Example Sentences

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Diderot has such an engaging aura in his writing that an idealized Fragonard portrait of a reader at work—open collar, wigless, bright-eyed and wry—was, until 2012, falsely identified as Diderot.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

He was wigless now but still in his stage makeup.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

In a moment the cherry-wood of the opening framed a face which caused me to snatch the coonskin cap from my wigless yellow curls.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

Even as it was, I had a wait of several minutes in the drawing-room before the Colonel entered, wigless, unshaven, and loosely attired in nightgown and slippers.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

On the terrace among the leaden gods danced a little man, wigless, in an orange-coloured dressing-gown and a fury of choler.

From The Mayor of Troy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir