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Mulder was on the sink, watching intently as John Brown batted around what my bleary eyes assumed was a bottlecap or tuft of hair.
The men wear a horned headdress with a tall tuft of feathers and a fringe of cowry shells dangling over their faces.
Other than the odd tuft of sea grass, we were surrounded by seemingly endless sand.
Penstemons are sometimes commonly called beardtongues because the sterile stamen has a tuft of small hairs.
He was incredibly short, fat and stocky, with a tuft of balding, wiry hair sticking straight up as if he'd just clambered out of bed.
There was the dull, clinking sound of a hobble chain as a feeding horse moved a few steps to another fresh tuft of grass.
A 19-year-old, healthy man visited a plastic surgeon because of a cutaneous nodule on the distal tuft of his left index finger.
Pausing, he scratched a tuft of vibrant red hair poking from beneath his cap.
All that remains is to fasten the bow to a tuft of hair, using the ends of the center splice to tie the knot.
Lions are large cats with short, tawny coats, white underparts, and long tails with a black tuft at the end.
One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks.
The paper is positioned just where his face ought to be, and all I see of him are two ears and a tuft of hair.
The tail of the kangaroo mouse is thickest in the middle, tapered at both ends, black tip, and no tuft.
Its ciliated tuft, which may have sensory abilities, is directed forward in locomotion.
While her classmates floundered through Ted Hughes and RS Thomas like a confused flock of sheep, Agbabi leapt from tuft to intellectual tuft, exploring the landscape.
He grasps a forelock between his thumb, his index finger, and the one beside it and he twirls it around and around, until it stands up in a little tuft.
And Marion Cotillard had a tuft on her forehead seemingly styled by a weed whacker.
On gripper Axminster looms each tuft is inserted by its individual beaklike gripper, after being cut away from the carrier.
Lions have a hairy tuft at the end of their tails which can be used to chase off flies.
To make it chic, transparencies of organza with feathers, emboridered tuft and exquisite embroidery brooches with precious stones.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On his head is a little round cap, with a tuft made out of a hare's or rabbit's scut.
A few biscuits, made savory by soaking them in seawater, a tuft of samphire gathered from the beach, and an apple for the dessert.
The nest of the grebe is usually placed in a tuft of rushes, on the edge of the water.
A peacock butterfly with folded colours sipped of the sunshine on a tuft nearly at evens with his cheek.
A tuft of groundsel had rooted itself close beside the traction rails a few paces from the waterside.
Molinia also has a tuft of hairs instead of a ligule, and a split sheath, and its habit is different.
The rest of the spectators kept close to the covert of grass tuft and lily pad.
This may be done whether they have been varnished or not, by means of a tuft of cotton wool dipped in wood spirit.
Upon the head was a feather tuft, a yellowhammer-feather forehead-band, two trembler plumes and some down.
Upon the head each man wore a down head-net, a feather tuft, and a pair of trembler plumes.
Like the wagtail, which originally had no tail, the hoopoe had originally no tuft on its head.
The cuckoo waited for a while for the hoopoe to return to him the tuft which he had lent her.
A conspicuous tuft of fine silky hairs, longer than the palea at the base and on the rachilla.
She did so and found p. 67herself sitting on a tuft of rushes, and not in a palace.
The pappus consists of a tuft of simple hairs, most of which are longer than the achene.
I wiped it with a tuft of bracken, and I laughed with something of a bitterness.
On the opposite bank are two tapering columns without their capitals, placed in a tuft of carob trees.
Each of the ungues has a little tuft of strong hairs issuing from the extremity of the terminal joint of the tarsi.
An almost exactly similar tuft of spine-like outgrowths exists upon the lower end of the ankle of galago garnetti.
His open, manly and characterful face bore at the chin a thick tuft of brown beard, leaving his cheeks and lips clean shaven.
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