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  • Large crowds turned out to see them, fascinated by their traditional clothing, top-knot hairstyle, and prominent samurai swords.

    Japan and US Celebrate Diplomatic Milestones 2010

  • He saw himself in the mirror: a thin, drawn face made fuller by the bush of greying beard; two charcoal eyes full of uncertainty: his hair and the top-knot.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Large crowds turned out to see them, fascinated by their traditional clothing, top-knot hairstyle, and prominent samurai swords.

    Japan and US Celebrate Diplomatic Milestones 2010

  • One was made by a buckskin hunter who was divesting a corpse of all the skin and hair above its ears, at which his mate, neatly removing the top-knot from another head, remarked that the first chap was being unnecessarily thorough, surely, to which the buckskin man replied that the Chihuahua authorities liked to see a full scalp.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The first of them was a stout boy, with a white top-knot and spectacles.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • The first of them was a stout boy, with a white top-knot and spectacles.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • Pantaleone chewed his lips and shook his immense top-knot of hair.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • And can you really call yourself The Bad One if you have a top-knot pony tail?

    WARRIOR #34 DC Comics, 1995 David Campbell 2006

  • And can you really call yourself The Bad One if you have a top-knot pony tail?

    Archive 2006-10-01 David Campbell 2006

  • I dare say she wore a nose ring when she went to court; and with a plume of feathers in her top-knot she would look a perfect Belle

    Vanity Fair 2006

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