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Usage examples of forelocks.

She likes to braid the manes and forelocks, puts little red bows on them.

You're buying a little girl plaiting the forelocks, taking off her hair ribbon to make bows, standing back, head cocked, rubbing the soft noses with her cheek.

His forelocks, having lost most of their jet sheen through long years of sleeplessness, were iron-grey.

He had shaved his head with the exception of black forelocks that hung one to each side, in the manner of certain nobles.

His flesh was washed and perfumed, tanned like leather, and his forelocks freshly greased.

As the men filed through the office, doffed their caps, took their pay and grunted respectful thanks or tugged at their low-growing forelocks, Edge muttered, "Every time we do this I find more new names on the rolls, and faces I don't recognize.

His assistants, I observed, were youthful-appearing also and given to forelocks, but their coats were dark, whereas the Chancellor's was fine light linen.

Beggars and street urchins also roamed the narrow thoroughfare-and undoubtedly cutpurses, too, Rhys thought ruefully-but they gave his Healer's green a wide berth as he passed, some of them even tugging at forelocks in respect.

Cathan bowed acknowledgment and the brothers tugged their forelocks in embarrassment.