Example Sentences

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"We have our little trials—" he said, and smoothed them rather fretfully, and as speedily as might be, from his pink, bald brow and laid them with the well-ordered weft of ungrayed hair atop.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

As his hair had been red, the wig did not accord with his face, and the hair ungrayed was doubly discordant with a countenance shrivelled by age.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward

As his hair had been red, the wig did not accord with his face, and the hair ungrayed was doubly discordant with a countenance shriveled by age.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

The counselor sat down, wiped his glasses with his handkerchief, smoothed his very sparse, but ungrayed black hair, hastily crossed his legs, and blinked a few times with neuralgic eyes.

From The Comedienne by Obecny, Edmund