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  • Appearing in the media, he usually looked disheveled, like a vagrant, but today, he was dressed sharply in a suit and dress shoes.†   (source)
  • But his face was unshaven, his clothes disheveled, his name unfamiliar, his address not in an affluent area.†   (source)
  • Like a mirror, but in close-up, it showed Tally as she looked right now: puffy-eyed and disheveled, exhaustion and red scratches marking her face, her hair sticking out in all directions, and her expression turning horrified as she beheld her own appearance.†   (source)
  • I grin at the sight of Uriah's disheveled hair, and the elevator doors open.†   (source)
  • She ran barefoot down to the living room and found Rasheed already by the window, in his undershirt, his hair disheveled, palms pressed to the glass.†   (source)
  • He gave a ferocious yawn and ran his fingers sleepily through his hair, as people often do when they first awake, which likely accounted for its disheveled state.†   (source)
  • No wonder Chaol had looked so disheveled this morning!†   (source)
  • Her disheveled hair dangled around her shocked, gray face.†   (source)
  • Alice reached up and removed his mask, revealing the face of a handsome young man with almond-shaped eyes, a nose that had probably been broken more than once, and dusty, disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • His black hair, normally combed back neatly from his forehead, is disheveled, sections of it on end.†   (source)
  • He looked tired and disheveled, but he managed a slight nod and a small smile—nothing more than an unfortunate wrinkle in the mess that was his face.†   (source)
  • In fact, she's completely disheveled.†   (source)
  • She spun back to Peony—the disheveled blankets, the scratches on her arm, the blue fingertips dangling over the side of the bed.†   (source)
  • Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning.†   (source)
  • Vrolijk Kerstfeest! said the kitchen boy half an hour later — a stout, disheveled teenager straight from Jan Steen with a wreath of tinsel on his head and a sprig of holly behind one ear.†   (source)
  • Disheveled.†   (source)
  • Padre Leo is so disheveled that visitors sometimes mistake him for one of the poor, dirty migrants sitting outside.†   (source)
  • And when he had literally stumbled over the trapdoor's ringbolt he had hurried down as fast as he could, leaving the trap open, sooty and disheveled, with a feeling of disaster barely averted.†   (source)
  • Mother Lois came rushing into the living room, disheveled and frantic.†   (source)
  • He has disheveled, sandy blond hair, and his hazel eyes are magnified by his glasses.†   (source)
  • In the ten years I had been in the kingdom, I had progressed from Billy's subject of patronage to tutor, to confidant, to friend, but never did I pretend to understand this disheveled enigma.†   (source)
  • His hair was dripping wet, disheveled — even so, he looked like he'd just finished shooting a commercial for hair gel.†   (source)
  • No wonder they looked a bit disheveled.†   (source)
  • They're at it again!" she yelled out, her hair disheveled.†   (source)
  • She pounded the knocker of the front door, and it wasn't until the butler came to the door and fixed her with a disdainful stare that she realized how disheveled she must look, how many rules of polite society she was breaking.†   (source)
  • Babette, disheveled, has the careless dignity of someone too preoccupied with serious matters to know or care what she looks like.†   (source)
  • There was something contradictory about his athletic build and his disheveled appearance.†   (source)
  • Valentine's black eyes raked her slowly, from the top of her disheveled head to the toes of her scuffed sneakers.†   (source)
  • He wore a slightly disheveled look, as if he'd only woken up a few minutes ago.†   (source)
  • The fastidious dresser became a disheveled wreck who wandered the streets with musical instruments, slept in the woods and carved names into trees.†   (source)
  • My home was disheveled but not yet wrecked when she first started kissing my husband, reaching inside his trousers, slipping into bed with him.†   (source)
  • They found the Captain in the dining room, in a disheveled condition that did not accord with his habitual neatness: he was unshaven, his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his clothing was still sweaty from the previous night, his speech was interrupted by belches of anisette.†   (source)
  • "Oh no, oh no, oh no," their mother was muttering, running her hands distractedly through her already disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • Because now the girl with the disheveled hair, who'd been rushing to the school as we'd left for breakfast, came to the front of the room and bowed.†   (source)
  • Jordan waved to a tall, disheveled guy who was setting up his cello on the grass.†   (source)
  • They were disheveled and breathing heavily, as if they'd run here all the way from Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • He wanted to tidy up his mother's flower garden, a treasured patch of disheveled foliage that grew beneath her bedroom window.†   (source)
  • Her hair was disheveled on the brow and trailing at the neck: she looked weary and old.†   (source)
  • There are simply hundreds of disheveled men staring in bafflement at the pitched tents of another circus.†   (source)
  • Cook comes up behind Izzi, and I'm shocked to see that she too is disheveled, her eyes red-rimmed.†   (source)
  • Gene Johnson is a large man, not to say massive, with a broad, heavy face and loose-flying disheveled brown hair and a bushy brown beard and a gut that hangs over his belt, and glaring, deep eyes.†   (source)
  • At his kindness her eyes filled with tears, but then she imagined it, the lights and sirens and gentle hands, how David would come hurrying and find her in the ER, disheveled and bloody and somewhat drunk: a scandal and a disgrace.†   (source)
  • He would take long perilous night walks home from his jobs, sometimes arriving with his knuckles scuffed and his clothes disheveled.†   (source)
  • "Good to see my lessons were of some benefit to you," Clancy snarled, raking a hand through his disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • I tumbled into my new steel-toed shoes and presented myself at the correctional officers' office, totally disheveled and with unbrushed teeth.†   (source)
  • Then the entrance to the tent was swept aside for a second time, and Arya stormed out, bare-armed and disheveled.†   (source)
  • A richly embroidered scarf is wrapped tightly about her head and her jewelry is pure gold, but otherwise, she is disheveled.†   (source)
  • He was "dirty, disheveled, and gross," she says.†   (source)
  • His white hair is so disheveled that he momentarily reminds me of a mad scientist.†   (source)
  • Her hair was disheveled but I saw no marks on her face.†   (source)
  • Chris Raleigh came in about eight, tossing a surprised look at my bleary eyes and disheveled appearance.†   (source)
  • He knelt there, his head thrown back, so the wavy blond hair bung loose and disheveled.†   (source)
  • Two days after her dream, Esteban Trueba came home earlier than was his custom, pale and disheveled, grabbed his sister Ferula by the arm, and led her into the library.†   (source)
  • Milo hauled violently at a disheveled hunk of his off-colored mustache.†   (source)
  • Macon stood there in the doorway, a disheveled mess.†   (source)
  • Sweating, dirty, and disheveled—we must've been a sight.†   (source)
  • He's got disheveled brown hair and smells of cigarettes, and is wearing an old-looking jacket over a dark red shirt with no tie.†   (source)
  • When they went looking for him the first time they found a babbling, disheveled white man, pacing in his quarters.†   (source)
  • The door opened and Carlos marched a disheveled Monique de Raison forward.†   (source)
  • He moved in a loose-jointed, disheveled sort of way, all arms and legs, talking in Yiddish to one of his teammates and ignoring me completely as he passed by.†   (source)
  • An unkempt and disheveled looking man appeared at a doorway in the building.†   (source)
  • It was mildly, irrationally surprising to hear that tone from her, naked and disheveled as she was, and not in uniform.†   (source)
  • In New York City, on 138th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, the hard core of Harlem, a large disheveled black man in his mid-thirties staggered up the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • I looked at her, all disheveled, spattered with blood, and imagined myself looking worse.†   (source)
  • A pretty, buxom girl of seventeen or eighteen years was in his lap, barefoot and disheveled, her arms around his neck.†   (source)
  • Cora Lee sighed slowly, turned her head from her soap opera, and looked around the disheveled living room at the howling and flying bodies that were throwing dingy school books at each other, jumping off of crippled furniture, and swinging on her sagging velveteen draperies.†   (source)
  • A disheveled Second Year came racing down the staircase, carrying far too many books and chomping maniacally upon a slice of ham.†   (source)
  • The harassment had taken toll on his father's face, his hair disheveled, purple crescents under his eyes.†   (source)
  • He had dark eyes, disheveled hair, and his clothes were expensive, but worn as if he did not care or notice what he wore.†   (source)
  • "I'm very sorry," I said, feeling completely disheveled.†   (source)
  • Their eyes were glazed, their hair looked as if it had been disheveled in a hurricane, and they said things that were far different from words.†   (source)
  • The man who stood in the doorway looked at her coldly, looked with unconcealed astonishment and fear at the eleven disheveled runaways who were standing near her.†   (source)
  • The white face, a blackening bruise just under the eye, raw, bleeding scrapes on the cheek, wild disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • I heard him shuffling there, waiting, and I knew exactly what he looked like: coarse hair disheveled, pants baggy and wrinkled, faded bedroom shoes, but his white dress shirt with sleeves rolled three-quarter would look like it had just been starched and pressed.†   (source)
  • His disheveled appearance surprised Gabriel.†   (source)
  • Angeline stood it with noble stoicism for about an hour and then, sadly disheveled, she attempted to protect herself by sitting on her tail and tucking her mauled head down between her legs.†   (source)
  • Her chestnut hair was disheveled, her eyes, a deep and stirring blue, round in apprehension.†   (source)
  • Among my other disheveled qualities was apparently an inattention to personal hygiene, hence I soon became known as Stinky.†   (source)
  • His glasses were thick, his hair was disheveled and wildly amassed on a narrow, strikingly intelligent head.†   (source)
  • — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†   (source)
  • It has a slightly disheveled, lopsided look.†   (source)
  • But you wondered, seeing Albert, whom talking seemed rather to dishevel, whether it had not continued to be a rough and violent game which Ellie, as the older and stronger, had taught him to play with her.†   (source)
  • His face was pale and drawn, his hair disheveled.†   (source)
  • Her hair is disheveled, and her socks don't match.†   (source)
  • By the time I got back to the road I was disheveled and bramble-scratched.†   (source)
  • Filthy, disheveled, Winky peered around Snape's legs.†   (source)
  • A familiar disheveled head pops between Mer and me, and we jump like startled cats.†   (source)
  • Sam and Emily both look disheveled and have clearly been making out.†   (source)
  • His lemon, lamp-lit hair is disheveled and he wears a sad, absurd smile.†   (source)
  • Why, might I ask, are you so disheveled?†   (source)
  • And is it my imagination, or is his hair more disheveled than usual?†   (source)
  • The room is illuminated in its disheveled entirety.†   (source)
  • His hair was even more disheveled than normal.†   (source)
  • He could not let Asha see him disheveled and soaked with sweat.†   (source)
  • Her hair, usually smooth and perfect in its knot, is disheveled.†   (source)
  • He was still sitting in bed, his hair disheveled.†   (source)
  • Her hair was disheveled and her bedclothes all atangle, Dany realized.†   (source)
  • Orear grinned and ran a hand through his already-disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • He was disheveled, his clothes and face streaked with dirt and soot.†   (source)
  • His hair was disheveled, and large dark rings hung from both eyes.†   (source)
  • Her black hair was completely disheveled.†   (source)
  • She sat up with her hair disheveled and the bedclothes atangle.†   (source)
  • Women, disheveled and stooped, blinked at us like moles.†   (source)
  • She wore a wrinkled cotton dress, and her hair was disheveled by hours of driving.†   (source)
  • She tangled her hands in his silky, disheveled hair, holding his head as he kissed down her throat.†   (source)
  • Bellatrix had spoken: She sat closest to Voldemort, disheveled, her face a little bloody but otherwise unharmed.†   (source)
  • The site, therefore, of Fudge stepping out of the fire once more, looking disheveled and fretful and sternly surprised that the Prime Minister did not know exactly why he was there, was about the worst thing that had happened in the course of this extremely gloomy week.†   (source)
  • At the foot of Harry's mattress he saw two large, disheveled shapes emerging from tangles of blankets.†   (source)
  • I could go to the Commander, fall on the floor, my hair disheveled, as they say, grab him around the knees, confess, weep, implore.†   (source)
  • They passed through poorly lit hallways where barefoot children stepped aside and watched They had disheveled hair or shaved scalps.†   (source)
  • But he's running out of time, and I think what must have happened is: He sees this disheveled living room—and so he thinks, Leave it.†   (source)
  • He wanted a disheveled Beethoven lost in thought as he conceived the Ninth Symphony while walking through the woods, hands behind his back holding hat and cane.†   (source)
  • His hair was dripping wet, disheveled — even so, he looked like he'd just finished shooting a commercial for hair gel.†   (source)
  • Still, in Gloria's disheveled home, where the back door is left open to the muddy yard, her efforts are futile.†   (source)
  • "What's happened to you?" asked Harry, for Hermione looked distinctly disheveled, rather as though she had just fought her way out of a thicket of Devil's Snare.†   (source)
  • Chapter Thirty-One The Battle of Hogwarts The enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns.†   (source)
  • Why are you so disheveled?†   (source)
  • He almost came to enjoy finding a smoldering rafter or disheveled slab of concrete to prop those elbows up, to give them something to rest on.†   (source)
  • Tanner— The doorbell rang, and I opened the door while hiding behind it because I was still disheveled; my spiky hair and wilted boxers would tell their own story.†   (source)
  • Hermione shrieked and dropped Secrets of the Darkest Art; Crookshanks streaked under the bed, hissing indignantly; Ron jumped off the bed, skidded on a discarded Chocolate Frog wrapper, and smacked his head on the opposite wall; and Harry instinctively dived for his wand before realizing that he was looking up at Mrs. Weasley, whose hair was disheveled and whose face was contorted with rage.†   (source)
  • Later that evening, Laila thought of how the melee had toppled over, with men falling on top of one another, amid yelps and cries and shouts and flying punches, and, in the middle of it, a grimacing Tariq, his hair disheveled, his leg come undone, trying to crawl out.†   (source)
  • His hair was disheveled.†   (source)
  • His hair is completely disheveled, and he's wearing his Napoleon shirt, which is more wrinkled than ever.†   (source)
  • While her mom loved the pheasant at the country club, Dad preferred biscuits and gravy at the local diner; while Mom never walked as far as the mailbox without her makeup, Dad wore jeans, and his hair was always a bit disheveled.†   (source)
  • One of them was to maintain a certain status of worshiper-for the benefit of other worshipers-and this elderly, disheveled derelict hardly fit the mold.†   (source)
  • Not Edward, his bare chest glinting dimly in the white lights, or even me, disheveled and comparatively hideous.†   (source)
  • Tom flops into a chair and tries to muster what dignity he has left by arranging and rearranging his disheveled tie.†   (source)
  • His wrinkled pants lent a disheveled air to his appearance that grew more pronounced as the years wore on, especially after the passing of his wife.†   (source)
  • He had gone the disheveled route: rumpled blazer and tousled hair and now no tie, and his skin was all gold from the springtime sunshine, and he was so beautiful that it made her heart hurt.†   (source)
  • Her short blond hair was disheveled and her face was drawn-not exactly the tempting, sexy look he had expected.†   (source)
  • It was such an unbreakable decision that Aureliano Segundo went back to her house eight months after the last message and found her green disheveled, with sunken eyelids and skin spangled with mange, but she was writing out numbers on small pieces of paper to make a raffle.†   (source)
  • Clary hadn't realized quite how disheveled she looked: her coat streaked with dust, her hair snarled from the wind.†   (source)
  • Max glided past him, taking in a small octagonal room furnished with a desk, a computer monitor, and a couch whose cushions betrayed the fading imprint of the disheveled analyst.†   (source)
  • Ryan Evans was dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt, no shoes, at least a few days' growth on his face, his short brown hair disheveled and dirty.†   (source)
  • Frank seemed to have aged ten years since the night before; disheveled and downcast, he was the picture of misery, but she could summon no feeling of sympathy for the guilt she knew that he was feeling.†   (source)
  • And despite his disheveled appearance, he didn't reek like a normal homeless person—body odor, alcohol, stale grease.†   (source)
  • Susie has yellow hair, which I can tell she rolls and sets and then dishevels, and tips ash-blond at the ends.†   (source)
  • Instead, David's mother opened the door, looking sleepy and disheveled as Lila trailed at her skirts.†   (source)
  • Clay Whitaker is chasing me on my way to first period on Thursday, hair as disheveled as his clothes, looking every bit a refugee from the Island of Misfit Boys.†   (source)
  • He straightened his disheveled clothing with fingers that were numb and shaking and walked the rest of the way to the clearing with rigid self-control.†   (source)
  • The blankets had marked a line across her cheek, fading now, and her clothes, the Nilter trousers and quilted shirt under the unfastened inner coat, were wrinkled and disheveled.†   (source)
  • Nasuada's hair was disheveled.†   (source)
  • Where everyone else looked bloodstained and disheveled, he was unmarked—except for a double line of scratches that ran the length of his left cheek, as if something had clawed at him with a taloned hand.†   (source)
  • He stopped in front of her and took off his hat, and then she saw the beautiful black eyes shining between a disheveled head of hair and a rough beard.†   (source)
  • Her clothes were disheveled, her blouse crumpled and hastily knotted in front, her baggy pants torn at the side along the seam, exposing a pale sliver of skin.†   (source)
  • "Signora," Alessandro said to Attilia, addressing her formally, as if to balance his disheveled appearance and gaunt expression, "do you know about dreams?†   (source)
  • Their hair had once been piled in curls, arranged with jewels in the style of Roman noblewomen, but now their locks were disheveled and dry as straw.†   (source)
  • There had been a disheveled beggar yesterday, about the same size, the same … No, this old man's shoes were shined, his white hair combed neatly, and the suit of clothes, although from another decade, were of good quality.†   (source)
  • The blunt-featured, blunt-spoken Komitet officer in the disheveled uniform lived up to his appearance.†   (source)
  • Isabelle had explained to him that his movements had become graceful and that, whereas before he had seemed disheveled, somehow now he looked attractively rumpled, as if he had just gotten out of bed.†   (source)
  • He was staring at me over his drawn-up knees, his hair disheveled, his mouth slack and without cunning.†   (source)
  • Liv had arrived from her office in the interval, and she was not looking like herself; she was disheveled and not wearing makeup and drinking a non-diet Coke.†   (source)
  • SEVERAL HOURS later when Ariane crossed the green to sign the nurses' muster sheet, her face was red and her hair disheveled in a fashion that connoted neither the pressing-down of sleep nor the action of the wind, but something quite different.†   (source)
  • Disheveled and cold, they seemed pretty interested in our little group huddled next to the Danbury bus.†   (source)
  • The disheveled Chinese screamed and with a shattering crash overturned the table as waiters raced, shrieking, towards the flames.†   (source)
  • Another figure … another old man in disheveled clothing Morris Panov approached the intersection still bothered by the curious telephone conversation he had had ten minutes ago, still trying to recall each segment of the plan he was to follow, afraid to look at his watch to see if he had reached a specific place within a specific time span-he had been told not to look at his watch in the street … and why couldn't they say "at approximately such and such" rather than the somewhat…†   (source)
  • The disheveled artist boy, whose name I have since learned—by surreptitiously glancing at the cover on his sketchbook—is Clay, was kind enough to give me an unsolicited short list of my best bets for solitude when he caught me trying the doors to the English wing again on the second day.†   (source)
  • She was completely disheveled, covered with dust, bleary-eyed, and doubled over from the pain of the contractions with which Alba was pushing her way out.†   (source)
  • A disheveled woman rushed up to Dagny, waving two tickets and screaming something about the wrong date.†   (source)
  • She always looked disheveled, though, emerging from our cell with her twists sticking out in all directions.†   (source)
  • She wore slacks, rolled above the knees of her bare legs, she had dark, disheveled hair and large eyes.†   (source)
  • In the week or two after he had first shown them to me, I encountered him several times, each instance finding him further disheveled in appearance, wholly unwashed (and reeking most awfully, even more than the camp norm), as well as being slightly jumpy and skittish, with a scattered gaze.†   (source)
  • And what would I have done had I opened that doorway, had I been confronted again with those remains, that matted, disheveled golden hair?†   (source)
  • From his exposed perspective, however, not that it mattered, it looked as if he would land in the upper course of the Talvera, which made a disheveled green-and-white line through the gray rock of the lower valley.†   (source)
  • He followed the road in the direction the Frenchman had indicated, but he had no need to ride all the way to the river, because halfway there he ran into Blanca, who was returning to the house, humming as she walked, her hair disheveled, her clothing dirty, with the happy look of those who have nothing else to ask from life.†   (source)
  • His blanched, contorted face strained as the sound died in his throat, and he nodded desperately, his red hair loose and disheveled, falling into his eyes.†   (source)
  • Unlike the new paintings, with their disheveled and hallucinatory colors, each and every one of Raphael's brush strokes, all of his shining planes, the rendering of the air in light-whether bright or subdued, whether of morning sky or evening star-was disciplined with an iron hand.†   (source)
  • On his first visit to see me, he had the misfortune of arriving at the same time as the airlift transport bus, and lie was treated to the sight of disheveled women in jumpsuits entering the FCI in full shackles, supervised by guards with high-gauge rifles.†   (source)
  • It took her a moment to realize that the eager, breathless, disheveled young man was Quentin Daniels.†   (source)
  • He saw a head bent over sheets of paper, the light of the desk lamp glistening on strands of disheveled hair, a white shirt clinging to her shoulders, its loose folds suggesting the thinness of her body.†   (source)
  • After a while, he said, "If I long for a thunderstorm in Rome sixty years ago, or seventy, for the heavy rain and the disheveled lightning, for the wet trees that were completely free and completely abandoned, it's not because of the rain, or the quiet, or the ticking of the clock in the hallway-all of which I remember-but because of my mother and my father, who held me at the window as we watched the storm.†   (source)
  • The man standing on the threshold, with disheveled hair, a soot-streaked face and furnace-smudged arms, dressed in scorched overalls and bloodstained shirt, standing as if he wore a cape waving behind him in the wind, was Francisco d'Anconia.†   (source)
  • She saw a young girl wearing a suit too smart and expensive for the neighborhood, with no hat, no purse, with a broken heel, disheveled hair and a bruise at the corner of her mouth, a girl staggering blindly, not knowing sidewalks from pavements.†   (source)
  • In old age Miss Katie showed what a neat, narrow head she had under the hair no longer disheveled and flyaway.†   (source)
  • I was able to discern only her disheveled mane of straw-colored hair and, behind Nathan's shoulder, about a third of her face.†   (source)
  • She made little clucking sounds at her disheveled favorite, enticing him with the remnants of a bagel.†   (source)
  • Visions of Sophie's pathetic and disheveled agony, her total disarray, kept flashing on and off in my mind, causing my stomach to heave.†   (source)
  • His face set in an expressionless mask, manacled, gaunt and unshaven as he stood in disheveled prison fatigues, the ex-Commandant was clearly at the edge of embarking upon a momentous journey.†   (source)
  • She was hollow-eyed and disheveled, exhausted-looking, and the skin of her face had the washed-out sickly blue of skim milk—but mainly she looked aged, an old lady of forty.†   (source)
  • This happiness, together with the look of appeal on that radiant face, was something that even in my disheveled morning state I found altogether seductive—no, irresistible.†   (source)
  • He wore what I believe was called a Palm Beach suit, tan, smartly tailored and perceivably high-priced, and it helped make him appear not even a distant cousin of that wild apparition I had first set eyes on only days before, disheveled, in baggy slacks, raging at Sophie in the hallway.†   (source)
  • They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled.†   (source)
  • The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them.†   (source)
  • Everyone will know about his drinking; he'll disappear for two or three days every month or so, and they'll all nod and smile and say in their various accents, "Old Sebastian's on the spree again," and then he'll come back disheveled and shamefaced and be more devout for a day or two in the chapel.†   (source)
  • She rubbed her palms against her thighs, thumbed them to see if they were dry and then dried them on her disheveled hair.†   (source)
  • A gaunt young man stood on the threshold; he had disheveled hair, a strong mouth with a square lower lip, and the most expressive eyes that Roark had ever seen.†   (source)
  • He reappeared the next morning as she was breakfasting in her room, disheveled, quite drunk and in his worst sarcastic mood, and neither made excuses nor gave an account of his absence.†   (source)
  • In the overcoat buttoned awry over the bathrobe he looked huge and shapeless like a disheveled bear as he stared at Quentin (the Southerner, whose blood ran quick to cool, more supple to compensate for violent changes of temperature perhaps, perhaps merely nearer the surface) who sat hunched in his chair, his hands thrust into his pockets as if he were trying to hug himself warm between his arms, looking somehow fragile and even wan in the lamplight, the rosy glow which now had nothing…†   (source)
  • She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with rouge and mascara, her hair a bit disheveled, her hat on anyhow.†   (source)
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