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messy (untidy or disordered) — especially of a person's clothes and hair
- For a few minutes, while you smooth your hair — which is somewhat dishevelled; and bathe your face — which looks feverish?Chapter 27 (26% in)
- In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.Chapter 25 (90% in)
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