DAVIDSON: Just a fine, great, big grey-headed man. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Betty and Lloyd Davidson, 1979 February 2 and 15. Interview H-19. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Betty Davidson] Reference
The ash-holt grey-headed; that host of the iron 330. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
And so there he stood, tall and grey-headed, in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
The door opens, and the grey-headed Father appears with the newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
I knocked on the door, and a real old, grey-headed man came to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Roy Ham, 1977. Interview H-0123-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Dinah, who was a grey-headed washerwoman, had made it, and I must drink it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The curate, a grey-headed clergyman, who had been a confessor in the days of. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Adams says, Woolo was king of Timbuctoo in 1810, and was old and grey-headed. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
It is unlucky to dream that a girl has a beard, or that a boy is grey-headed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The status of the black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses on Macquarie Island. From Wordnik.com. [MacQuarie Island, Australia] Reference
"I can well believe it, Sir, I can well believe it," said the grey-headed Father. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
This grey-headed guy and his white haired woman are coming our way down the aisle. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
We are passing the old "cob" walls and grey-headed barns of a substantial farmstead. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
He, when returned from the war, though grey-headed, yet if he wishes can choose out a wife. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
He was then between forty and fifty years of age, a grey-headed, resolute, self-controlled looking man. From Wordnik.com. [Old Daniel] Reference
Beneath a tall tree stood, in the dress of a minister of the gospel, a middle-aged but grey-headed man. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
They may take me prisoner; but, old and grey-headed, it is more likely they may not think it worth while. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Asha smiled, and took his grey-headed, bent, unnoticed figure down the back streets to the house of Too-che. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun King] Reference
Outside the porch was a grey-headed old man, the sexton, who was taking his evening walk amongst the graves. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
Species abundant around villages include grey-headed sparrow Passer griseus and hooded vulture Necrosytres monachus. From Wordnik.com. [Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali] Reference
“And by the by, who is that grey-headed murderer in a tall hat whom I saw shepherding two girls into this house?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
Resolution gleamed in the face of the grey-headed and flashed from the eyes of the young men as they stood side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
Once more we will return to that pretty drawing-room, and visit the kind sisters, the grey-headed father, the loving mother. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
'I would rather have an escort of barefooted, bareheaded, ragged slave boys and girls led by some old grey-headed slave mother.'. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
A grey-headed and feeble old man was standing near the grave, leaning with his two hands on a staff, and with his head depressed. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded] Reference
Junius judiciously held his peace, but a grey-headed old man who had heard the conversation went up to the unlucky poet, and laying. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
I know not; I remember nothing, I can tell nothing but that I heard my grey-headed Father, in a low, distinct, and solemn manner, say. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
In this dark hour the friends of the Slave could do but little more than sympathize with this heart-stricken son and grey-headed father. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Leave me not now, when I am old and grey-headed; but when strength and heart fail, be thou the strength of my heart and portion for ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
Near the Rome Termini, my wife and I had a lovely dinner at a family-style restaurant that was almost bursting with grey-headed tourists. From Wordnik.com. [Brent Green: Baby Boomers: 1969 - Europe on 5 Dollars a Day; 2009 - Europe on 500 Dollars a Day] Reference
He is, or rather was, a schoolmaster, wears spectacles and is grey-headed; what induced him to join in this little game heaven, and he, only know. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
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