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  • Narrower and more unrelenting than ever were the forehead and the brushed-back hair.

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was spotted in Brussels, Belgium this morning with a new 'do: sort of brushed-back and poofy, all hairsprayed into place, ...

    Louis Licari: Have Helmet Head? The Case Against Hairspray As Demonstrated By Katie Couric 2009

  • Again the mist fell, and all of a sudden out of this mist the head of old Dessaire began to take distinct shape, beginning with the white, brushed-back hair!

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • At the studio door was a young man inserting a key — very elegant in smoke-grey Harris tweeds, a sliding young man with no hat, beautifully brushed-back bright hair, and a soft voice.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • The slant of the eyebrows, the long, strange shape of the ears half-revealed by the brushed-back hair.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • The slant of the eyebrows, the long, strange shape of the ears half-revealed by the brushed-back hair.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • In one corner sits Ross, with his brushed-back gray hair, his chic little clear-framed glasses, and a Laurie Anderson CD-ROM on his desk; in the other is Callan, with

    Traveling Collections 1995

  • Rank aside, there was something uniquely formidable about Wolf Matheson, with his high-cheekboned face, straight, brushed-back hair and curiously shaped eyes the colour of cinnamon.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • Her usually perfectly brushed-back hair had rebellious strands popping up like ruptured piano wires.

    Gates of Paradise V.C.ANDREWS 1989

  • Her usually perfectly brushed-back hair had rebellious strands popping up like ruptured piano wires.

    Gates of Paradise V.C.ANDREWS 1989

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