"Shock-headed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... purest philanthropy actuated these counsels, I thanked my shock-headed friend, and asked carelessly to whom the ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... traditional fire with three stakes set in the ground and tied at the top, with the pot swinging therefrom—had been lighted outside the caravans, and gipsy women were making the evening soup. Bright-eyed, shock-headed, uncombed, unwashed, but exceedingly happy gipsy children were tumbling over one another on the wet turf, showing so much of their brown skin between their rags that they would have been more comfortable and quite as decent had they been naked. A hideous old man, merely ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... nine o'clock they began to come, by ones, twos, and threes; some attended by their parents and some alone. Rough-looking customers they were, to be sure; shock-headed, sun-burned, and freckle-faced girls and boys of the humblest class of "poor whites," as they were called ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... his vow, had his hair combed and cut. It had grown so rough and tangled during these ten years that his people had named him Harald Sufa, which meant "Shock-headed Harald." Now, however, after his long, yellow hair was combed and clipped, he was named Harald Fairhair, and by this name he was ever after known. Nor did the King forget Gyda, for whose sake he had made his vow. He sent for her, and she, as she ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various
... horse-load, though it should turn out that the weight is too great for a weakly animal, and the Transport agent distributes it among two or even three horses, you only pay for one; and though our cortege on leaving Kisagoi consisted of four small, shock-headed mares who could hardly see through their bushy forelocks, with three active foals, and one woman and three girls to lead them, I only paid for two horses at 7 sen ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird
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