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For, behold, the Esplanade, over all its spacious expanse, is covered with groups of squalid dripping Women; of lankhaired male

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

A strange, chill, almost ghastly dayspring strikes up in Yankeeland itself: my Transcendental friends announce there, in a distinct, though somewhat lankhaired, ungainly manner, that the Demiurgus Dollar is dethroned; that new unheard-of Demiurgusships, Priesthoods,

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

A strange, chill, almost ghastly dayspring strikes up in Yankeeland itself: my Transcendental friends announce there, in a distinct, though somewhat lankhaired, ungainly manner, that the Demiurgus Dollar is dethroned; that new unheard-of

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard, and where lankhaired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses; Jew coffee houses where darkeyed money changers from Venice and Amsterdam greeted each other; and Popish coffee houses where, as good Protestants believed, Jesuits planned, over their cups, another great fire, and cast silver bullets to shoot the King.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

The bride was Nancy Garrido, the lankhaired, wretched-looking woman who was arrested with him, and must surely have been complicit in Jaycee's kidnap, at the very least.

Home | Mail Online 2009

He was holding the CD case up at her, its clear plastic wrapping flaring under the restaurant lights, and shaking his long, narrow, lankhaired head like she’d slapped him in the face or something.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011