Alma stands barefoot and wigless in the upstairs bedroom with a flashlight. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
"Don't you tremble, Sir Tilton, when you think of the wrath of the wigless Adonis?". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
American lawyers were never affected by that, and remain undifferentiated (and wigless!). From Wordnik.com. [Diogenes' Thumbprint: Libraries and History] Reference
I arose with a shining pate, wigless, she in disdain and wrath, half buried in alien hair. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
This last happened now; poor cracked and dead Billy Boy's wig was jauntily glued on the wigless head, and the late Janet became Lord. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
As the wigless farmer made his appearance, he was received with groans of derision, and was glad enough to escape with unbroken bones. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Lions licked blood-flavored ice blocks in the zoo, judges went wigless in court and guards at Buckingham Palace ducked into the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Behind the counter, tinkering with types, stood a man of about my own age, wise - eyed and wigless, his face as flat and round as the moon, his ginger hair tied back. From Wordnik.com. ['Blindspot'] Reference
A doll had opportunely lost her wig, and that always meant a good deal of excitement for the wigless one, for she was at once put to bed, and given medicine through the opening on top of the head, or made into a boy doll. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
Copley's portrait of him is unlike many of his others: Revere is very simply dressed, he is wigless, and he holds a teapot that alludes not only to his craft, but his political viewpoint, becoming an emblem of how increased taxes were strangling the economy in the colonies. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
When she made out in a half-asleep way that it was the child she detested who had dared to disturb her, wigless and asleep, her wrath boiled up, and when the same moonbeam showed her the shining silver clasped in the little hand, it fell hissing and spluttering and burning hot on the poor child's head, as he knelt speechless and trembling with fright. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The court was apparently nonplussed -- not so the wigless man of law. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
His head and mine were both bending over the bald head of the wigless Duke. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
"But we must go up-stairs," said Nan, who had covered her wigless head with. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Fairfield] Reference
Reading the book Halo My Dear Angel is like reading someone else's hatless and wigless state in journal entries. From Wordnik.com. [Mywebblogs.com Master Site Feed] Reference
On the terrace among the leaden gods danced a little man, wigless, in an orange-coloured dressing-gown and a fury of choler. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Troy] Reference
He lived eight years, so I doubt not Mary was tender to him and mourned him when he died, hard though he was and wigless withal. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
To keep out the wigless and the uninvited, Mr. Saylor employs a private security detail, which has worked with him for five years. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
I'm a mother, actress, comedienne & talk show host yet I'm wigless, homeless & sitting on the stairs waiting for a locksmith cuz I lost keysless than a minute ago via TweetDeck. From Wordnik.com. [Jezebel] Reference
And then there are the images … It's hard to think of any other writer who would come up with such a richly evocative description of hats as "small black dinghies beached upon their wigless heads". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Walters, for all that she is so lovable, has the beadiest eyes and, in the middle of a hug, a rude joke or a good scratch of her wigless scalp, you could see them working, gauging the reactions to her performance, much as I imagine Mowlam's used to. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
The Hall itself, fitted with polished mahogany benches, was handsome and well aired, and between it and the grand court, as it is called, occupying the other end of the building, which was then sitting, there is a large cool saloon, generally in term time well filled with wigless lawyers and their clients. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
He was at least six feet two in height, and such as I have described him; there he stood, with his hands grasping the rail before him and looking intently at a wigless lawyer who was opening the accusation, while he had one ear turned a little towards the sworn interpreter of the court, whose province it was, at every pause, to explain to the prisoners what the learned gentleman was stating. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
A shining pate, wigless; she in disdain and wrath, half buried in alien hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
The previews had led me to believe that we might finally see a shot of Kim’s wigless cube. From Wordnik.com. ['Real Housewives of Atlanta' recap : Kim Calls NeNe a Moose | EW.com] Reference
What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Andrew Marr wrote in the Independent that because of the Mates affair I suffered ‘some of the worst press coverage a modern Speaker has endured 'and that disgruntled ministers were saying they did not like my' wigless informality '. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Hatless, wigless …. '. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Lenore Pancoe Meyerhoff, 1927 - 1988] Reference
What? "asked both princesses when they saw for a moment at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
A wigless Hamlet would have failed the same. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
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