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An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher.

Westward Ho! 2007

The waiter, though, bowed before us -- a shockheaded personage in the ruins of a dress suit -- at the same time saying words which I took to be complimentary until one of my friends explained that he had called us something that might be freely translated as a certain kind of female lobster.

Europe Revised 1910

John Flint knew inoffensive, timid Michael; he knew his broad-bosomed, patient, cowlike wife, and he liked the brood of shockheaded youngsters who plodded along patient in old clothes, bare-footed, and with scanty enough food.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

And Ambrose Campany, a cheery-faced, middle-aged man, with booklover and antiquary written all over him, shockheaded, blue-spectacled, was there now, talking to an old man whom Bryce knew as a neighbour of his in Friary

The Paradise Mystery 1899

Then he pulled himself together by a great effort, and fixing his eyes on a shockheaded urchin half way down the church, read the service to him.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

And my grandmother had tales o 'auld Ettericks who rade wi' Douglas and the Bruce and the ancient Kings o 'Scots; and she used to tell o' others in her mother's time, terrible shockheaded men hunting the deer and rinnin 'on the high moors, and bidin' in the broken stane biggings on the hill-taps. "

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907