"Bald-headed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... passed the time of the day with me—one or two were bald-headed retired colonels of sixty, dressed in khaki, with belts like equators on a terrestrial globe and with a captain's three stars on their sleeves. Gallant old boys, full of gout and softness, they had sunk their ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... permanent place in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" (of which she had heard the other day), and invited him to partake of refreshments, for they had now at last reached the doors of the dining-room. He declined, as she had done, but accepted a glass of champagne from a bald-headed Greek who was pulling corks at a small table near by. On the point of pledging his lady's health, he was invaded again, this time by resolute Mr. Robert Tellford, who held the opinion that Carlisle looked an angel this evening, and was long since addicted ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... her first child the second Mrs. Elkman died. The rosy face became a white angelic mask, the dainty figure lay in statuesque severity, and a screaming, bald-headed atom of humanity was the compensation for this silence. Henry Elkman was overwhelmed by grief ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... we were bald-headed liars right from Storytown! And yet,—did it really happen, or have I been dreaming ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
... a bald-headed, red-whiskered gentleman, whom I knew to be Mr. Manasseh. "Mr. Salathiel, this is too bad! Leave me with this gentleman, S." And the ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
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