tow-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Their tousled, tow-coloured little heads peep round the doorway.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-coloured hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson
"Thank you for the compliment, Elise, though a little belated; all right, then, I'll leave my tow-coloured tresses their natural shade, and decorate them with strings of pearls and light blue ostrich tips."
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
His ragged, tow-coloured 231 locks he could hide under wisps of horsehair, the paint itself redeemed his freckled skin, but there was no remedy for the white eyelashes and the pale, piggy, blue eyes.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
Straighty stood in the centre of the kitchen, sucking three fingers and looking shyly at me from beneath her tousled tow-coloured hair.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
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