"Hair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Hungarian sheep dog, i. 24. PAGET, inheritance of cancer, ii. 7; hereditary elongation of hairs in the eyebrow, ii. 8; period of inheritance of cancer, ii. 79-80; on Hydra, ii. 293; on the healing of wounds, ii. 294; on the reparation of bones, ibid.; growth of hair near inflamed surfaces or fractures, ii. 295; on false membranes, ibid.; compensatory development of the kidney, ii. 300; bronzed skin in disease of supra-renal capsules, ii. 331; unity of growth and gemmation, ii. 359; independence of the elements of the body, ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... quantity of yellow berries are annually shipped from Constantinople; 115 tons were imported into Liverpool last year. The average annual imports into the United Kingdom are about 450 tons. They come from the Levant in hair bales weighing three and a quarter cwt., or in tierces of four to five cwt., and are used by calico printers for dyeing a yellow color. They are ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... fifteen or eighteen years ago, seeing at Noisy-le-Sec a cavalier, accompanied by a lady in black silk, with flame-colored ribbons in her hair?" ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Lord Elliot has red hair, squints with both eyes, and is so long and meagre that he looks more like an exclamation-point than a man. When he appears before me in his yellow-gray riding costume, I am always reminded of the great ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... a feeling of drowsiness came over the feaster, and this time Bart did not yield to it, for he felt that he must place many more miles behind him before it grew dark; so, rolling up the horse-hair lariat by which Black Boy had been tethered, once again he tightened the girths, and was just giving his final look round before mounting, congratulating himself with the thought that he had enough good roasted venison to last him ...
— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn
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