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  • Dr. Amani, a soft-spoken man with a crooked mustache and a mane of gray hair, told us he had reviewed the CAT scan results and that he would have to perform a procedure called a bronchoscopy to get a piece of the lung mass for pathology.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in her drawings, Julia gives Bob wings or a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • He chased bands of horses, darting into the swirling herds and trying in vain to snatch a fistful of mane and swing aboard.†   (source)
  • The same thing had happened to his grandfather, yet his father was edging up on seventy with a jet black mane.†   (source)
  • They had long black tails and dark flowing manes and he had watched them galloping in the moonlight across the flat dusty plain and then for three nights in a row he had dreamed of them.†   (source)
  • She reached into her mane of blue hair and plucked out a strand, then twirled it around her finger.†   (source)
  • She stands out, with her flowing blond mane.†   (source)
  • The zebra's mane was matted with chewing gum, like somebody had been spitting on it in their spare time.†   (source)
  • Somewhere right in the middle, Long Hair stopped and turned to face them, his odd white mane flopping.†   (source)
  • An imposing man, he had a mane of snowy white hair and a handsome, craggy face.†   (source)
  • Her hair had darkened and grown out to a thick, glossy mane.†   (source)
  • She was extremely quick: One moment she was bursting through the door, golden-blond hair flying out behind her like a horse's mane, and the next she was standing right beside them.†   (source)
  • "Hope we're not in the lane," said Kabuo, peering up at the Susan Mane's mast.†   (source)
  • She was grey as the winter sea, with a mane like silver smoke.†   (source)
  • The judge-a big man with a mane of white hair who sort of scared Zoe-shook his head.†   (source)
  • Spencer noticed that he might actually have a chance at being cute if he cut off that lion's mane.†   (source)
  • Down past the fisheye on the hall wall, I can see my white shape, of tented body, hair down my back like a mane, my eyes gleaming.†   (source)
  • Out the windows I saw the spires of Lionsgate Bridge, the dawn's light seeping over their peaks and making the lions' golden manes gleam.†   (source)
  • Cadoc swayed and dug his hooves into the ground, mane snapping in the air.†   (source)
  • Banners of the white-maned man hung listlessly from lamp poles, posters curled up in the heat.†   (source)
  • His mane was woven in threads lacquered with a beautiful reddish tint.†   (source)
  • She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils.†   (source)
  • HALLORANN ARRIVES Larry Durkin was a tall and skinny man with a morose face overtopped with a luxuriant mane of red hair.†   (source)
  • Hadley runs over to him, his shape changing from a monkey to something larger, something bearlike with a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • It held a bundle of dried violets tied with a white ribbon, a toy horse that had lost most of its string mane, and a lock of curling blond hair.†   (source)
  • He was large and wolf-like, with a thick gray mane and a tail that curled over his back.†   (source)
  • For three days we were creeping down the east coast of Equus over an irregular coastline called the Mane.†   (source)
  • He touched his lush blond mane.†   (source)
  • The carriage rolled away, Ruth sitting up straight, with a big grin, the golden horses tossing their manes, hooves flashing in the sunshine.†   (source)
  • But when the man rolls past him, this great shroud moves and flutters and Hiro sees that it is just his hair, a thick mane of black hair tossed back over his shoulders, trailing down his back almost to his waist.†   (source)
  • She also did various hair products, swirling her white mane into a cow pie on top of her head, "For today's new look of luxury!"†   (source)
  • She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.†   (source)
  • His skin was tanned by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his jaws were of iron, and he wore a sad smile.†   (source)
  • She stands with her legs apart, breathing shallowly, tossing her blond frosted mane like a nervous pony.†   (source)
  • I pawed the ground with my right foot and tossed my head as though I had a mane.†   (source)
  • He wore a huge mustache and his hair flowed like a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • All the lines of his body were vertical and swept upward, from his sharp aquiline nose and pointed eyebrows to his high forehead, which was crowned with a lion's mane of hair that he combed straight back.†   (source)
  • The boy's eyes swiveled wildly, fixed upon the manes mouth.†   (source)
  • He was short and thick around the middle, with a wild mane of white hair and huge black plastic-rimmed glasses.†   (source)
  • I would travel around my world on a horse the color of fire with a mane of snow.†   (source)
  • There were two or three stampeding stallions, manes flaring, next to stormy seashores in her bedroom.†   (source)
  • I patted his back and ran my fingers through his tangled mane.†   (source)
  • I chewed my lip as I grabbed a curry brush and a mane comb.†   (source)
  • "No nose is good nose," thundered the MANE once again as he collapsed in another fit of hysterics and clutched his sides.†   (source)
  • He takes his hand off mine, then weaves his fingers through his black mane, strands falling loosely across his forehead.†   (source)
  • His white turban and the monkey-mane fly-swish in his hand made him stand out.†   (source)
  • It was Nancy's Babe, the obedient old dappled mare with flaxen mane and dark-purple eyes like magnificent pansy blossoms.†   (source)
  • There were half a dozen of them breaking through a pole corral and their manes were long and blowing and their eyes wild.†   (source)
  • She gripped the horse's mane so tightly the horsehairs cut into her hands.†   (source)
  • She'd taken a long, appraising look at me, with my freckled skin and unruly mane of red hair, my sullen face, and decided that a proper finishing school was what was needed if I was ever to make a decent marriage.†   (source)
  • In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse's mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows.†   (source)
  • Something she had tons of practice with, from having groomed horses whose manes she braided for competition.†   (source)
  • I told him of the lion that had carried away small children and how the lion had been hunted down and a mask made of his mane and a great ngoma held to both celebrate and mourn his death.†   (source)
  • A frown, an improbable mane, and a somber voice intoningEs muss sein!†   (source)
  • I looked up in time to see her disappear around the landing above us, that endless mane of hair trailing behind her like a blurred afterimage.†   (source)
  • She glowed with health and radiated beauty; tall, slim, with a glossy black mane, tawny brown skin, a pointed chin, and huge dark eyes, she was always laughing, loudly.†   (source)
  • But she stayed on, wrapping a fist into Pilgrim's silky mane as he slid down the slope beneath her.†   (source)
  • The lamplight paints his thick mane of white hair gold, and the way he towers over everyone else, the way he nods at those entering his home, makes me imagine a falcon watching the world from an updraft.†   (source)
  • I wrapped my arms around her protectively and reached forward to grasp the horse's mane.†   (source)
  • Understandably the boys of my age and social group were captivated by the yellow —or light-brown-skinned girls, with hairy legs and smooth little lips, and whose hair "hung down like horses' manes."†   (source)
  • A wild mane of black hair and a long braided beard heightened the dramatic effect.†   (source)
  • She stroked Demon's mane.†   (source)
  • I looked down at the coarse mane of the horse ....Dear Father.†   (source)
  • 'English history!' roared the silver-maned senior Senator from his state indignantly.†   (source)
  • He shut his eyes and clung to the horse's mane.†   (source)
  • You had to hold on to the horse's mane...so you wouldn't fall off.†   (source)
  • She cups the muzzle of one of the white horses, a striking Arabian with a silver mane and tail.†   (source)
  • He ran his hand along the lion's mane, and the beast fell to its belly.†   (source)
  • An immense golden creature, mane flowing to and fro with the breeze, was sitting just inside the treeline about thirty feet away.†   (source)
  • His thin neck was thrust forward several inches in front of his vested chest, his long dark hair a flowing mane parallel to the pavement.†   (source)
  • Or when she was trying to untangle Nudge's mane of hair.†   (source)
  • Manes grew tall into feathers that shone-became light rays.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were still closed, but her right hand brushed across his mane of dark hair.†   (source)
  • A lion's mane around her face.†   (source)
  • A bit of hair from your pretty mane, and for these gifts, I praise your name.†   (source)
  • She lifted a hand, skimming it through that glorious tumbled mane of russet hair as the bed's floating motion rocked her.†   (source)
  • he didn't spend an extra day (some wizards would spend a week) checking the runes and symbols or bother to test the circle on a lesser entity, such as a mane.†   (source)
  • But my mental picture of little Carmen included this mane of thick, wavy hair.†   (source)
  • He had a hawklike nose and wore his thick mane of yellow hair tied behind his head.†   (source)
  • Like the lion of Venice, it would have a mane stiff with sun and dust.†   (source)
  • But here a dozen listeners sat enthralled as a stocky man with a mane of white hair and a reverberant voice spun a ghost story.†   (source)
  • The old man's helper rode a black pony, hunching low over its neck with his face in the mane.†   (source)
  • He likes the horse with the black mane and tail, but the stirrups don't feel right.†   (source)
  • Harrison bent onto the mane of the horse and wept into his bloody hands.†   (source)
  • He found the dark horse in the night and stood caressing the warm skin, thick bristly mane, feeding sugar, talking.†   (source)
  • Then Lou rose, went over to Sue, gripped the horse's brushy mane, climbed up, and then helped Oz on board.†   (source)
  • "I know," Wathaet said, lifting his mane in a shrug.†   (source)
  • They huddled out the night together, until Helen's hair had straightened like Theresa's; Janis's likewise was turning into a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • Her hair was unwashed and heavy and unsweetly redolent but to me it was a perfect mane.†   (source)
  • (He looks off again, into the distance) Golden Dancer had a bright red mane, blue eyes, and she was gold all over, with purple spots†   (source)
  • He tousled her mane affectionately, and she gave a resigned whimper and curled herself at his feet.†   (source)
  • Jumper was a dun mule with a narrow black stripe running along his backbone between his mane and tail.†   (source)
  • There was a red bow tied halfway up the buggy whip and red ribbons were braided into the horses' manes and tails.†   (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)
  • Julian smiled at us and waved, and Morgenstern tossed his head and his magnifleent mane rippled in the wind, like a flag.†   (source)
  • A gray mane covered his head.†   (source)
  • Almost at the same moment, and borne, as it were, on this wave of sound along the narrow corridor that formed as the crowd divided, the heads and manes of horses, and their saber-swinging riders, rode by swiftly and silently.†   (source)
  • The mysterious smile of the old man who sold peanuts by the church gate returned to her; his face seemed for a moment to rest upon the iron door of the stove, set into the lion's mane.†   (source)
  • Jody reached up a hand and took hold of Nellie's mane.   (source)
    mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse
  • By daylight Kotick's mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.   (source)
    mane = ring of long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders
  • Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog teeth.   (source)
    mane = long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders
  • This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.   (source)
    mane = ring of long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders
  • I figured he'd rather have his mane braided like My Little Pony than be back here again.†   (source)
  • The door opened and a long mane of red hair appeared.†   (source)
  • He shook his mane like he was having a sugar seizure.†   (source)
  • But Annabeth leaped onto the monster's back and drove her knife into his mane.†   (source)
  • There was no mistaking his mane of silver hair and that tailored blue business suit.†   (source)
  • The animal tossed his mane and pawed at the ground.†   (source)
  • He had a great reach to his front legs and a thick mane and straight back.†   (source)
  • The long mane of auburn hair had not changed.†   (source)
  • The long mane of grizzled gray hair was withdrawing into the scalp and turning the color of straw.†   (source)
  • With a sinking feeling, he thought he saw a mane of bushy brown hair whip-ping out of sight.†   (source)
  • The horse spirit shook its mane, evidently pleased to be recognized.†   (source)
  • A shaggy mane surrounded its angular face; its ears were tipped with black tufts.†   (source)
  • He ran his fingers through his shaggy mane of auburn hair, looking unhappy.†   (source)
  • With a toss of his mane, the war-horse jumped forward, twirled around, and reared.†   (source)
  • She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame.†   (source)
  • The werecat shook his rough mane and yawned languorously, displaying his long fangs.†   (source)
  • I stroke Freya's soft mane, and she allows it.†   (source)
  • That afternoon, she'd taken out a tan roan stallion with a gorgeous black mane.†   (source)
  • She appeared suddenly upon a dune, mounted on a golden sand steed with a mane like fine white silk.†   (source)
  • His mane afire, he had reared up on his hind legs, blind with pain, lashing out with his hooves.†   (source)
  • I see a mane of heavy black hair come loose, and my heart seizes—it's Laia.†   (source)
  • Soon, he let me pet his mane and came when I whistled although no food was in sight.†   (source)
  • The horse was a cat-stepping blue roan with a black mane and tail.†   (source)
  • Its head was ringed with a mane of spiky white fins.†   (source)
  • Mere stubble, against that mane of yours, coz.†   (source)
  • In the dim light, Snowfire's mane and hide gleamed like silver.†   (source)
  • An Appaloosa was cantering, tossing its mane and bucking wildly as though it had gone mad.†   (source)
  • I clutched at the mane with every ounce of strength I could find left within my exhausted body.†   (source)
  • She tossed her mane of stiff white bangs.†   (source)
  • The mane that ran down his back stood up like a startled cat.†   (source)
  • Then the Unicorn stamped the ground with his hoof, and shook his mane, and spoke.†   (source)
  • Its streaming mane kindled, and blazed behind it.†   (source)
  • But then Annie were born on a cool spring evening with a full mane'a black hair.†   (source)
  • All that remained from before was his leonine white mane and his heavy silver cane.†   (source)
  • Flying truly now, the wind whipping her hair, his mane.†   (source)
  • The actor clings precariously to the horse's mane, desperate not to fall off.†   (source)
  • His mane was matted with nasty bits of dead fish and river moss.†   (source)
  • The living and strokable gold of Aslan's mane outshone them all.†   (source)
  • He flattened his back, dropped his chin into Seabiscuit's mane, and flew toward the turn.†   (source)
  • It was plump, well-fed, and all white except for a reddish brown mane.†   (source)
  • Her hair had been so beautiful as she fell, the long golden mane swinging up and out.†   (source)
  • The Dornish leader forked a stallion black as sin with a mane and tail the color of fire.†   (source)
  • It threatens to turn my hair into a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • He unsaddled his horse, removed her bit and bridle, and ran his fingers through her shaggy mane.†   (source)
  • The huge, barbaric head and tangled mane of black hair swiveled at Max.†   (source)
  • It passed by them so close that they could have touched its mane.†   (source)
  • No minor mane or midge, Drizzt knew at once, but a major demon.†   (source)
  • Clutching her mane, Bobby rubbed his cheek along Babe's neck-something Nancy used to do.†   (source)
  • She was gripping the mane so tightly it took an act of will to turn her hands loose.†   (source)
  • And then he let him do the same on the other side and even feel his mane.†   (source)
  • His hide was deep brown with a tan mane and an irregular tan star on his chest.†   (source)
  • Further ahead, I spot a mane of white hair, a powerful body.†   (source)
  • Without her scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes, she looked fifteen.†   (source)
  • Kartik strokes her mane and she softens under his touch, nuzzling him with her nose.†   (source)
  • Not of evil sorcerers and shadows, she thought as she brushed Spud's mane.†   (source)
  • Then, tossing his mane, he cried out one last time, then swerved toward the gap and was gone.†   (source)
  • Despite her grip on the mane, she almost slid off several times.†   (source)
  • It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane.†   (source)
  • Murtagh was bareheaded, and his long black hair billowed behind him like a sleek mane.†   (source)
  • But there must have been magic in his mane.†   (source)
  • Once again she grasped Alastar's mane, lowered herself to the ground.†   (source)
  • His coat was matted and his mane and tail filthy and tangled and Grace longed to get a brush on him.†   (source)
  • Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face.†   (source)
  • She barely had the strength to get back on the horse; she had to claw her way up using the mane.†   (source)
  • She slipped from side to side and had to cling to the horse's mane to stay on.†   (source)
  • Grasping the mane, Sorcha pulled herself onto the horse.†   (source)
  • Yeah, she thought, we're ready, you and I. She gripped his mane, hurled herself into the saddle.†   (source)
  • When a horse died or had to be killed, Cholo always saved its mane and tail for his ropes.†   (source)
  • Clear eyes, clean, glossy coat, well-brushed mane, and a look of the easygoer about him, she noted.†   (source)
  • Iona moved over to run a hand down his black mane.†   (source)
  • She'd braid charms into his mane, she decided.†   (source)
  • Her calm remained as she brushed even the threat of tangles out of his mane, his tail.†   (source)
  • He was short with a remarkable mane of gray hair and a handsome, weather-beaten face.†   (source)
  • He paused and went on in a quicker voice, "Aslan's mane!" he exclaimed.†   (source)
  • A mane of cedar trees tossing over the top.†   (source)
  • Lay your hands on my mane so that I can feel you are there and let us walk like that.†   (source)
  • The smoke drifted across the sky looking like a gigantic horse's mane blowing in the wind.†   (source)
  • Mane on my legs, on my flanks, like whips!†   (source)
  • At least, it's not like a horse's mane, you know, it's more like a judge's wig.†   (source)
  • I don't understand—" But there was no time to discuss the matter; a second later, Mr. Weasley had appeared out of thin air at the gate, accompanied by Rufus Scrimgeour, instantly recognizable by his mane of grizzled hair.†   (source)
  • He lowered his hood, shook out a long mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, then began to walk up toward the teachers' table.†   (source)
  • He had a light wagon with one horse — I found out later that his name was Charley, for Charley Horse; he was a bay gelding and very handsome, with such a beautiful mane and tail and large brown eyes, and I loved him dearly at first sight.†   (source)
  • She dropped her shawl, revealing a mane of curly red hair and a freckled face that didn't go with the seriousness of the cabin or the black shawl at all.†   (source)
  • This one bore die headline: SCRIMGEOUR SUCCEEDS FUDGE Most of this front page was taken up with a large black-and-white picture of a man with a lionlike mane of thick hair and a rather ravaged face.†   (source)
  • Inside are old dolls, the pink pony that came with a mane I could brush, the picture books, all the Happy Birthday and Valentine's cards I had made my parents in elementary school with kidney beans and glitter and little sparkling stars.†   (source)
  • I spit mane fur out of my mouth.†   (source)
  • When they informed him that he had a new daughter, Nana said, Jalil had shrugged, kept brushing his horse's mane, and stayed in Takht-e-Safar another two weeks.†   (source)
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