side-hair

Thank goodness he finally accepted his baldness and now combs his side-hair straight back, giving him a sleek aerodynamic look.

Tom Alderman: Rudy, the Tough Guy Pitch 2008

Pao-yü then cut, with a pair of bamboo scissors, a stalk, with two autumn orchids, which had blossomed in a flower pot, and he pinned it in her side-hair.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Daniel's dressing-room having been given up to the gentlemen I invited him to make his toilet in mine, and, indeed, wanting him to create a favorable impression, became his valet _pro tem. _, tying his cravat, and teasing the divinity-student look out of his side-hair.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

Pao-yü then cut, with a pair of bamboo scissors, a stalk, with two autumn orchids, which had blossomed in a flower pot, and he pinned it in her side-hair.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb's boy, when, passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants,

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

But your side-hair and ear doesn't make the perfect 'M G' shape!

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

a scoop; and to gouge is to poke out the eye: this is done by thrusting the fingers into the side-hair thus acting as a base and by prising out the ball with the thumbnail which is purposely grown long.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Why, my dear fellow, you're at least a dozen years my junior, and look at me! "and John glanced at himself in the glass with a feeble pride, noting the gray sparseness of his side-hair, and its plaintive dearth on top.

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883