Ringlets

Examples

• She cried fit to break her heart; her ringlets fell over her face, and over the marble mantelpiece where she laid it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His hair, which absolutely grew in full ringlets, was of the very finest silken quality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The hair was to fall over the neck and face in a profusion of careless ringlets, and, inside my vest, an Indian amber-coloured hankerchief. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;--but her face? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There, now I'll take off the papers and you'll see a cloud of little ringlets, said Jo, putting down the tongs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You were but a girl, in white, with large ringlets; you came down singing--do you remember? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was a breezy sunny day; the air freshened the girls' cheeks and gracefully dishevelled their ringlets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A fair girl with rich brown hair hanging free in natural ringlets. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She curled her hair and showed her shoulders at him, as much as to say, did ye ever see such jet ringlets and such a complexion? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was a dark-eyed creature, with crisp ringlets, and never seemed to be getting old. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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