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  • If you want to know more particularly how he looked, call to your remembrance some tawny-whiskered, brown-locked, clear-complexioned young Englishman whom you have met with in a foreign town, and been proud of as a fellow - countryman — well-washed, high-bred, white-handed, yet looking as if he could deliver well from

    Adam Bede 2004

  • Palais-Égalité named Flora, a brown-locked giantess, had nevertheless found five minutes to congratulate his comrade and tell him that such an appointment was a great compliment to the fine arts.

    Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Arachne — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Arachne — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Arachne — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

    Arachne — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • When I visited it last spring, the air about it was fragrant with the bloom of sweet-brier and blackberry and the balsamic aroma of the sweet-fern; birds were singing in the birch-trees by the wall; and two little, brown-locked, merry-faced girls were making wreaths of the dandelions and grasses which grew upon the old man's grave.

    My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • The Deacon's daughters -- the tall, blue-eyed, brown-locked girls you noticed in meeting the other day -- set the example among the young people of treating her as their equal and companion.

    My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • When I visited it last spring, the air about it was fragrant with the bloom of sweet-brier and blackberry and the balsamic aroma of the sweet-fern; birds were singing in the birch-trees by the wall; and two little, brown-locked, merry-faced girls were making wreaths of the dandelions and grasses which grew upon the old man's grave.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

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