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  • As we stepped into the room, the man in the wheelchair looked up from under shaggy, unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • "Forgive me," he said, clearing his throat and running his fingers through his unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • In front of the sink stood an unkempt woman with gray hair stringing about her face.†   (source)
  • His auburn hair is lank and unkempt, and his eyes are bloodshot.†   (source)
  • Her unkempt ways, a challenge to his increasingly minimalist taste, charm him.†   (source)
  • Thick hair, shaggy and unkempt and black as ink.†   (source)
  • Her eyes focused the shapes into Dr. Erland's wool hat and sky blue eyes, and Prince Kai with strands of black hair hanging unkempt across his brow.†   (source)
  • Further along, past the Pond, where the path turned empty and dark, was the unkempt and desolate patch of ground where Andy and I had scattered her ashes.†   (source)
  • He lies, unkempt and unwashed, in a tangle of sheets on the bed, passed out.†   (source)
  • They were a motley crew of girls and boys, ragged, with wild hairdos and unkempt jackets, hooting and making noise, and only when they were almost upon me did I recognize the faces of my elder siblings and my little sister Kathy who trailed behind them.†   (source)
  • It's a disturbing thing, after a decade of being told to tuck in shirttails and walk like a lady, to see your own mother unkempt.†   (source)
  • Unkempt and dirty looking.†   (source)
  • I could see they were really beat up, wearing battered combat gear, all of them with several days' growth of beard They were covered in mud, unkempt, and all grinning broadly.†   (source)
  • He knew that in many places the grounds did look sparse and unkempt and that much work remained—anyone could see the gaps—but to hear about it from others, especially from a man whom he admired and respected, was profoundly depressing.†   (source)
  • His winged character is literally caged; moreover, he's dirty and unkempt and bug-ridden, not at all what we expect from potential angels.†   (source)
  • With his dark unkempt hair, his unlined face, he looked no more than twenty-five.†   (source)
  • Unkempt, unshaven, without a morsel of food inside me, I trudged around from morning to night, from one firm to another, begging people to take pity on us.†   (source)
  • He shook his head so that his unkempt hair — grown out to his chin now — tickled my cheek.†   (source)
  • He had a long unkempt beard, a snub nose, eyes like gimlets, and chubby cheeks.†   (source)
  • I arrived in San Francisco, leaner than usual, fairly unkempt, and with no luggage.†   (source)
  • There were big circles under his eyes; his hair was unkempt.†   (source)
  • He had an unkempt beard and unruly hair, and when he smiled nervously at the doctors trooping in, I saw he still had most of his teeth but probably wouldn't for long.†   (source)
  • Not unkempt by any means, but she was no longer an heiress.†   (source)
  • His graying hair and forked beard were long and unkempt.†   (source)
  • The door to the dormitory opens, and Tris walks in, hair unkempt and eyes wild.†   (source)
  • Hormoz and Ellen told it to us together as we sat in the hall of their unkempt apartment on Friday afternoon.†   (source)
  • When I was underground, I remained as unkempt as possible.†   (source)
  • He was an incredible size even sitting down, with long unkempt hair, bulging eyes, and a shape hardly worth speaking of.†   (source)
  • As he ate, he noted Horst's bloodshot eyes and unkempt beard.†   (source)
  • Now I hear the voices telling me how the grass will grow tall on the unkempt lawns; how Dona Laura's hanging orchids will burst their wire baskets, their frail blossoms eaten by bugs; how the birdcages will stand empty, the poor having poached the tortolas and guineas that Don Carlos took so much trouble to raise; how the swimming pools will fill with trash and leaves and dead things.†   (source)
  • Her week in the cotton mill had fixed indelibly on her mind the picture of the mill child, straggling to work in the gray dawn, sleepy, shivering, unkempt; of the young things creeping up and down the aisles between the endlessly turning spools, dully regarding the frames to see that the threads were not fouled or broken; of the tired little groups as they pressed close to the shut windows, neglecting their work to stare out into a world of blue sky and blowing airs—a world they could…†   (source)
  • Deranged, but not because she was unkempt or wild in her overall appearance.†   (source)
  • Red Team was commanded by a man who looked at a long-haired, unkempt, seat-of-the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a soul mate.†   (source)
  • College kids, gently unkempt.†   (source)
  • His hair was long and unkempt.†   (source)
  • His hair, unkempt and windblown, made him look like a college student.†   (source)
  • Now she was odd, murky, and worst of all, unkempt.†   (source)
  • My gown was stained and wrinkled from the journey, and my hair was probably limp and unkempt.†   (source)
  • Clay picks me up at eight in the morning, wearing a long-sleeved button-down shirt and dress pants, and not even remotely resembling the artfully unkempt mess I'm used to seeing.†   (source)
  • Whether it was an unkempt mustache as in Meggesto's case, or grainy beads of sweat, it was an ugliness I focused on as each one cross-examined me.†   (source)
  • While the man leaned against a tree and vomited, Ferula and Clara cleaned the diit and pebbles that had got into Nivea's ears, nose, and mouth, and arranged her hair, which had become rather unkempt, but they were unable to close her eyes.†   (source)
  • The path wound on and on, snaking through unkempt fields and groves of uncultivated trees, wild with brambles and bushes.†   (source)
  • With dinnertime approaching on this Wednesday night, he picks up the phone near Rob's unkempt bed, dial's Zayd's number, and soon they're scarfing lasagna at a long table in the VeeDub.†   (source)
  • Ghosh kept nodding his head, a big smile on his face, waving, keeping up an agitated chatter, "I know, I know, you unkempt rascal, good morning to you, too, yes indeed, I have come to delight in this heathen spectacle ….†   (source)
  • Many of the houses were unkempt, and there were very few hydrangea bushes or morning glories on the front lawns.†   (source)
  • No makeup, unkempt hair, the frazzled look of a wife/mother/woman out of control.†   (source)
  • An unkempt and disheveled looking man appeared at a doorway in the building.†   (source)
  • Even in uniform he looked perpetually unkempt.†   (source)
  • His hair and eyebrows were now a dull red-dirty, unkempt red, which fit his new surroundings, a cheap hotel in Montparnasse whose front desk wanted as little contact as possible with its clientele.†   (source)
  • Walking up to the house, I noticed how worn and lifeless the grass had become and how overgrown and unkempt the bushes were.†   (source)
  • Petra clasped my hand nervously, but for the moment all the ragged, unkempt bowmen were still more interested in the horses than in us.†   (source)
  • He was sitting across the aisle in the row behind them, pale and unkempt, with short black hair still damp from the rain.†   (source)
  • I swallow, suddenly feeling awkward and unkempt.†   (source)
  • There were also the faces of loose-mouthed young men and maliciously unkempt females, the kind who led the booing in newsreel theaters at any appearance of a businessman on the screen; they did not attempt a counter-demonstration; they were silent.†   (source)
  • It should've made him look unkempt, but somehow he managed to look oddly dashing.†   (source)
  • Sedgwick, also a known abolitionist, was a thick unkempt man with a ruddy complexion, fat and reaching sideburns, and a rapidly receding dark brown hairline.†   (source)
  • After he left his boys' school he reverted to his old, unkempt ways, and goes around in his moccasins and his sweaters with the worn-through elbows.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I see," she said softly, brushing back loose ends of her wispy hair, which was fetchingly unkempt.†   (source)
  • At first Alessandro focused on the two who were neater and more civilized than their colleague, the third, an unkempt giant with fleshy red lips and bulging eyes, but the ordinary-looking ones were set in their ways and would not hear of trading jobs.†   (source)
  • He looked like poor grade of salvage—dirty clothes, filthy himself, hair unkempt, paralyzed down one side and hand twisted, one eye a film of cataract—perfect picture of old wrecks who sleep in Bottom Alley and cadge drinks and pickled eggs in cheap taprooms.†   (source)
  • His beard was unkempt, streaked with gray, and damp with sweat.†   (source)
  • She was messy that way, never unkempt but always looking like she'd just been working on something important, something that just couldn't wait.†   (source)
  • He no longer looked like a Caesar, but like an unkempt Jove armed with thunderbolts.†   (source)
  • Why, then, did Sophie have the rare experience of meeting a doctor like Jemand von Niemand in his plastered condition, cross-eyed with booze and so unkempt that he still bore on his lapel grains of greasy rice from a probably long and sodden repast?†   (source)
  • When they came to Bill Ferny's house they saw that the hedge there was tattered and unkempt, and the windows were all boarded up.†   (source)
  • The third child is HELEN, six and a half years old, quite unkempt, in body a vivacious little person with a fine head, attractive, but noticeably blind, one eye larger and protruding; her gestures are abrupt, insistent, lacking in human restraint, and her face never smiles.†   (source)
  • There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground.†   (source)
  • He was even thinner, more neglected, and more unkempt than when he went to Yuriatin after escaping from the partisans.†   (source)
  • BERENGER is unshaven and hatless, with unkempt hair and creased clothes; everything about him indicates negligence.†   (source)
  • His thin, colorless hair was unkempt and there was a large bald patch on top.†   (source)
  • She brought home long-haired, unkempt boys who ate Pari's food and played the guitar badly.†   (source)
  • Sirius smiled bitterly and ran his fingers through his long, unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • His long white candyfloss hair was dirty and unkempt.†   (source)
  • Toys, bald tires, and beer bottles with peeling labels littered unkempt front lawns.†   (source)
  • "Sorry," she says, feeling clumsy, unkempt.†   (source)
  • They could see the top of an unkempt gingery head and a stack of precariously balanced cauldrons.†   (source)
  • The hair that had once been set in elaborate curls now hung lank and unkempt around her face.†   (source)
  • He was thin and drawn, with pale cheeks, unkempt beard, and too-bright eyes.†   (source)
  • Jessica hit the ground softly, her fall broken by the unkempt grass.†   (source)
  • The Imp's clothing was soiled and unkempt, Sansa noticed; it looked as though he'd slept in it.†   (source)
  • Jessica dismounted and walked her bike over the unkempt lawn to the tree.†   (source)
  • Filthy, unkempt creatures, with leather shields and axes.†   (source)
  • Nor was she dirty; unkempt, yes, but not dirty.†   (source)
  • In contrast to General Steyn, Mr. Hynning was a heavyset, unkempt man.†   (source)
  • His hair is unwashed and unkempt, his green eyes bloodshot, his mouth twitching into a frown.†   (source)
  • The apartment was small and somewhat unkempt, but it was safer than the street.†   (source)
  • Her hair fell to her shoulders, undressed and unkempt.†   (source)
  • A scrubby beard and mustache made him look unkempt.†   (source)
  • When Rasheed opened the front gate, Mariam found herself in a small, unkempt yard where yellow grass struggled up in thin patches.†   (source)
  • Chapter Twelve Magic is Might As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown.†   (source)
  • The other passengers in back — (unkempt handlebar-moustache guy; grown woman with braces; anxious black mom with elementary-school girl; W. C. Fields—looking oldster with nose tubes and oxygen canister) — all seemed too surprised to talk, though the little girl, eyes round, shook her head almost imperceptibly: no. The driver waited.†   (source)
  • His auburn hair had grown shaggy and unkempt, and a reddish stubble covered his jaw, making him look older than his fifteen years.†   (source)
  • One rainy afternoon while walking into town, I crossed paths with an unkempt, agitated man who appeared to be about forty.†   (source)
  • He looks just as he did on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, a tall, thin, healthy man in his early forties, with unkempt hair and his trademark horn-rimmed eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • One was pale with wildly unkempt orange hair and was dressed in the same warrior-like body armor and weaponry that Sybil's guard wore.†   (source)
  • He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly and asked his name.†   (source)
  • The longer Harry looked at Neville, the worse he appeared: One of his eyes was swollen yellow and purple, there were gouge marks on his face, and his general air of unkemptness suggested that he had been living rough.†   (source)
  • She had long, dark hair that looked unkempt and straggly in the picture, though he had seen it sleek, thick and shining.†   (source)
  • 'Harry, dear, are you sure you're all right?' said Mrs Weasley in a worried voice, as they walked around the unkempt patch of grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place.†   (source)
  • His hair was even more unkempt than usual and his clothing wrinkled, so Jeremy figured he must have risen only a few minutes earlier.†   (source)
  • Unkempt, unshaven, coarse of speech.†   (source)
  • He was a big, burly brute with pig eyes, a massive gut, and an unkempt black beard that reminded her of Robert.†   (source)
  • It all looked very raw and unkempt.†   (source)
  • Despite the majesty of cold marble and the figure's scholarly robes, the subject had a feral, unkempt appearance.†   (source)
  • Even in the dim light of the blue lamp, I could see that his skin was dyed to a deep brown by the sun, and that his silky black hair now fell unkempt past his chin.†   (source)
  • He had aged and seemed unkempt.†   (source)
  • The legless Chernak was close to panic, his ravaged face chalk white, his unkempt gray hair matted about his neck and forehead "What do you want from me?" he asked.†   (source)
  • To Van Riper, it seemed clearer and clearer that these "overweight, unkempt, long-haired" guys and the Marine Corps brass were fundamentally engaged in the same business—the only difference being that one group bet on money and the other bet on lives.†   (source)
  • The armory's huge dirt parking area was to the right of the long building; a single row of unkempt shrubbery fronted the entrance lawn, in the center of which stood a tall white pole, the Soviet flag hanging limp in the breezeless morning air.†   (source)
  • Five older men with unkempt beards and damp brown woolen topis cocked on their heads entered and gripped Mortenson's hand enthusiastically before taking their places on the camping pads.†   (source)
  • Here he is, hungry, thirsty, jet-lagged, unkempt, being held prisoner, sort of, cuffed around in a basement cell.†   (source)
  • Except for an isolated intrusion of an unkempt stoop or an ill-conceived whitewashed facade, they could be identical blocks.†   (source)
  • She walked barefoot in the room, with the shawl over her shoulders and her hair unkempt, hovering over the little kerosene stove she kept perched on the single table that served as her dining-room table, her desk, and her kitchen table.†   (source)
  • Clinging to one of the greasy rocks and blending almost perfectly with it was a large, unkempt, and exceedingly soiled bird who looked more like a dirty floor mop than anything else.†   (source)
  • Lavon was a diminutive figure, with a head of wispy unkempt hair and a face that was entirely forgettable.†   (source)
  • Lucien was sixty-three but an old man, his face grizzled and whiskered gray to match his long unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • The veneer of sophistication and the pursuit of security were valued over a smoldering, wandering first-rate mind of unsure direction, especially a mind inside a head of unkempt hair and a body dressed in clothes that were cheap imitations of J. Press and Brooks Brothers, which appeared even worse because his bank account precluded any additional expenses for alterations and few discount stores carried his size.†   (source)
  • The waiting was intolerable, made worse by a stern Hassid glaring at him, fingering coins in one hand, a roll in another, and crumbs in his stringy, unkempt beard.†   (source)
  • It was a tiny plot, unkempt and overgrown, and one would not even know that anyone lived there, except for the guard who stood in front.†   (source)
  • Randy tucked the bottle under his arm and walked toward the bandstand, an octagon-shaped wooden structure, its platform elevated three feet above what had once been turf smooth as a gold green, now unkempt, infiltrated with weeds and booby-trapped with sandspurs.†   (source)
  • He said, "I'm busy greeting my friends," and he nodded to Discourtesy and Ugliness and Unfilial Conduct and Unkempt Fingernails.†   (source)
  • The only room visible in the KELLER house is ANNIE'S, where by lamplight ANNIE in a shawl is at a desk writing a letter; at her bureau HELEN in her customary unkempt state is tucking her doll in the bottom drawer as a cradle, the contents of which she has dumped out, creating as usual a fine disorder.†   (source)
  • The hair lay rough and unkempt and seemed to have lost all of its old luster.†   (source)
  • But it looked forlorn and unkempt under the gray sky.†   (source)
  • But he did not mean to go unkempt—the thought of going for repairs filled him with weary horror.†   (source)
  • Rose of Sharon, unkempt and sleepy-eyed, crawled out of the tent.†   (source)
  • The state militia who had gone out so short a time before, resplendent in new uniforms, could hardly be distinguished from the seasoned troops, so dirty and unkempt were they.†   (source)
  • She looked offensively unkempt, with studied slovenliness as careful as grooming—and for the same purpose.†   (source)
  • And all the hideous fears that stamp their faces in the daytime are transformed in the fiery, dusty nightfall into a sort of hectic exaltation, an unkempt freedom fevering their blood.†   (source)
  • The meeting was not very propitious, for I was still unkempt and uncombed after my night out, and I had not shaved.†   (source)
  • Inside the gate what was once a park now spread, unkempt, in shaggy desolation, with an air dreamy remote and aghast like the unshaven face of a man just waking from ether, up to a huge house where a young girl waited in a wedding dress made from stolen scraps, the house partaking too of that air of scaling desolation, not having suffered from invasion but a shell marooned and forgotten in a backwater of catastrophe—a skeleton giving of itself in slow driblets of furniture and carpet,…†   (source)
  • By the time the constable's recital was over, we had arrived at Leigh House, a big, desolate house surrounded by an unkempt, weed-ridden garden.†   (source)
  • He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in the corners of his mouth and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent, now unkempt; worst of all, there was a wariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him.†   (source)
  • The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done, but as I advanced I was aware that a change had come upon it; it was narrow and unkempt, not the drive that we had known.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Ben, loping along the streets of the town, met him, hot, tired, dirty, wearing his loaded canvas bag, scowled fiercely at him, upbraided him for his unkempt appearance, and took him into a lunch-room for something to eat— rich foaming milk, fat steaming kidney-beans, thick apple-pie.†   (source)
  • The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter reading a newspaper.†   (source)
  • And then in the doorway stood the tall, lean, somewhat stooped man, with swarthy face and unkempt dark hair and sad eyes under black brows, and with a Phi Beta Kappa key slung across his untidy blue serge.†   (source)
  • All that lies beneath the colleges down there, I said; but this college, where we are now sitting, what lies beneath its gallant red brick and the wild unkempt grasses of the garden?†   (source)
  • He was unkempt; he dropped things on his coat; he had the tiresomeness of an old man with nothing in the world to do; and she turned him out of the room.†   (source)
  • That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.†   (source)
  • They faced one another on the two gaunt horses, two men, young, not yet in the world, not yet breathed over long enough, to be old but with old eyes, with unkempt hair and faces gaunt and weathered as if cast by some spartan and even niggard hand from bronze, in worn and patched gray weathered now to the color of dead leaves, the one with the tarnished braid of an officer, the other plain of cuff, the pistol lying yet across the saddle bow unaimed, the two faces calm, the voices not…†   (source)
  • He was thirty-nine years old then, short, stocky, unkempt; he worked like a dog, missed his sleep and meals, drank seldom but then brutally, called his clients unprintable names, laughed at hatred and fanned it deliberately, behaved like a feudal lord and a longshoreman, and lived in a passionate tension that stung men in any room he entered, a fire neither they nor he could endure much longer.†   (source)
  • She was in love with a rather tall, somewhat gangly, slightly stooped youth of twenty-one, with a bony horse face, a big almost askew hook of a nose, dark, unkempt hair, dark eyes (not burning and deep like the eyes of Cass Mastern, but frequently vague or veiled, bloodshot in the mornings, brightening only with excitement), big hands that worked and twisted slowly on his lap, plucking at each other, and twisted big feet that were inclined to shamble—a youth not beautiful, not…†   (source)
  • Thus, unclean, unkempt, clothed in rags and hunger and madness, he saw himself victorious, heroic and beautiful.†   (source)
  • He sat slouched in the saddle, a thick, rough-looking man with an unkempt black beard straggling over his unbuttoned blue jacket.†   (source)
  • The lawn was wide and green with thick clover and bordering it was a straggling, unkempt privet hedge, interlaced with sweet-smelling honeysuckle vines.†   (source)
  • "T'other" was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face.†   (source)
  • They were ragged, unkempt, barearmed and bare-legged, every last one of them with back bent.†   (source)
  • The unkempt path from the road below, which slowly he ascended!†   (source)
  • His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its gruesome quality.†   (source)
  • She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious.†   (source)
  • Yonder is another grove, with unkempt lawn, great magnolias, and grass-grown paths.†   (source)
  • He was a particularly unkempt person with the look of a fixed idea in his eye.†   (source)
  • Ragged, unkempt rebels were everywhere, and the whole square was littered with tents, packs, wagons, arms.†   (source)
  • I liked better some American detective stories which were traversed from time to time by unkempt fierce and beautiful girls.†   (source)
  • He was an unkempt and gaunt giant, yet how steadfast and reliable, how grimly strong to inspire hope!†   (source)
  • He was now a man of thirty-two, tall and lean, but with the same wild and unkempt look they remembered on him as a boy.†   (source)
  • But this bearded, longhaired, unkempt man, who wore ragged clothes patched with pieces of skin, and boots that showed bare legs and feet—this dusty, dark, and wild rider could not possibly be Venters.†   (source)
  • Unkempt, grizzled beard.†   (source)
  • More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.†   (source)
  • Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.†   (source)
  • Softened neither by snow nor by waving boughs the houses squatted and scowled, revealed in their unkempt harshness.†   (source)
  • There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and unkempt, staring out at me.†   (source)
  • He was unkempt, uncombed, and clad in the same old ruin of rags that had made him picturesque in the days when he was free and happy.†   (source)
  • There were sturdy workmen thrusting their way along, wretched, unkempt men, clothed like clerks or shopmen, struggling spasmodically; a wounded soldier my brother noticed, men dressed in the clothes of railway porters, one wretched creature in a nightshirt with a coat thrown over it.†   (source)
  • He was a short man, stout from excessive beer drinking, with a heavy moustache and long, unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches, striding on cautiously to come together in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • The saviour, the former hero, was flying like a mangy, unkempt sheep-dog at his lackey, and the lackey was jeering at him!†   (source)
  • A little old man with unkempt beard was doing something bent down over some iron, muttering meaningless French words, and she, as she always did in this nightmare (it was what made the horror of it), felt that this peasant was taking no notice of her, but was doing something horrible with the iron— over her.†   (source)
  • His head, huge and unshapely as a buffalo's, was half hidden in the thick and tangled growth of his unkempt hair.†   (source)
  • Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling; men of a thousand ideas, and unkempt heads, like those hens which are made to take charge of a hundred chickens, all in pursuit of one bug, a score of them lost in every morning's dew—and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; men of ideas instead of legs, a sort of intellectual centipede that made you crawl all over.†   (source)
  • 'That unkempt creature?'†   (source)
  • Their hair is long, unkempt, and strangely white; they make us shrink and shudder with an indefinable repulsion, though the effect may be from an illusory glozing of the light glimmering dismally through the unhealthy murk; or they may be enduring the tortures of hunger and thirst, not having had to eat or drink since their servant, the convict, was taken away—that is, since yesterday.†   (source)
  • Razumihin was sitting in a ragged dressing-gown, with slippers on his bare feet, unkempt, unshaven and unwashed.†   (source)
  • Then with the same deliberation he scrutinised the uncouth, unkempt figure and unshaven face of Razumihin, who looked him boldly and inquiringly in the face without rising from his seat.†   (source)
  • He looked me over disapprovingly, taking in every detail of my waterlogged costume, unkempt hair, and generally disheveled appearance.†   (source)
  • An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.†   (source)
  • He was standing up straight enough now; dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his scalp.†   (source)
  • "Thou wilt look well," said Don Quixote, "but thou must shave thy beard often, for thou hast it so thick and rough and unkempt, that if thou dost not shave it every second day at least, they will see what thou art at the distance of a musket shot."†   (source)
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