His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Excellency shook his majestic peruke, and echoed the lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
If he who wears a peruke is more to be feared than he who wears none?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Ned Gowan's grey peruke inclined itself in the most precise of formal bows. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
‘Nothing more,’ said Doctor Grumball, shaking his large academical peruke. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
If he who wears spectacles is not more to be feared than he who wears a peruke?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
I was always afraid of him; in a long peruke, and dark red velvet coat, facing the hall-door. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
First of all, Jon Stewart abandons his comic genius to put on metaphorical judicial robes and a peruke. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Menaker: Discomfort Zone] Reference
The complexion of a murderer in a band-box; consisting of a large piece of burnt cork, and a coal-black peruke. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
Hampstead Road, in the evening, he overtook a dapper fellow, who was formerly a peruke-maker but now a gamester. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
With this he came up to London and went to live as a journeyman with an eminent peruke-maker at the Court end of the town. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
In spite of the exertions of the day, his neat coat showed no signs of dust, and his old-fashioned peruke sat squarely on his head. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Richard Nichols was a man in the middle age of life, of a grave and civil deportment, of good character, and who was a barber and peruke-maker. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
But on his mother's marrying another husband, Sefton, who had been bred a barber and peruke-maker, finding things not to go to his mind, came up to London. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Their manes had been coloured a deep blue; their hoofs were wrapped in coverings of woven grass, and the hair between their ears was puffed out like a peruke. From Wordnik.com. [Herodias] Reference
His father was a peruke-maker in Holborn, and not in so bad circumstances but that he could have afforded him a tolerable education, if he had not been snatched away by death. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
And the little monkey in the flowing white peruke took direction. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
Fevergrure, the peruke-maker at the sign of the Black Wigg, lost a. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
"Why does he not wear a peruke like my Lord Mohun?" asked Miss Beatrix. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference
'Nothing more,' said Doctor Grumball, shaking his large academical peruke. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
The peruke-maker was then called, and I had a wig which matched my complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood] Reference
Thick eyebrows were raised until they almost met the line of his ponderous peruke. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
"You don't give your peruke a chance, Jerry, while you frame that ugly phiz in it.". From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
Snakes are in his peruke, and the crocodile of Nilus is in his belly; he will eat thee up alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference
"Ha!" says Sir Rupert, stroking a curl of his great peruke, "How cometh he brawling with the watch?". From Wordnik.com. [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference
There again was Castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
Morpheous is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
I descended, swallowed my cup of coffee as fast as I could, and entered the shop of the most lettered of peruke-makers. From Wordnik.com. [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference
Jasmin's son that he could scarcely believe that ministers of state would bother themselves with a country peruke-maker!. From Wordnik.com. [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference
Clare, the peasant boy; Bloomfield, the farmer's lad; Tannahill, the weaver; Allan Ramsay, the peruke-maker; Cooper, the shoemaker; and. From Wordnik.com. [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference
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