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Bushy

adjective

Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed. Synonyms: shaggy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired. "A shaggy beard"

Resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading.

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... lack a definite aim. Making money—mining—was still to him a game, interesting and healthful, but play. To Overland it was life. Winthrop saw himself as he was. His improved health scoffed at the idea of becoming sentimental about it. He laughed, and Overland, turning, regarded him with bushy, interrogative brows. ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... surprise and terror, and retreated into a corner of the room. Old Simon, looking at him maliciously from under his bushy brows, gradually extended his thin lips into ...

— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene

... together with the possession of grand-parents, causes them to regard themselves as endowed with the combined wisdom of the law and the prophets. I am quite sure that he also detected the big fund of common sense which lurks in the keen grey eyes under Daddy's bushy eye-brows. ...

— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick

... Confederates advanced from behind their works at Richmond, and attacked Wilson and Gregg. Wilson's troops were driven back in some confusion at first; but Gregg, in anticipation of attack, had hidden a heavy line of dismounted men in a bushy ravine on his front, and when the enemy marched upon it, with much display and under the eye of the President of the Confederacy, this concealed line opened a destructive fire with repeating carbines; and at the same time the batteries ...

— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan

... it," sputtered Johnston, shaking his bushy head like a swimming dog. "Look, the shore is not very far." Thorndyke was saving his wind, and said nothing, but accommodated his stroke to that of his companion, and thus they breasted the gently-rolling ...

— The Land of the Changing Sun • William N. Harben

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