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Usage examples of ringlet.

From one issue the notes of a piano, which a young lady in ringlets practises six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow-lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whilst Jacob, his papa, is beheld eating prawns, and devouring the Times for breakfast, at the window below.

This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.

Not just one or two that might have floated in from a corner of the room left undusted, but as much as ever, brown ringlets and curlicues of keratin lying stark against the white sheets.

A debut an was raising a face ravaged by smallpox beyond the shelter of lappet or ringlet and the Viceroy bent in service to his Queen.

His hair was shining, ringlets of gold, for all that the years had paled them, and he walked with the sure confidence of a man in his youth.

Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.

The Angel had manifested a human face for the wondercruise: an Apollonian facade with bronzed skin, a long Roman nose, tight brass ringlets with bronze highlights.

Flaxen blond hair turned into ringlets on their heads, pmk lips turned rosy from the sun, and their cheeks stayed flushed with color, while their wide, innocent, blue eyes devoured all faces, swallowed down all first impressions.

No one was dressed as richly as Rhodine, with four flounces to her pink gown and her hair prinked into ringlets.

Hurling sootballs, schoolbag raised as a shield, shrieking with joy in her linen sailor dress, ringlets flying, forever banishing herself from the society of girls.

The Valkyrs, as white clad virgins with flowing ringlets, wait on them in the capacity of cup bearers.

When she impatiently tossed her head to shake away the waterdrops, her clay ringlets melted altogether and trickled down her shoulders.

A moment later he had entwined one of her ringlets about his fingers, just brushing the sensitive skin of her neck as he did so.

He glimpsed breasts rosy from her shower, soft nipples, and damp ringlets of pubic hair a darker shade of butterscotch than the curls sticking to her cheeks.

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted.