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"Shock-headed" Quotes from Famous Books

... was occupied by two ladies, one rather old, to whom a couple of half-grown children in the pony-cart kissed their hands and shouted. They were not permitted to follow the phaeton, however, as they seemed to have wished. Its shock-headed pony, driven by an aged negro who scolded both children with a worn and practised garrulity, was turned in another direction. One of the children, a little dark-faced girl of eight or nine, called ...

— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

... place for studying the natural manners of the untravelled Frenchman, who there sits patiently at the table, for many minutes before dinner is served, with his napkin tucked in round his neck, and his countenance composed into a look of much resignation. The waiters are for the most part shock-headed boys, in angular-tail coats well up in the back of the neck, who frankly confess, when any order out of the common run of orders is given, that a German patois from the left bank of the Rhine is their only extensive language. ...

— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne

... away my horse, his pretty wife brought us into the sanded parlour, where, having despatched a shock-headed boy with my ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... Only one person called, "Au 'voir, M'sieu' Jean Jacques!" and no one followed him—a curious, assertive, feebly-brisk, shock-headed figure in the brown velveteen jacket, which he had bought in ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

Words linked to "Shock-headed" : hairy, hirsute, haired