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Examples
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Highland costume, his legs bare, and was very much befrizzled and pomaded.
Virgin Soil 2003
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There was not a soul to be seen, so that it seemed strange to him when suddenly, almost at his elbow, he heard a deferentially familiar, but rather pleasant, voice, with a suave intonation, such as is affected by our over-refined tradespeople or befrizzled young shop assistants.
The Possessed 2003
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Susan, peeping through a hole in the drop, saw the curtain go up, drew a long breath of terror as the audience was revealed beyond the row of footlights, beyond the big, befrizzled blond head of Violet and the drink-seared face of Pat.
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A befrizzled Maria, whose scant hair stood out in startling Marcel waves, confronted him at luncheon-time.
Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907
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Susan, peeping through a hole in the drop, saw the curtain go up, drew a long breath of terror as the audience was revealed beyond the row of footlights, beyond the big, befrizzled blond head of Violet and the drink-seared face of Pat.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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"Will you assist me with this dance?" and in a few minutes the same many-colored woollen gowns, and much befrizzled heads, which had diversified the last sets, were lending lustre to the present dance.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884
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"Oh!" and she tossed her befrizzled head in lofty disdain, "that is perfectly horrid, I cannot see how human beings endure such things; oh! dear, what a poor hand I should be at living under such circumstances."
The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871
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He did not like Kolia's befrizzled and pomaded head, and when his eye fell on Kollomietzev, thought, "What a sleek individual."
Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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He was dressed in a Highland costume, his legs bare, and was very much befrizzled and pomaded.
Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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He did not like Kolia’s befrizzled and pomaded head, and when his eye fell on Kollomietzev, thought” What a sleek individual.”
Virgin Soil 2003
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