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.

His hair was black, already greying at the temples in the classic beauty-idiom, the only one permitted to a man.

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.

Ainu men have abundant, wavy hair and often have long beards.

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 ).

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

Banshees are frequently described as dressed in white or grey, often having long, pale hair which they brush with a silver comb, a detail scholar Patricia Lysaght attributes to confusion with local mermaid myths.

Dio says that she was " possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women ", that she was tall, had hair described as reddish-brown or tawny hanging below her waist, a harsh voice and a piercing glare, and habitually wore a large golden necklace ( perhaps a torc ), a many-coloured tunic, and a thick cloak fastened by a brooch.

This means that other fast-dividing cells, such as those responsible for hair growth and for replacement of the intestinal epithelium ( lining ), are also often affected.

These are most often temporary effects: hair usually starts to regrow a few weeks after the last treatment, sometimes with a tendency to curl, resulting in " chemo curls.

They are often portrayed as children with Williams syndrome ( which was not recognised as a medical condition but some specialist believe that people were enchanted with their character and appearance that they believed to be magical ), usually with fair hair.

Styles of dress within the subculture range from deathrock, punk and Victorian style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with dark attire, makeup and hair.

Major clinical signs include weight loss ( often accompanied by an increased appetite ), anxiety, intolerance to heat, hair loss, muscle aches, weakness, fatigue, hyperactivity, irritability, hypoglycemia, apathy, polyuria, polydipsia, delirium, tremor, pretibial myxedema, and sweating.

Horizontal sectioning is often done in the evaluation of the hair follicles and pilosebaceous units.

The word " hair " often refers to two distinct structures:

People with longer hair will most often use scissors to cut their hair, whereas shorter hair is maintained using a trimmer.

In the time of Confucius ( 5th century BCE ), the Chinese grew out their hair and often tied it, as a symbol of filial piety.

Given that the coiled texture is the natural state of some African Americans ' hair, or perceived as being more " African ", this simple style is now often seen as a sign of self-acceptance and an affirmation that the beauty norms of the ( eurocentric ) dominant culture are not absolute.

Several variations, including long-haired varieties, grow hair several centimeters long and often require special care.

Hall reflected the appearance of a " mannish " woman in the 1920s: short cropped hair, tailored suits ( often with pants ), and monocle that became widely recognized as a " uniform ".

The Amazonian's hair color is brownish gray and they have thick, wrinkled skin, often with coarse hair, or " whiskers ".

Fibrous proteins are often structural, such as collagen, the major component of connective tissue, or keratin, the protein component of hair and nails.

According to the rules, the five-card hand's value must exceed the two-card hand's, and that is why the two-card hand is often called the hand " in front " or " on top " or " hair ", or the " small " or " minor " or " low " hand.

This is most common in the post-1980s US hardcore punk scene, where members of the subculture often dressed in plain T-shirts and jeans, rather than the more elaborate outfits and spiked, dyed hair of their British counterparts.

He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins.