Example Sentences

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A tangled black beard hung wisplike from the dirty chuddah that draped his head, and above it two eyes, fevered and furtive, peered strangely forth.

From The Lamp in the Desert by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

A thin, wisplike man, timid, in black, but very gentlemanly, made me heartily welcome.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry