cowlick

• “Researchers say the creature’s single antler, which pokes up like a cowlick from the middle of its head, may be the result of a genetic anomaly — although its twin has two horns, the AP reports.”

  Associated Press: Unicorn Found in Italy « Skid Roche

• “Trousers may be brought to order in a few minutes, but to subdue a cowlick is a matter of years.”

  Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

• “Babbing caught him by the "cowlick" that adorned his ingenuous young forehead.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “I can't really remember what was first, just that I started noticing odd indentations in things, like in a fresh jar of peanut butter, leaving a little cowlick of Jif hanging over the screw top.”

  Fictionaut: Put it Where it Doesn't Belong

• “He had a buzz cut with a cowlick in the center of his forehead and a quirky smile.”

  Simon & Schuster: History of a Suicide

• “The spike of hair that by now had probably developed into a cowlick.”

  Simon & Schuster: I’ll Walk Alone

• “A kid done up as Tintin, his trench coat torn and covered in blood, but his cowlick still perfect.”

  Simon & Schuster: Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?

• “His white-blond hair was shaved on the sides, a cowlick at the back of his head.”

  Simon & Schuster: So Much Pretty

• “Then I just want to tamp down its cowlick and put it in orthopedic sneakers and set it to dancing.”

  A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

• “I noticed years ago that my dad and my son have the same cowlick but I finally managed to capture it on camera at my son's recent basketball game:”

  Archive 2009-02-01

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