tow-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-coloured, sun-burned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
From Sixes and Sevens by Henry, O.
"Don't you like songs?" asked Margaret, stroking the tow-coloured hair gently.
From Margaret Montfort by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
"Am I a Marat?" shouted the youth with the tow-coloured hair addressing the assembly indiscriminately.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
He was a florid man of thirty, with tow-coloured hair and blue eyes.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
She had two braids of lank, thick, tow-coloured hair and very odd eyes—"white eyes," the manse children thought, as she stared at them half defiantly, half piteously.
From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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