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  • We don't know, but we DO know that her tously 'do, mischievous smile, and sparkly eyes score her 3 out of 4 JFKs!

    Colleen Werthmann: Democratic Presidential Debate Hottie Rundown! 2008

  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association has never paid salaries to its officers, so, when I be - came vice-president and eventually, in 1904, presi - dent of the association, I continued to work gratui - tously for the Cause in these positions.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • When I told her the work was wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and on the services of those who were willing to give themselves gratui - tously to it, Miss Thomas was greatly surprised.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • Then quite abruptly she crossed to her bureau and pushing aside the old ivory toilet articles, began to jerk her tously hair first one way and then another across her worried forehead.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • But even after a three hour session among the white goods sales Vee still remembered the Stribbles, so about five o'clock we finds ourselves divin 'into a basement that's none too clean and are being received by a tall, skinny female with a tously mop of sandy hair bobbed up on her head.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • Bewildered, the tously little bull bellowed in great affright.

    The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

  • He has it in a little khaki-coloured case along with one of the girl he's going to marry -- quite a pretty girl with tously hair and large eyes. "

    Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

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