Tresses
['trɛsɪz]
Examples
- His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The tresses are soft as shadow, the shoulders they fall on wear a goddess grace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wasn't it one of these beau--tiful tresses? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No fierce dry blast has dealt rudely with the surface of her frame; no burning sun has crisped or withered her tresses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shake your black tresses, maidens of Valhalla! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One single white hair streaked her nut-brown tresses; she plucked it out with a shudder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But a quarter of an hour afterwards he was again in the dining-room, looking at the head with dishevelled tresses, and eyes turbid with despair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She curled her lip and tossed her tresses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I laid the two tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her nerves extended into those tresses, and her temper could always be softened by stroking them down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She threw the veil of tresses behind her ear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By a curious chance you came upon her tresses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Juan