Word: hair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moment to catch a gleam of white upon the waves. Too late, too late! I stooped down to pick something from the slippery floor of the pier, just as it had fluttered down and fallen a moment since. A piece of blue ribbon that she had worn in her hair...
...indeed remarkable. His stature is so large as almost to be gigantic; his form is massive, yet not unwieldy; his face serious, yet not stern; his eyes full of craft, if not of thought; his body black and glossy, except across the breast, where runs the band of white hair, the birth-mark of nobility. His age cannot be more than a score of years...
...girls," said I, "You can't imagine how awfully comical Jack is; it's really painful at times. Why, he'll make you laugh till you shed every gray hair in your head. Talk about Mark Twain, - I tell you after you've been in the room with Jack half an hour you can take any story of Mark Twain's you please, and 't would make you weep to read it, it would seem so serious and sorrowful...
With a halo of golden hair...
Will conjectured that the baldness was owing to the probable fact that the gentleman had at some previous date boarded a month or two at Memorial, where the richness of the diet had shown such marked results, that he grew right up through his hair. It was also suggested that should he paint a face on the back of his head, he would reap a twofold advantage: one in that never, no matter what his position, could he be open to the accusation of turning his back on a friend; the other, in being able to boast in time...