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Thank goodness he finally accepted his baldness and now combs his side-hair straight back, giving him a sleek aerodynamic look.
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Pao-yü then cut, with a pair of bamboo scissors, a stalk, with two autumn orchids, which had blossomed in a flower pot, and he pinned it in her side-hair.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Daniel's dressing-room having been given up to the gentlemen I invited him to make his toilet in mine, and, indeed, wanting him to create a favorable impression, became his valet _pro tem. _, tying his cravat, and teasing the divinity-student look out of his side-hair.
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Pao-yü then cut, with a pair of bamboo scissors, a stalk, with two autumn orchids, which had blossomed in a flower pot, and he pinned it in her side-hair.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb's boy, when, passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants,
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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But your side-hair and ear doesn't make the perfect 'M G' shape!
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a scoop; and to gouge is to poke out the eye: this is done by thrusting the fingers into the side-hair thus acting as a base and by prising out the ball with the thumbnail which is purposely grown long.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Why, my dear fellow, you're at least a dozen years my junior, and look at me! "and John glanced at himself in the glass with a feeble pride, noting the gray sparseness of his side-hair, and its plaintive dearth on top.
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