Bears become even more hirsute during the fall and winter than they are during the summer. From LearnThat.org.
Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Aurora] Reference
They dubbed their hirsute trio the Full Silkwood, after a typically audacious punch line from the show. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I loved that "hirsute" was used; I always remember that one by thinking it is someone saying "hair suit" with a really thick accent.; p. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference
At first the locals didn't welcome the hirsute newcomers. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans] Reference
The hirsute and uncombed genius of the street had vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
"Because I was never vaccinated," replied the hirsute hero. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
From what I could tell, they are also a rather hirsute subgroup. From Wordnik.com. [A Gay Old Time] Reference
His right hand, thick and darkly hirsute, hung between his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
He pulled up a chair and straddled it backward, folding his hirsute arms over it. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
The fruit is a glabrous or hirsute dehiscent capsule 5-8 mm in diameter containing. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 30] Reference
"A very hirsute hallucination," he commented, examining several thick, coarse hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
Under close scrutiny the falsity of his hirsute adornment was easily detected, of course. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
"No!" he cried, his high plaintive voice issuing incongruously from his large hirsute face. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Would you could have heard that vesper hymn stealing hirsute through the mellow evening-air!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Their bronzed faces and thick necks were hirsute, as if overgrown with moss, tangled or crispy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
A challenging Kaiser William mustache, maybe, or perchance a Herr Most style of hirsute trimmings. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
There were briers, mezcal plants, and many varieties of cactus; all luxuriant, hirsute, and thorny. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Thus was modern Sikhism born -- and with it the distinctive appearance of turbaned and hirsute Sikh males. From Wordnik.com. [Sikhs Beyond Separatism] Reference
Economists groaned when the hirsute former union man took office in 2003, but soon they were gasping instead. From Wordnik.com. [18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] Reference
For every hirsute Southerner whose locks turn gray without dropping off, heavens, what a regiment of bald heads!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I advised one particularly hirsute chap to lower his shaving brush into the sea to-morrow at the end of a string. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
The hirsute director went as far as to wish GM would just expire, but I found that more than a little mean-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [GM Gets Serious About Recycling] Reference
The documentary dealt specifically with Harris tweed, a unique hirsute cloth made in Scotland's Outer Hebrides Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Cut From Woven Cloth] Reference
He needed a reason to shave the beard, and he wasn't about to yield to the widespread media ridiculing of his hirsute look. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Political Spouses] Reference
German type of vanity which runs to hair, yet he could not prevent people from commenting on his extraordinary hirsute adornment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
And the thing Doug recalled most vividly about his fasting experience, aside from the hirsute tongue, was that he hadn't craved food. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
There she encounters Lyman (Jeff Daniels), a hirsute ex-GI who shuns people and speaks at only slightly greater length than the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Seeking Daddy] Reference
Mr. Grebby, with a sparse frill of grey hair growing right round his face, his chin and long upper lip guiltless of hirsute appendages. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He was different from the other singer-songwriters of the day, who tended to present themselves as ragged outlaws or hirsute nature boys. From Wordnik.com. [Songs in the Key of Lacerating] Reference
Before they put a man on the moon, before the Beatles got really hirsute, before Martin Luther King was assassinated, Grandad Lewis died. From Wordnik.com. [The power of the holiday photo] Reference
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