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Lady's hair   Listen
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Lady's hair  n.  (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (Briza media); a variety of quaking grass.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lady's hair" Quotes from Famous Books



... lady's hair had been black. But now, as suddenly as darkness vanishes in a tropic dawn, it was become light. No gradual approach of the grey, for the black had been equally artificial. The wig is the region without twilight. Only in the swart moustache had the grey crept on, so ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the Men's wits against the Lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, ...
— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope

... likewise, that the lady's hair is still growing; for, every time they see her, it is longer than before; and that now such is its length and the headlong speed of the horse, that it floats and streams out behind, like one of those curved clouds, like a comet's tail, far up in the sky; only the cloud is white, and ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various

... lord had stolen a lock of a beautiful young lady's hair, and she was so angry about it that there was a coolness between the two families. A friend then came to Pope to ask him if he could not do something to appease the angry lady. So Pope took up his ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... then. I'll drive her," said the boy, grimly, "good and fast." They came again to the open, but the road continued hard and broad, with only long curves around the base of a hill now and then. The wind blew the old lady's hair into disarray, her dress was gray with dust, her eyes smarted terribly; she gave from time to time a little gasp—or was it a laugh?—and clutched at Archie's arm, which held so rigid and strong to the tiller wheel. "This'll ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... Mr. F. G. Sanborn has reared the fly, here figured, from the worm. The larva also lives in rotten wood; it is too scarce ever to prove very destructive in houses. Either this or a similar fly was once found, we are told by a scientific friend, in great numbers in a "rat" used in dressing a young lady's hair; the worms were living ...
— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard



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