Hairs

Examples

• One night last summer he glared at me like Famine and Sword, and it made me feel so low that I didn't comb out my few hairs for two days. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was a brave man, but he had felt the short hairs bristle upon the nape of his neck when that uncanny cry rose upon the air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The hogs are first run through a great machine which takes all but a few stray hairs from them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was frost on the hairs of their muzzles and their breathing made plumes of frost in the air. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I've got more pounds to my name than you've hairs on your head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Why should thy death bring down my grey hairs to the grave, till, in the bitterness of my heart, I curse God and die! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If he was left alive till I came, I'd grind his skull under the iron heel of my boot into as many grains as there are hairs upon his head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The nose is provided with small hairs and a moist inner membrane which serve as filters in removing solid particles from the air, and in thus purifying it before its entrance into the lungs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They give themselves the hairs and hupstarts of ladies, and their wages is no better than you nor me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hairs, like feathers, are long and elaborately specialized scales. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They long made use of cordage twisted from cotton and other fibers, or formed from the inner bark of various trees and the roots of others, and from the hairs, skins and sinews of animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the hairs on the heads of all human beings, which are supposed to be numberless, are only a small fraction of a duodecillion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But even that might be overcome by time and patience, so as to let a few grey hairs show themselves in the hussy's head. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mrs. Captain Magenis and me has made up, though her treatment of me would bring me gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He blew my hairs aside to take a better view of my face. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• You with your gray hairs and all. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Porter; but, believe me, sir, I am tottering on the verge of forgetfulness as to your exalted position in the world of science, and your gray hairs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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