tow-like

• “A big, greenish, yellowish worm was crawling over his head, his tow-like hair whiter by contrast; upon his forehead great drops of perspiration.”

  Watch Yourself Go By

• “And never an old woman on Naples quay would ask him for an alms but would get it, he thinking all the time of the old woman with the tow-like hair who abode in his house, his wife's mother.”

  The Wind Bloweth

• “He was part bald, with a few lank locks of tow-like hair, and a steep, narrow forehead.”

  The Last Galley Impressions and Tales

• “The outer covering of each drupe is hard, the inner part tow-like; seed enveloped in a sort of fleshy white meat.”

  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines

• “Pod full of short hairs, with more than 6 surrounded with a tow-like substance, reniform, with black spots.”

  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines

• “The fruit is about the size and shape of a hen's egg, the husk tow-like or filamentose, the kernel pinkish or light red.”

  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines

• “Fernande represented the handsome blonde; she was very tall, rather fat, and lazy; a country girl, who could not get rid of her freckles, and whose short, light, almost colorless, tow-like hair, like combed-out hemp, barely covered her head.”

  Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

• “Externally it was as usual chiefly composed of the withered stems of the little asteraceous plant, interwoven with a few jhow-shoots (_Tamarix dioica_) and a little tow-like fibre of the putsan (_Hibiscus cannabinus_), while”

  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

• “The egg-cavity is, however, very regularly shaped, and neatly lined with very fine grass-stems and a little fine tow-like vegetable fibre.”

  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

• “The nest is a small, rather shallow cup, at most 3½ inches in diameter and 1½ in depth; is composed externally entirely of soft tow-like vegetable fibre, which appears to be worked over a light framework of fine roots and slender tamarisk-stems, amongst which, some little pieces of lichen are intermingled.”

  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

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