tow-like

A big, greenish, yellowish worm was crawling over his head, his tow-like hair whiter by contrast; upon his forehead great drops of perspiration.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

And never an old woman on Naples quay would ask him for an alms but would get it, he thinking all the time of the old woman with the tow-like hair who abode in his house, his wife's mother.

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

He was part bald, with a few lank locks of tow-like hair, and a steep, narrow forehead.

The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The outer covering of each drupe is hard, the inner part tow-like; seed enveloped in a sort of fleshy white meat.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

Pod full of short hairs, with more than 6 surrounded with a tow-like substance, reniform, with black spots.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

The fruit is about the size and shape of a hen's egg, the husk tow-like or filamentose, the kernel pinkish or light red.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

Fernande represented the handsome blonde; she was very tall, rather fat, and lazy; a country girl, who could not get rid of her freckles, and whose short, light, almost colorless, tow-like hair, like combed-out hemp, barely covered her head.

Original Short Stories — Volume 07 Guy de Maupassant 1871

Fernande represented the handsome blonde; she was very tall, rather fat, and lazy; a country girl, who could not get rid of her freckles, and whose short, light, almost colorless, tow-like hair, like combed-out hemp, barely covered her head.

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

Externally it was as usual chiefly composed of the withered stems of the little asteraceous plant, interwoven with a few jhow-shoots (_Tamarix dioica_) and a little tow-like fibre of the putsan (_Hibiscus cannabinus_), while

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The egg-cavity is, however, very regularly shaped, and neatly lined with very fine grass-stems and a little fine tow-like vegetable fibre.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870