A dozen men were in the lounge up-stairs, old friends, who started up with exclamations of surprise at seeing the familiar tousled head with the gray lock appearing above the stairs.
In one corner was a four-poster bed with the faded peacock-blue dressing-gown pendent below a tousled nightcap of gray silk.
The gentleman calmly lowered his telescope, passed it to the bearded man, turned mildly toward the tousled apparition and looked at him from top to toe while the sportive wind gleefully defined Geltman's generous figure.
He was lanky, and he had a very long face under his tousled hair.
But Abraham Lincoln, the uncouth man in the linen duster with the tousled hair, knew it.
There was a dark cabin ahead, indistinct in the starlight, and there I knocked until a gruff voice answered me and a tousled man came to the door.
His scraggy hair tousled on his head, a growth of black, wiry beard covering his face, coatless and collarless, he was a picture of coarse self-indulgence.
His hair, usually so perfectly combed, was tousled and unkempt and his eyes were a trifle bloodshot.
Miss Sneers was settin on that silken bench, dressed out in a ruffled white frock, and with her hair twisted back in a hurry, and kinder tousled up with a gold chain in it, as if she hadn't touched it since the night afore.
Good people, will ye see a lady tousled by knavish street brawlers!
Hommy-beg scratched histousled head and made no answer at first, and the Bishop repeated the question.
I told him to make some coffee and it will be here in a minute," Jack announced thrusting a wet and tousled head into the cabin.
Thereupon a tousledhead emerged from a blanket on the floor with this remark: "Blimey, they mean to find out who pinched those blinking chickens.
I reply, as I look up and see a tousled head sticking through a hole in the roof.
His tousled head was bare; he had very long arms and great powerful hands protruded at the end of long sinewy wrists from inadequate sleeves.
A glance in a mirror showed him his sleek hair tousled into an upstanding wig.
Gregory drew his fingers through his tousled hair and shook his head.
Dickie Lang passed a slim brown hand slowly over her forehead and replaced a tousled lock of red-brown hair.
A faded blue calico dress over which she wore a small shawl, and on her head a bedraggled hat with a few tousled roses stuck on one side, made up a costume which only accentuated her drawn face and sorrowful eyes.
He was in slippers and shirtsleeves; he had a large volume which in his hands appeared little less than huge; his hair was as badly tousled as Terry's own; his eyes were frankly bewildered.
There came the impulse to put both arms about this big shirt-sleeved, tousled Packard man and squeeze him hard--and at the end of it pinch him harder.
Then, with an obvious effort, he recovered a show of equanimity; he declared that it was only because he was so tousled in contrast with her fresh finery that she thought he looked supernaturally horrible!
He laughed as he tossed the tousled yellow hair from his face, and looked over his shoulder to speak to the infant.
Her blue eyes danced with excitement as she tossed back her tousled curls.
Peering over the edge of the bunk with big, eager, blue eyes, was a round little face framed in a tousled mop of yellow hair.
Then, seeing that the man was struggling vainly for a semblance of cheeriness, he slid beside him on the bench and tousled his hair with one big hand.
The high white forehead and the tousled brown hair, leonine in its masculinity--seemed foreign as another man's.
The huge tousled head at the desk turned from her to the woman who entered.
My Tim was a sturdy little fellow whose booted legs scarce touched the floor, whose tousled black head hardly showed above the desk-top.
He had been taking a cat nap on his ancient sofa; his long white back hair was tousled up comically behind his bald pink brow.
The tousled songster seized the photograph in righteous anger.
Now he of the tousledhair stole forward across the sill.
He sobbed, and she held him close, brushing at the tousled head.
It was the tousled chorister, and he plowed his way forward through the gathering choir before the hearth.
As Hattie disappeared into the vestibule, that door from the passage, upon which she had kept a watch, was opened, slowly and cautiously, and the tousled head of a boy was thrust in.
His eyes were extraordinarily bright and his wiry coat was a grizzled black, always tousled and generally dirty.
As for Jack, he hugged the emaciated little Remus close to his breast, and, with big tears of happiness in his eyes, kissed the tousled little head.
A little saint in bud, he swore; a wholesome, domestic little household goddess, meek and very pure, who would carry home her beauties unaware and oil the tousled heads of half a dozen brothers and sisters.
Tousled heads from above looked down curiously on heads elaborately frizzed, on scarlet caps, on plumes, on garlands, on jewelled necks.
Over the child's tousled head she smiled nervously at her staring guests.
Now she looked so absurdly small in the mirror, her tousled hair so childish, no matter how much she tried to tuck it out of sight under the little dark blue toque, why would anyone, especially a manager of a Mill, listen to her?
All out, Mister Micky," rejoined the youngster, thrusting his tousled head out of the doorway to inspect the visitor.
A swift vision of yellow tousled hair, gleaming blue eyes and grim square jaw, flashed before Micky's bewildered sight.
Grandpa, mildly startled by the unprecedented hug, and the feel of that tousled head against his, stared for a moment like a surprised infant.
Every one stared at the strange little figure in the big, ragged clothes with a sumptuous bouquet of pink rosebuds held so high against his breast, under his folded arms, that only his tousled hair and his gray eyes showed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tousled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: disheveled; matted; rumpled; shaggy; snarled; uncombed; unkempt
