frowsy-headed

So, about half-past four one misty, lowery afternoon, he found himself in a little room in Dirk's dwelling, with ten dirty-faced, frowsy-headed children huddled together in one corner, each of them regarding him with wide-open eyes, and apparently without the remotest idea what they were there for.

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

Dirty children screamed upon the avenue in front, and frowsy-headed women and wolfish men caroused in the saloon below.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

Next you must picture me breaking my back and tearing my fingers and the damned wall paper -- while the damned frowsy-headed landlady yells and the damned frowsy-headed boarders stick out their heads!

The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923

On all sides were the homes, built up a foot or two from the surface, each having three or four frowsy-headed youngsters or as many eggs.

The Trail of the Plume-Hunter 1910

The affair of the stolen box was much talked about along Sudbury way, and Miss Jerrold got to be considered quite a desirable young person among some of the youth near there, though she is a frowsy-headed creature, and not as neat in her personal attire as a young girl should be.

Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904

I sat down accordingly with Mr. Higgs the ex-butler, Mrs. Higgs the ex-lady's-maid, and Miss Agnes Higgs their frowsy-headed little girl, the least promising and (as the event showed) the most useful of the lot.

The Wrecker 1898

The affair of the stolen box was much talked about along Sudbury way, and Miss Jerrold got to be considered quite a desirable young person among some of the youth near there, though she is a frowsy-headed creature, and not as neat in her personal attire as a young girl should be.

Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography 1893

The sound of the music which, by the efforts of the frowsy-headed leader, drifted to her ears through the smoke-filled atmosphere, made the girl dream.

Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885

The local pharmacy, the caffè, the grocery, the fruiterer's, the other shops with which every Venetian campo is furnished, had each a certain life about it, but it was a silent life, and at midday a frowsy-headed woman clacking across the flags in her wooden-heeled shoes made echoes whose garrulity was interrupted by no other sound.

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

At a little distance in rear of the stacked arms were a few tents out of which frowsy-headed officers occasionally peered, languidly calling to their servants to fetch

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878