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A tonsured head peered fearfully into the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of Summer Flame]

What hair there was on his tonsured head was silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

A shiny, tonsured scalp reflected the light from the tower window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad] Reference

A young Franciscan, his tonsured head a gleaming pink spot surrounded by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Rhavas kept the hood of his robe up over his ears and his tonsured scalp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

The speaker was a man of sixty, short, stout, tonsured by the hand of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

The sight of the coarse habit and the tonsured head struck a chill through me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

Gone are the careful lawns with their geometric flower beds and tonsured hedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Does The Garden Grow?] Reference

Rhavas flipped back his hood and let his tonsured scalp shine forth for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

I have a benefice vacant, but should dislike to see those locks of yours tonsured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

The man who played him wore a blue robe; he had a bald head that let him look tonsured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

And I well remember Haluin as he first came to me, eighteen years old, not yet tonsured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confession of Brother Haluin]

His face was vaguely familiar, as one among many tonsured heads at services in Kingsbridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

I gave him to you early, sent to be educated and tonsured, to serve you and your sweet son.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference

Nearly two dozen displaced Kashmiri Pandit tonsured their heads in New Delhi.www. scoopnews.in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kashmiri Pandits observe September 14 as their Martyr���s Day after their exodus from their origin] Reference

The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, Fine. Just Fine.] Reference

Thereafter the youth was brought into the island to Ciaran, and Ciaran tonsured him, and he read with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

A hundred and fifty tonsured apostles of incivism here fell in one day beneath the two-handed sword of freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

The miniatures conform to the tale; tonsured monks bear Achilles to the grave; they carry tapers in their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

The black-robed clergy, standing together, were clearly visible, their tonsured heads looking like rows of helmets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Habit of the Augustinian Canons, the hands joined in prayer, and the tonsured head reposing upon a tasselled cushion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference

He was tonsured, baptized, an alphabet was written for him, and he read his psalms in one day, as has been related to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference

Old Brother Rhys was sitting up beside his neatly made bed, not far from the fire, nodding his ancient, grey-tonsured head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monk's Hood]

After all, the Monks have been a persistent rumor since the 1960's, with pictures of their tonsured heads turning up on occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Music Of Death, Alive Again] Reference

Fidelis drew the thin shoulders gently back to rest against him, the tonsured head, bared to the morning air, pillowed on his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

They were facing a small wiry man with a tonsured head, a thick fringe of grey hair cut very short in a regular line above a high forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder Room]

She entered a convent and was tonsured with the name Juliana.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis] Reference

It is a man in a crimson garment lined with white, and not tonsured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

There is a dungeon, the chanting of the procession of tonsured priests, the passing-bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

They believe that this scene confirms rumours that Ravi had got Kalyan tonsured years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference

SASARAM: A Class IX student was kidnapped on his way to school, tonsured, and his face blackened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference