The fur or pelage is remarkable for its extreme woolliness, the hairy piles being few and sparely scattered amongst the woolliness, which is most abundant; the head as far as the ears, the ears, and the limbs are clad in close ordinary hair; the belly is thinly covered with longer hairs; but all the rest of the animal is clothed in a thick sheep-like coat, which is most abundant on the neck above and below. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
In addition they enjoy increased mental focus as ‘woolliness’ and ‘brain fog’ disappear. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Weeks later, in Mexico, I commented to a Cuban friend my surprise at the Comandante's woolliness. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel in the Evening] Reference
Which is all well and good: but the context, as Cameron made very clear, is going to be one of great difficulty, in which glibness, rigid ideology and woolliness alike will have no place. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
As it is, a white sheet — or more properly speaking, considering its soft, stuffy woolliness, a white blanket — is stretched across the landscape to the south-west, where the sea would show. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
In fact, I was so impressed because only a few years ago, I had heard Stephen Hawking saying that "anything spiritual was a progressive decline in woolliness" -- quote, unquote, and now he's talking. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Deepak Chopra Talks About 'How to Know God' - March 18, 2000] Reference
This 'ere's a bad cove as is takin' adwantage o 'your woolliness. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Archer and Other Tales] Reference
Other legends hold that the woolly bear's predictive capacity lies in its woolliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines] Reference
Charlotte was rather amused by her attempts to apologise for Sir Edward's woolliness. From Wordnik.com. [Sanditon] Reference
Again came the response, but this time, although still soft and low, free from all the woolliness of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference
It was a grey day with a gentle wind, the sky of a teased pearl woolliness with curious warm tints in it here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
As the parts mature, the woolliness usually disappears, except along the midrib and principal veins, which become almost glabrous. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
It now indicates, generally speaking, an intellectual defect which expresses itself in a literary quality one can only call woolliness. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
It attempts to measure prosperity by going beyond GDP but by avoiding the woolliness usually associated with the GDP-is-not-enough crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
As it is, a white sheet -- or more properly speaking, considering its soft, stuffy woolliness, a white blanket -- is stretched across the landscape to the south-west, where the sea would show. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
Labour does have a lot of thinking to do: and that requires clear heads, not woolliness; proper analysis rather than rhetoric; and the reconciling of many opposing arguments, rather than assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Bloggers4Labour] Reference
And part of that moviegoing experience certainly would have been the wildness and woolliness of actually trying to project light through celluloid onto a screen before an eager audience in unconventional places like classrooms and dorms. From Wordnik.com. [Dane101] Reference
Observe, however, in drawing any stuffs, or bindings of books, or other finely textured substances, do not trouble yourself, as yet, much about the woolliness or gauziness of the thing; but get it right in shade and fold, and true in pattern. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
If that's a vague question, it reflects a woolliness at the heart of this doc, which often appears uncertain about how best to approach the contradictions surrounding Daltrey and Townshend performing My Generation in their 60s rather than in the 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Apart from the rest of the children, on the top rail of a fence, holding tight on to the tall gate post, sat a little girl of perhaps thirteen years of age; darker than any of the others, and with a more decided woolliness in the hair; a pure unmitigated. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah H. Bradford. Harriet, the Mosesof Her People.] Reference
Apart from the rest of the children, on the top rail of a fence, holding tight on to the tall gate post, sat a little girl of perhaps thirteen years of age; darker than any of the others, and with a more decided woolliness in the hair; a pure unmitigated African. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet The Moses of Her People]
We kept to the fields and copses and commons, and breathed the same sweet air as the nibbling donkeys and the browsing sheep, whose woolliness seemed to me, in those early days of my acquaintance with English objects, but a part of the general texture of the small, dense landscape, which looked as if the harvest were gathered by the shears. From Wordnik.com. [The Author Of Beltraffio] Reference
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