Shaggy

Examples

• A footman opened the door, and a small, stout man in a shaggy astrakhan overcoat descended. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He left it to Jenny's husband to say what he chose, and after a dogged silence the latter turned his shaggy head towards me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He wore no hat, his hair was black and shaggy and his handclasp was strong and friendly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The hand was smoothing his shaggy moustache. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Just to comb out this shaggy black mane. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She went on, and as the path was an infinitely small parting in the shaggy locks of the heath, the reddleman followed exactly in her trail. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A shaggy little damaged man, withal, not unlike an old dog of some mongrel breed, who has been considerably knocked about. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had a quantity of hair and moustache--jet black, except at the shaggy ends, where it had a tinge of red--and a high hook nose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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