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No. 3: I blew my signing bonus on laser back-hair removal.

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Pleasant, consequently, wipes her eyes with her back-hair, which is in fresh need of being wound up, and having got it out of the way, watches with terrified interest all that goes on.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

And so prevalent was the fashion, that on the occasion of a fight or other disturbance in the Hole, the ladies would be seen flocking from all quarters universally twisting their back-hair as they came along, and many of them, in the hurry of the moment, carrying their back-combs in their mouths.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Having loosened my hair out of its braids, made up the long back-hair close, and brushed the front hair to one side, I took my hat and gloves in my hand and came out.

Villette 2003

Mr. G.H. CLARKE, in irreproachable clothes, (the clothes of this actor's professional life become him, if any thing, better than his acting,) offers his hand to FROU-FROU, a small girl with a reckless display of back-hair, and is accepted, to the evident disgust of her sensible sister, LOUISE.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 Various

It's exquisitely awful, you know, to have a husband picked out for you by dead folks, and I'm so sick about it sometimes that I hardly have the heart to fix my back-hair.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

And, O my brother or sister in sorrow, has it never befallen you, when bending all your energies to the mighty task of "doing" your back-hair, to find yourself gazing inanely at the opaque back of your brush, while the hand-mirror, which had maliciously insinuated itself into your right hand for this express purpose, came down upon your devoted head with a resonant whack?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

Arriving in the camp of her niece, she roused an alarming commotion by halting unobserved among the trees, staring hard at her niece's back-hair, dropping her hand bag, and bursting into tears that brought the startled campers to her side in a twinkling.

Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

FROU-FROU, in a dying state and a black dress, with her back-hair neatly arranged, is brought into her husband's house to die.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 Various

Can it be that they like the play because it teaches that the sins of a pretty woman should be condoned by her husband, provided she looks well with her back-hair down?

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 Various