one of her auburn hairs in its place, she waited motionless for it to stop at her floor.
And the little machine began severely tweaking the hairs on the nape of his neck.
Except for a line or two, and three or four grey hairs in his little dark moustache, had he aged any more than Irene?
He heaved another sigh, screwed his head into the pillow and lay examining the battle of chariots and swords and spears which always went on outside blankets, where the little hairsstood up against the light.
Mr. Lavender saw that he had a mouth which seemed to have a bitt in it; several hairs on a finely rounded head; and an air of efficient and truculent bonhomie tanned and wrinkled by the weather.
He was evidently waiting with anxiety for her answer, and the little silver hairs that straggled on his lean throat beneath his beard were clearly visible.
There was Danson died the other day, and left his money to a hospital" The hairs of Swithin's white moustache bristled.
Never till that moment had he realised how much the dread of bringing James' grey hairs down with sorrow to the grave had counted with him; how intimately it was bound up with his own shrinking from scandal.
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
The longhairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
There they brought four black oxen, and the priestess poured wine upon their heads and cut hairs from between the horns.
Bedad, whathairs he has isn't white at all, but red as carrots!
Me grandfather says I'm bringin' his white hairs with sorrow to the grave.
But," she entreated, "if life is demanded, spare at least the white hairs of my loved father.
I should not enjoy another hour of pleasure, and my grey hairs would be brought with sorrow to the grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
