With soft-haired animals the hair gets harder with good feeding, and with hard-haired or bristly animals it gets softer and scantier from the same cause. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
The big bed had been pushed back against the wall and a cover thrown over it that brushed the floor all around looked like soft-haired fur except that it was a pale blue-green and sparkled as if every hair were tipped with invisible crystals. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Near by a soft-haired lamb stood gazing along the bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Gardener] Reference
Two heads were all he could see, -- Lloyd's, soft-haired and golden. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel] Reference
Buffeted wastrel of a thousand casual amours, soft-haired, confiding, ungainly, he was rich in understanding if not in beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Bunker Bean] Reference
Two heads were all he could see, – Lloyd's, soft-haired and golden, May Lilly's, covered with dozens of tightly braided little black tails. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel] Reference
"You shall marry me before then," I answered, and kissed her again and put my hands up to her soft-haired head to pull it down to my breast and dragged loose some of its soft coils. From Wordnik.com. [Five Nights] Reference
A soft-haired, quiet-eyed little girl, a book open upon her knee, and at each side, nestling in beside her, a cherub-faced dot of a boy, listening to the story she was reading aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodie] Reference
And an emotion that was almost jealousy swept him at the thought of the fellow's arms round his soft-haired, dark-eyed daughter -- that pretty, willowy creature, so like in face and limb to her whom he had loved so desperately. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
London was so utterly its obverse, as that of this dark, soft-haired woman, delicate, passive, and tremulous with pleasure at sight of the only person in the world from whom she felt she might learn of Miltoun, without losing her self-respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
(soft-haired), the centurion of "Augustus 'band," to whose charge St. Paul was delivered when he was sent prisoner from. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
And rest thy soft-haired head upon my quilt. From Wordnik.com. [India's Love Lyrics] Reference
Julius, Latin, soft-haired. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
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