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These ancient flat – topped tree – ferns, these towsled palms like mops.
Kangaroo 2004
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Through the bars of the double line of windows on the second and the third stories peer the murky faces and towsled heads of some of the inmates.
Through Russia 2003
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"How do you do, " said Perce, and bobbed his towsled head, going a brilliant scarlet with his effort at manners.
The Mystery of the Vanished Prince Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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Fatty appeared eventually, his hair towsled, his eyes bright, holding Buster in such a tight grip that the dog couldn't move even a leg.
The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952
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Her hair, never very orderly at best, was towsled by the wind, and her cheeks glowed.
Phyllis A Twin Dorothy Whitehill
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"I dunno, Missy," returned Bill, scratching his towsled head in perplexity.
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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He was looking at his donkeys when Philip put a towsled head out of the tent opening to sniff at the morning.
The Mountain of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1949
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Its brightness showed the dewy roundness, towsled with perplexity, of a doe-eyed girl of Ellen's age.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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He had been told that London flower-girls were pretty ... and he had seen only coarse and unclean women, with towsled hair.
The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927
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A towsled woman or child drifted now and then into the mesón shop to buy a Mexican cent's worth of firewood.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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