Example Sentences

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He would have liked to see Miss Norman shed her pretty brunetteness and reappear as an old apple-woman, who besought him to buy of her wares.

From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Jenkins, Herbert George

Although a short stature more or less coincides with brunetteness in England and Wales, and the observations in Ireland are too few to be relied on, no such parallelism can be traced in Scotland.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court