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Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
Her thick hair was the color and texture of charcoal.
Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
She was nude to the waist and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conceal the knife slashes on her back.
Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
His gray hair was thin, his face beginning to attract a swarm of wrinkles.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.
When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.
There was a glass pane in the front door, and through this he could see into a hallway where a plump woman with red hair was arranging flowers.
Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

hair and black
His legs pumped furiously, his long black hair streamed out behind him.
The straight, black hair flopped in a vigorous nod, the slender nose plunged toward glass teeth and drew safely back.
) Her Nicolas lay curled in the sun like a fawn, black hair falling over his eyes.
He had long black hair and a wispy beard.
He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.
Sometimes she even wore the uniform in solid, unrelieved black, and with her blonde hair cut so closely, wearing this uniform, she strongly resembled a member of the SS..
Like his glossy black hair.
Red thrusting out his tawny beard, Handley glowering under his suddenly rumpled black hair.
They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.
Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.
Tarrou describes him as about thirty-five-years-old, of moderate height, dark-skinned, with close-cropped black hair.
In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.
According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.
Horace, who often wrote in imitation of Alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the Lesbian poet's favourite subjects-Lycus of the black hair and eyes ( C. 1. 32. 11-12: nigris oculis nigroque / crine decorum ).
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.
The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.
Between a pure black and a very light mulatto over a dozen racial categories would be recognized in conformity with the combinations of hair color, hair texture, eye color, and skin color.

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His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.
However, red hair is a known Spencer-family trait, and Hewitt stated to the press in 2002 that Harry had already been born by the time his affair with Diana began, a statement corroborated by Diana's police bodyguard.
Brushes and combs are used to organize and untangle the hair, encouraging all of the strands to lie in the same direction and removing debris such as lint, dandruff, or hairs that have already shed from their follicles but continue to cling to the other hairs.
However, castration will not restore hair growth after hair has already been lost due to male pattern baldness.
In some cases, the aliens already look much like Humans-in the Star Trek franchise, in the 133 years before their participation in first contact in 2063, no fewer than six Vulcans spent significant amounts of time on Earth ( though none were " invaders "-three were shipwreck survivors, the other half time travelers, in the company of at least one Human, from a future where their respective worlds were political allies ), and were able to pass themselves as Human simply by using hair or hats to conceal their pointed ears ; likewise the Bajoran Kira Nerys needed only to put a Band-Aid on her ridged nose, while at the same time the Trill Jadzia Dax was able to pass off her natural spots as tattoos.
Due to more liberal European attitudes to nudity Penthouse was already displaying pubic hair at the time of its U. S. launch.
In cases of alopecia areata hair will tend to pull out more easily along the edge of the patch where the follicles are already being attacked by the body's immune system than away from the patch where they are still healthy.
Since many of the genes are also implicated in other autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes -- and treatments have already been developed that target these genes -- this discovery may soon lead to new treatments for the 5. 3 million Americans suffering from hair loss caused by alopecia areata.
By the 1780s, young men were setting a fashion trend by lightly powdering their natural hair, as women had already done from the 1770s onwards.
She was already very old, with gray hair.
Hogan who said his hair was already beginning to fall out, refused to dye it and simply said " I'll be a blond irish ".
Ure stated in a BBC interview in April 2009, " we are not trying to get our youth back, nor the hair that's fallen off already ".
If you call out a license plate that has already been named, or you yell out the wrong state, you have to punch yourself in the face or pull out a hair from your head as a penalty.
A 2009 study found that light hair colors were already present in southern Siberia during the Bronze Age.
Sarah experimented with home remedies and products already on the market until she finally developed her own shampoo and an ointment that contained sulfur to make her scalp healthier for hair growth.
Her most powerful attack is the ' Aoi Tatsumaki ' ( Blue Whirlwind ), in which her hair turns into a giant blue tornado that invariably rips away all of her clothing ( but generally at this point most of her clothing has already been ripped away anyway ).
When Hando-gwaa learned that Kanahi had already wed she climbed up to Tacchu Mountain and hanged herself with her long, black hair.
However, his appearance caused a violation of continuity, as Cannonball had already made several quick cameos throughout the series already employing his mutant power, and with blond hair, and his X-Force uniform complete with his signature goggles.
In 1971, Maxwell was nearly replaced for Diamonds Are Forever after demanding a pay raise ; her policewoman's cap disguises hair she had already dyed for another role.
It was believed for some years that he walked out after a gig during which Wood threw a glass at a persistent heckler who was making fun of his long hair, though this was probably coincidence ; Wayne had already decided that his days with the group were coming to an end.
Harvey was easily recognizable due to his thick white hair, which had already gone completely gray when he was in his 30s, leading to the early nickname of " Silver ," and in 1971 he grew a handlebar mustache, at a time when no major league field personnel had worn facial hair since the 1940s ; he kept it trimmed to the edges of his mouth, and he wore it for one season.

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