tow-coloured
Britishadjective
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No; if you want a Tempest pure and simple, look at the man with tow-coloured hair in the further doorway, making running with the little soda-water heiress.
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When he took off his hat in order to mop the perspiration off his forehead, he showed tow-coloured, closely cropped hair, and projecting light blue eyes without eyebrows.
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"Am I a Marat?" shouted the youth with the tow-coloured hair addressing the assembly indiscriminately.
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Miss Torkington brought her tow-coloured hair and pince-nez, and a manner that seemed to shout virtue and chastity.
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There was something of a flabby sort in Mullally's nature that made Henry instinctively angry with him: his vague features, his weak, wandering eyes, peering from behind large glasses, his tow-coloured hair that seemed to have "washed-out," and above all, his squeaky voice that piped on one jerky note....
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