Word: haggards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...taped television program spoke haltingly, his face haggard, a toupee over the shaved spot on the right side of his head. "This," he told his California constituents, "is Clair Engle speaking from Washington, D.C. After consultation with my doctors I am happy to announce that I am a candidate for reelection. The medical men have given me the green light and I am off and running...
...Lifesaver sales shot up in the square this week. Haggard faces and bitten nails abounded. Informed sources reported that Cabot Hall had taken to "feminine pipes...
...favor by more lusty ladies -among them a curvaceous Celt with the improbable name of Louise O'Murphy who "looked like a naughty Rubens." The strain was terrific. "When in private she could remove her mask," Levron writes, "she was, at thirty-seven, already an elderly, exhausted and haggard woman who spat blood...
...even within a single year of production. His first plate was done in 1886, when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela. In it, the learned doctors peer into the royal chamber pot for omens...
...late Sir H. Rider Haggard, in his book, Mr. Meeson's Will, published about 1888, tells of a dying testator, shipwrecked on a South Pacific isle, who was obliged to have his last will and testament tattooed on the back of the neck and shoulders of a young lady companion. When she was rescued and returned to England, the will was probated but could not be filed...