The dishevelment is the result of spending a long period in deep contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend: Songs with handclaps ? the results] Reference
She took in their flushed expressions, their dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
No sweat pants, no t-shirts, no dishevelment on the street. From Wordnik.com. [Francois Truffaut's Pocket Money] Reference
Her dishevelment and the splatters of blood looked obscene. From Wordnik.com. [Black Magic] Reference
Go back to the academia-chic, leftish long haired dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [New Liberals Willing To Fight Election Against Old Liberal Policy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Her dishevelment and her bruises were wiped away, enhancing her posture. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
India walked on, trying to project an air of dignity in spite of her dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
"Mr. Queen?" asked a voice like temple bells, eyeing the Queen dishevelment doubtfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
Tom, watching her as she went laughing away, looking all the prettier for her dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference
He glanced at me, scowl changing to a look of approval as he took in my state of dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
A tiny part of Wintrow's mind noted that he had never seen Kennit in such a state of dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
This enraged her, as the dishevelment of a carefully arranged coiffure always enrages a fashionable woman. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
In spite of his dishevelment, one would never guess she had roused him from a drunken stupor a short while ago. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
The garden was always in the same state of dishevelment when we would arrive after the fifteen hour drive from Texas. From Wordnik.com. [Bloom Day At The Semi Garden « Fairegarden] Reference
She half sat up, a frail, exhausted little figure, whose grace was strangely appealing through all her sandy dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
The pilots were tired of this kind of flying, and the ships suffered the mechanical equivalent of lassi'tude and dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Chickenhawk]
He still wore the clothes in which he had slept, but in his intellectual dishevelment he had little concern for his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Bishop remembered, as she wrote to Lowell, "your dishevelment, your lovely curly hair, and how we talked about a Picasso show.". From Wordnik.com. [A Friendship in Letters] Reference
Even in the half-light, I could see smudges under her eyes and a look of grimy dishevelment, foreign to her tidy, competent self. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
The rest of his body was in similar dishevelment; his dust-soiled blue robes hung in shredded disarray about his stick-like body. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
All the dishevelment, the defiance and anger were gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side of the Door] Reference
Here Diana, noting my battered dishevelment, scowled at Jessamy adorably. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
His hair was long and shaggy, and fell in shining dishevelment upon his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
Her hair and garments stuck out from her in wild dishevelment, but she was not dirty. From Wordnik.com. [Post Haste] Reference
At the sound of footsteps he sat up, suddenly very much aware of his unheroic dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
It's high school hop-pop, all sweet and innocent, roughed up and shambling towards dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Lynch, a torch in her hand, her hair in maenadic dishevelment, leading on a mob to set fire to a town. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
Her rapture was mated to such courteous restraint that dinginess and dishevelment were easily overlooked. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference
No detail of my appearance escaped him -- my reddened eyelids, my pallor, my nervousness, my dishevelment. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
She sprang back prettier than he had ever seen her in the dishevelment from where his embrace had dragged at her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
It is impossible to believe that there is no remedy for its unevenness and dishevelment, or that the remedy is a secret. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Thoughts] Reference
But he looked so happy and wide awake, in spite of his dishevelment, that Rose gave an approving nod and said behind her fan. From Wordnik.com. [Rose in Bloom] Reference
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