curly-pated

Geiton the hero, a handsome, curly-pated hobbledehoy of seventeen, with his câlinerie and wheedling tongue, is courted like one of the sequor sexus: his lovers are inordinately jealous of him and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

She intended also that her little boy, her fair-haired, curly-pated, bold-faced little boy, should be Earl of Silverbridge when the sand of the old man should have run itself out.

Phineas Finn 2004

Tarma looked around the common room, and was mildly surprised to see that they were the only occupants other than a scruffy, curly-pated minstrel-type tucked up in one corner.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

When he died, the widow was left with ten thousand pounds and the handsome, curly-pated, mischievous boy.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

By slow degrees she is won over by the frolicsome humor of the curly-pated boy, who never once quits her side, into cheerful prattle with him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

"Did I know curly-pated, black-eyed Master Charley?" asked the old woman.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Various

A grizzly brown sailor and his curly-pated son were the oarsmen; in the stern sat a couple of Keith's attendants, whom Mr. Heard might have mistaken for two Green genii but for the fact that between them lay an enormous and hideously modern receptacle of wicker-work which impaired the illusion.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

So she never raised her voice to him, though she did often to the others, -- to curly-pated Cecco, and pretty black-eyed Dina, and saucy Bice, and sturdy Beppo, and even to the good, manly, hard-working Tasso.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The sturdy, curly-pated, blue-eyed lad -- Labradorman, every luscious inch of him: without a drop of weakling blood in his stout little body!

Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

The big, curly-pated fellow you took home in the carriage? ...

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892