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  • Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow,

    Songs of Innocence 2008

  • Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow

    Holy Thursday / Semana Santa 2008

  • Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow,

    Songs of Innocence 2008

  • Grey-headed though he was, he still retained both in art and in real life a taste for the slapstick.

    Piccadilly Jim 1928

  • Grey-headed and red-breasted flycatchers, minivets, bush-chats, rose-finches and swallows pour into the plains from the Himalayas, while from beyond those mountains come redstarts, wagtails, starlings, buntings, blue-throats, quail and snipe.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Grey-headed rocks rose everywhere close about the ship; overhead the seagulls cried and circled; no vegetation was visible on either shore, no houses, no abode of man -- nothing but the lighthouses, then miles of deserted rock dressed in those splendors of the sun's good-night.

    The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • Grey-headed men, wonderfully pathetic in their dissipation, stared at her through clouds.

    Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885

  • I have never met with the nest of the Grey-headed Myna myself, but am indebted to Mr. Gammie for its eggs and nest.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • Cryptolopha xanthoschista (Hodgs.) _Holgson's Grey-headed

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

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