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If you conceit yourself on possessing healthy and clean looking hair, caring for your tresses is of crest precedence.— Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
A simpleton might have constructed a tragedy out of this trivial circumstance,--how she had cast herself from the window into the waters beneath it,--how she had been thrust out after a struggle, of which this shred from her tresses was the dreadful witness,--and so on.— Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Cassiopoeia of the beautiful tresses, and they called me Andromeda, as long as life was mine.— Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Gentle fingers toyed with the tawny tresses, and a soft voice lulled with its consoling promises of hope.— Graustark
But Charmian only combed her tresses, and went on singing to herself.— The Broad Highway

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