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1. Her long, flowing, red hair was braided into a single plait
2. Afterwards, she’d braid it into a long plait, then bind the end, but the leather cord had come loose during her struggle with Tragus in the cave
3. Her thick, long, red hair was neatly braided into a long plait that came halfway down her back
4. a plait in her mouth
5. She twisted her plait in her fingers
6. The damp air, her plait, her cloak
7. Long brown hair was pulled back in a thick plait, every other part of his slim, bronzed body had been shaved smooth and copiously oiled
8. Preeti had plaited a pirandhi into her hair (Indian extended plait with delicate beading on the end)
9. Preeti flung her extended plait over her shoulder
10. While Roopa maneuvered the flowered plait of the bride, Raja Rao stood up to tie the mangalasutrams round Sandhya’s shapely nape, and before he proceeded, Roopa heard him whisper to Sandhya, ‘With your permission
11. "The first thing," said Frau Dosch, arriving two hours later, surprisingly brisk and business-like considering her age and the heat, "the first thing is to plait your hair in two plaits
12. One sought out one's little wife and rested one's brain; one took one's son on one's knee; one pulled, perhaps, the plait of one's daughter
13. "You want your hair doing in a plait," he said
14. Paul put the long thin plait of grey hair over her shoulder and kissed her
15. Bonnie fiddled with the end of her plait and looked at Madeline with slightly unfocused eyes
16. Bonnie was waiting for her in the living room, standing very still, looking out to the ocean with her long blond plait falling down the center of her yoga-straight back
17. Another girl's plait cut
18. powdered head as much as the tail, which Tikhon was holding fast to plait, would allow
19. A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair
20. The dirty maidservant stepped from behind the trunk, put up her plait, sighed, and went on her short, bare feet along the path
21. There were people at the entrance: servants, and a rosy girl with a large plait of black hair, smiling as it seemed to Princess Mary in an unpleasantly affected way
22. She was barefooted, and her hair hung down in a long plait, tied at the end with a bit of string, as it had been in Malaya
23. She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more
24. Mother was slender and soft, with a woven plait of spun-gold hair over her head in a tiara, and eyes the color of the deep cool canal water where it ran in shadow, almost purple, with flecks of amber caught in it
25. Mother was slender and soft, with a woven plait of spungold hair over her head in a tiara, and eyes the color of the deep cool canal water where it ran in shadow, almost purple, with flecks of amber caught in it
26. Her long flaxen hair was coiled up in a thick plait at the top of her head
27. Then plait the three lines together (c) (see Knots)
28. When he got all the work done, he sent his son out to earn money, and himself sat down in the winter to plait bast shoes and hollow out blocks for the hives
29. He's coming; coming directly, coming in no time! He'll be here before one could plait a girl's hair who's had her hair cropped! Drink, friends! (Offers the drink
30. She was a tall, strong, gloomy-looking woman; her fair hair, which had begun to turn grey on the temples, hung down in a short plait
31. The thick, short plait of her fair hair had come undone and hung down dishevelled, and she paced up and down the free space of the cell, not looking at any one, turning abruptly every time she came up to the wall
32. Next to him lay a bare-footed old woman in a white petticoat, her head, with its thin plait of hair, uncovered, with a little, pinched yellow face and a sharp nose
33. He's coming; coming directly, coming in no time! He'll be here before one could plait a girl's hair who's had her hair cropped! Drink, friends! [Offers the drink] Coming at once! Sing again, my pets, meanwhile!
34. Her black plait was tied with a ribbon, the ends of which were trimmed with silver roubles
35. The coins in her plait could be heard jingling in the darkness
36. “Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?” said the old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon was holding fast to plait, would allow
37. Her scanty gray locks, greasy with oil, were gathered in one thin plait, which was fixed to the back of her neck by means of a piece of horn comb
38. As he bent he caught her great plait in both his hands and held it so that she could not straighten herself
1. It is strange standing in there looking at all his belongings - there’s that book you gave him one Christmas when we were both teenagers – he was mad keen on motorbikes at the time – look there’s the inscription you wrote all those years ago - and there’s a photo of the two of us on the wall, it must have been taken some time ago - your hair was long then, plaited and lying over your shoulder
2. Locals make the ‘panama hat’ from plaited toquil a straw
3. When a mermaid’s splash distracted him, she plaited hair over the horn
4. Fetish was represented by hundreds of charms of every size, shape, and description, from the common slaves' ju-ju of plaited straw to the elaborately worked charms of chased gold or leopard and lion skin, with human blood on the sacred inscription inside as a fancied panacea, of far-reaching power, to cure every disease, destroy an enemy, and grant the wearer a perfect immunity from any ills the flesh or spirit is heir to
5. long, plaited pigtails bouncing behind her head as she ran
6. Her hair was plaited, and she was twirling
7. The girl with plaited hair opened her notebook and wrote that she wanted to own
8. Libuse’s hair was plaited and hung nearly to her waist
9. a fine plaited substance that looked very similar to what natives
10. I could almost smell the burning of wax candles at every section of his palatial home, the bright coloured clothes brought from India through trading adorning the women, their bosoms exposed, their hair plaited with diamonds embellishing their soft necks, their ears garnished with the vibrant stones of the East
11. Pilate said to them And Jesus which is called the Messiah what shall I do with him? They all cried out and said Crucify him; And Pilate spoke to them again for he desired to release Jesus; but they cried out and said Crucify him crucify him and release to us Barabbas; And Pilate said to them a third time What evil has this man done? I have not found in him any cause to necessitate death; I will chastise him and let him go; But they increased in importunity with a loud voice and asked him to crucify him; And their voice and the voice of the chief priests prevailed; Then Pilate released to them that one who was throw into prison for sedition and murder Barabbas whom they asked for and he scourged Jesus with whips; Then the footsoldiers of the judge took Jesus and went into the praetorium and gathered to him all of the footsoldiers; And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet cloak; And they clothed him in garments of purple and plaited a crown of thorns and placed it on his head and a reed in his right hand; and while they mocked at him and laughed they fell down on their knees before him and bowed down to him and said Hail King of the Jews! And they spat in his face and took the reed from his hand and struck him on his head and struck his cheeks; And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews I bring him out to you that you may know that I do not find in examining him even one crime; And Jesus went outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garments
12. " Adam gasped as he saw the two sparkling grey's, groomed to perfection with pink ribbons plaited into their manes and tails
13. Her hair, still long and plaited on top of her head in our fashion, was the color of the wispy clouds that came before a rain
14. Bill Smith and his wife, a craggy, large-boned woman wearing beige hair coiled in plaited discs over her ears and a stone-splitting glint in her eye, arrived to check the display and the entries in the catalogue
15. Scara shook her hair out, letting it tumble out of its braid before she plaited it again and tossed it over her shoulder
16. Preeti had plaited a pirandhi into her hair (Indian extended plait with delicate beading on the end)
17. A pale young woman with her black hair plaited into two long braids that reached her waist entered the room
18. Emily was one of those dolls with zips and buttons, and hair that could be brushed and even, at a pinch, plaited, but when she first had her, Alicia was too young to do any of those things, so she used to suck her foot
19. At the last moment, when she was in her nightgown and her hair was neatly plaited and she was looking the goodest of tidy little women, her courage failed her
20. The basket was round, made of plaited wicker, with a Little Bo Peep arched handle
21. Adulterous women who plaited their
22. Both of our attentions were pulled back to Keturah as she spiraled around in an arching curve and let go of the leather plaited rope, which sailed out through the air to land with a splash in the water in the distance
23. Her thin, light hair, streaked with grey, thickly smeared with grease, was plaited in a rat's tail and fastened by a broken horn comb which stood out on the nape of her neck
24. Thus his cambric shirt with plaited cuffs was blown out by the wind in the opening of his waistcoat of grey ticking, and his broad-striped trousers disclosed at the ankle nankeen boots with patent leather gaiters
25. As he lightly brushed and plaited her hair, he bit his lip and felt dazed
26. " And then they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand
27. had small, nimble fingers, and he plaited straws into tough cords for tying the sheaves
28. Swinging his scythe just as ever, and moving his feet in their big, plaited shoes with firm, little steps, he climbed slowly up the steep place, and though his breeches hanging out below his smock, and his whole frame trembled with effort, he did not miss one blade of grass or one mushroom on his way, and kept making jokes with the peasants and Levin
29. The ingots packed in boxes of stiff ox-hide with plaited handles, small enough to be carried easily by two men, were brought down by the serenos of the mine walking in careful couples along the half-mile or so of steep, zigzag paths to the foot of the mountain
30. Her hair was elaborately plaited and shellacked, her head tilted, her smile slightly open-mouthed, as if the yearbook photographer had said something to make her laugh
31. Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm
32. Their beards were forked and plaited and thrust into their belts
33. not even a rail; only on one side was there a light plaited screen, which could be moved and fixed in different places according to the wind
34. The hobbits' packs were brought to them (a little heavier than they had been), and also two stout staves of polished wood, shod with iron, and with carven heads through which ran plaited leathern thongs
35. This Pursuer was a terrible Man, Name of Seabury, with a red Beard to his Waist in which he had plaited colour’d Ribbands, and he was known as a Blackguard who did not e’en keep the Pyrate Code, but play’d into the Plans of the Colonial Governours, e’en turning in his own Men if the Reward were high enough
36. “Lancelot!” I cried, to the Vision of my former Love, now with a long red Beard plaited with Sea-green Ribbands, and the Sea-green Eyes which had a lunatick Look
37. She was dressed in a thick Egyptian dressing gown, and her brown hair was plaited into a rope that hung over her left shoulder
38. She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what SHE'D do
39. That evening, proud of Dolokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy
40. A tall, beautiful woman with a mass of plaited hair and much exposed plump white shoulders and neck, round which she wore a double string of large pearls, entered the adjoining box rustling her heavy silk dress and took a long time settling into her place
41. Some built little houses of the tufts in the plowed ground, or plaited baskets from the straw in the cornfield
42. He stared at her, noting the black hair plaited in a pigtail, the brown arms and feet, the sarong, the brown baby on her hip
43. There are worse things to do in a very hot country th an to put on a large conical sun- hat of plaited palm leaves and take off most of your clothes, and play about with mud and water, damming and diverting little trickling streams
44. First, as always, he plaited her single braid that he himself had loosened before they made love, and he sat her on the table to tie the bow on her school shoes, which was something she never did well
45. But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head
46. Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents
47. And as that famous great tierce is mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun
48. The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts
49. Her thin, light hair, streaked with grey, thickly smeared with grease, was plaited in a rat’s tail and fastened by a broken horn comb which stood out on the nape of her neck
50. The house stood in a yard, and before the windows was a small garden, and in the garden stood the landlord's beehives, not in hollow stems, as in Russia, but in round, plaited baskets
1. Here again great tufts of undergrowth were plaiting
2. Bathing and dressing took a little longer than usual; the simple act of drawing a comb through her long dark hair more troublesome and the plaiting more fiddly
3. Most of her time, though, was spent in brushing out Em’s long, blonde hair, then plaiting it in an intricate braid
4. By the time Uretep and Peteru’s nerves had settled, the beast was skinned and eviscerated, and the men were plaiting vines and preparing a pole to which they tied it’s legs
5. Before the scourgers laid their knotted whips upon Jesus as he was bound to the whipping post, they again put upon him the purple robe, and plaiting a crown of thorns, they placed it upon his brow
6. Plaiting: An elaborate gathering of the hair into a knot
7. games and plaiting one another’s hair
8. Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges
9. An old peasant whom Prince Andrew in his childhood had often seen at the gate was sitting on a green garden seat, plaiting a bast shoe
10. 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
11. He would walk about the village whistling, or doing something with his hands, such as modelling dolls out of clay, or plaiting baskets out of twigs
12. Prokófy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges
1. The young man seeks to escape running along Nereid street, but he is someone else now: I am the man! A plump lady with blond plaits, who resembles my grandma Alice at a young age, appears as a spirit on the sky and declares that “the world of matter is appealing to everybody”
2. Most African tribes dressed their hair in plaits wrapped in thread, tight to the scalp, either in straight rows (hence the name) or intricate patterns and the ends were secured with thread and/
3. me had yelled in unision to the angry jerk of plaits tied
4. Smooth skin, long gray hair in two plaits, one on either side of her head
5. Grey grass, sharp-edged, plaits the hillside
6. his feet, hiding his army boots under plaits of blue cotton
7. Cloud eventually opting to carry the plaits at his ankles
8. girl with plaits whispered, “She’s got the devil in her
9. Erica’s stare caught the girl with plaits; the
10. “She writes the number of death,” the girl with the plaits yelled in a panicked
11. She cleared her throat and, after combing her graying hair into the thick plaits she wore on top of her head, came for breakfast
12. "The first thing," said Frau Dosch, arriving two hours later, surprisingly brisk and business-like considering her age and the heat, "the first thing is to plait your hair in two plaits
13. So easily could she be stirred to courage and enthusiasm that she was able to forget most of her fears and discomforts in the new business of training her mind to triumph over her body, and she got through a surprising quantity of mixed reading that winter and spring; and when at last in the following May her hour had come, she marched off almost recklessly with her two plaits already hanging down her back and her head held high and her eyes wide and shining to the fatal bedroom where Death she supposed, but refused to care, sat waiting to see if he could not get her this time, so filled was she with the spirit she had been cultivating for six months of proud determination not to be beaten
14. She didn't mention the window, for which Miss Entwhistle was thankful; but when first she woke up from her frightening dream and her aunt hurried across to her, she had stared at her and actually called her Everard--her, in her meek plaits
15. Two long plaits descending down her shoulders and over her breasts
16. "Where do you think you're goin', missy?" Lance voiced boomed teasingly and watched satisfiedly as she fidgitted with the end of her one of her plaits
17. "Perhaps I'll catch her," answered Milly Edwards, the waitress with the pale plaits of hair; and she dashed through the door
18. She put her hand to her plaits
19. Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown
20. "The Antonia you used to know when she wore her hair in two plaits down her
21. "I wish you would fasten up my plaits, dear," said Rosamond, letting her arms fall with a little sigh, so as to make a husband ashamed of standing there like a brute
22. Lydgate had often fastened the plaits before, being among the deftest of men with his large finely formed fingers
23. He swept up the soft festoons of plaits and fastened in the tall comb (to such uses do men come!); and what could he do then but kiss the exquisite nape which was shown in all its delicate curves? But when we do what we have done before, it is often with a difference
24. Only half an hour before he had been fastening up her plaits for her, and talking the "little language" of affection, which Rosamond, though not returning it, accepted as if she had been a serene and lovely image, now and then miraculously dimpling towards her votary
25. as blameworthy, and that was the graceful creature with blond plaits and with little hands crossed before her, who had never expressed herself unbecomingly, and had always acted for the best—the best naturally being what she best liked
26. rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with
27. Sonya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck
28. satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow
29. All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations which seemed to be calculations of distances
30. Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom
31. Their long carrot-colored hair had been fought into plaits while the remainder stuck out in frizzy, uncontrollable waves
32. Carrie took hold of one of her flame-colored plaits and tapped it nervously on her shoulder
33. Her ginger hair, which was still fought into two plaits, stood her lunch
34. "What's that he said—Ahab beware of Ahab—there's something there!" Then unconsciously using the musket for a staff, with an iron brow he paced to and fro in the little cabin; but presently the thick plaits of his forehead relaxed, and returning the gun to the rack, he went to the deck
35. The shepherd plaits his shoe of bark,(66)
36. She wore a dressing-jacket, her feet were in slippers, her face painted, and her hair was in dozens of small plaits
37. The third of the women who were sewing was Theodosia, a quiet young girl, white and rosy, very pretty, with bright child’s eyes, and long fair plaits which she wore twisted round her head
38. “And he’s a fine fellow, I’ve heard say,” said Theodosia, who sat bareheaded, with her long plaits round her head, on a log of wood opposite the shelf bedstead on which the teapot stood
39. Sónya was a slender little brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but graceful and muscular arms and neck
40. But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow