I couldn’t see anything of Annabeth except a glint of her blond hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

My invitingly plump grandmother stood in the doorway, her hair in a light Jheri curl and a smile settled so firmly across her face it seemed permanently engraved. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A baby girl with eyes of gold and hair the color of sunlight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Across the street was Stew “Bright Eyes” Fiddler, an industrial parts salesman with a taste for bourbon and barmaids, and his wife, Mizzi, whose hair changed color like a mood ring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And rituals help too: door locking, tidying up, cleaning teeth, arranging hair, but they are preliminaries to the truly necessary things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a sweet, simple face and dark, thick hair held back with bobby pins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who is to say she should not have run to the forest with her hair and umbilical cords flying, and knelt to deposit each of these three at the base of its own pine tree? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This guy standing at the mirror moving his hair around his head was someone—something—different. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m just kind of...surprised. I didn’t realize it was this severe. Oh, I think I know who she is, his mom. Is she very pretty, kind of exotic, has dark wavy hair?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She smothers me in a cloud of chemicals that makes me cough, and the next time I touch my hair it's so stiff it feels like plastic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d been fooled because my great-great-grandfather wore the same suit and the same grim face in both photographs, his hair thick and long. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stroked the fine line of small dark hairs above his lip. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair rolled back cleanly as a wave at the beach. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That hair’s looking long enough now,” he says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was so dirty it looked brown. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tucks my hair behind my ears like she used to do when I was young. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If I close my eyes I can feel the warm hand of the sun on my back, the whisper of wind through my neck hairs, which stood on end at every shot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had russet hair and a slender neck, and wore a robe that had belonged to the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Trashman sat by the rocking chair and let her rumple his hair. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has black hair and large golden earrings, and is carrying a round object the size of a beach ball, which is in fact an orange. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dudes had short spiky hair and big collars and flip-flops and they all walked around like they were supposed to be somebody, but I’d never seen none of ’em on TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of his eyes was burnt shut and his hair was but a nitty wig of ash upon his blackened skull. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I thought of Baba’s thick neck, his black eyes, his unruly brown hair. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was a park ranger, with long black hair pulled back in a ponytail and tinted glasses. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Relax, it’s just one guy. And it’s just your hair. Dead matter according to Mr. McKay.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A girl with black hair, small eyes, and her arms raised to the sky is bursting from the sea, and pale blue feathers sprout from every inch of her clothing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was asked four times if my hair was dyed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hayes came rushing from her bedroom, her hair pinned and wrapped in a blue scarf with flowers on it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In Clark’s journals, he wrote that many Native Americans were fascinated with York’s dark skin, his hair, his big frame. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t care that I am not dressed, that my hair is pulled back in a sloppy bun. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day the honey-hair girl takes her pink ribbons and knots pigtails in my hair. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She curled around him and pressed her cheek to his hair, muffling his trembling with the pressure of her body on his. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Why do you want short hair like a boy?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was in black and white, but it was clear that she had dark hair and dark eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had curled her hair in honor of the occasion and was out on the terrace in her coat, waiting for her Uncle Jaime to take her out to buy her present. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his mouth so close to my ear I could feel his lips on my hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she first walked by me in the halls, with her hair cut so much shorter, I couldn’t keep my mouth from falling open. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He stood, the skull about on a level with his face, and held up his hair with two hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her magenta hair’s fluffed up like a cloud and decorated with gilded butterflies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Staring at the back of Mei-li’s head, her short green and black hair, I tried to think for the first time about the girl’s side of things when it came to Diego. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Fornatee kept his hair cut so close to his scalp that he looked nearly bald. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was really him—snow in his hair, snow on the shoulders of his long black overcoat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For the briefest moment Maddie winced, but with a shake of her motionless hair, she said, “Sounds like someone who’s afraid of losing.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Wear the blue satin dress hanging in your closet and leave your hair down. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the firelight his hair was impossibly red, his eyes a shocking, vibrant green. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess we have to expect this too,” he said, pulling some of the hairs loose from the wire and letting them blow away in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, the door framed a man with shoulders as wide as the door itself, wiry red hair, and a bushy red beard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi yelled as the two sets of hippie hair disappeared down the street. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Everybody left me alone on meet days because they knew I had my rituals—hair, nails, begging for Flo Jo to give me some of her magic from heaven. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Like, I’m not supposed to show my hair to guys who aren’t in my family?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Long dark hair shaking in the wind; beautiful, it was. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the yellow candlelight his silver-grey hair seemed almost golden, though the pouches underneath his eyes were etched as large as saddlebags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair was not oiled and combed as usual, her eyes were bloodshot as though she had partaken of strong drink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Escaped wisps of hair were recaptured and returned to white headscarves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is half an inch long, a new crop of head fur, short and spiky. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His long, white- blond hair hangs in dirty strings, and he doesn't even seem to notice that some of it is plastered across his face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There, on our bench, sat a tall girl with black hair and skin the same color as mine. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun played hide-and-seek with some purple clouds stretched out along the Jersey City skyline, and a warm summer breeze swooshed in through the open Cadillac windows and made a mess of her hair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As she handed the young man his cup, she tenderly straightened his hair in a motherly gesture as she propped up his head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I catch a whiff of his sporty, fresh-scented shower gel and notice his hair is wet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was tall and willowy, and the sun gave her long sandy hair a golden halo. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Dewey two was light-skinned with freckles everywhere and a head of tight red hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls her hair over her real cheeks, holding it there, eyes wide and angry in the moonlight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He went out of the room calling "Ewing!" and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had pulled on a Celtics knit hat so I wouldn’t have icicles for hair, but I didn’t have anything to block the frosty air hitting my face. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Doreah washed her hair and combed it out, working loose the mats and tangles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s how I knew it was him. The way he moves. Not because of his coat or his hair or whatever.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His face was gray and drawn, his black hair damp on his brow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had sandy-colored hair combed straight back and he wore a sky-blue shirt. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were still drooped from sleep, and her pale brown hair stuck up all over her head like a squirrel’s nest on a winter branch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then, I think her hair is just fine. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There is no blood, no cloud of doll hair burning up in the candle fire. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The security guy double takes on Dalton’s passport, because his hair is brown in the photo, but now it’s bleached blond. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He got up and went to the window and ran his hands through his hair, pulling it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I had tried to clean the beautiful brush but hadn’t been able to get all the short red hair from it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I will take you to the woman who plaits your aunts hair in the market.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After my Saturday night bath, I set my hair on rag rollers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t be afraid to look them in the eye,” she said with a grin, and then ruffled Ash’s hair before moving on into the dining room. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay awake longer than even Chi-Boy that night, long enough to see him slip the white trapper hat under Wab’s pillow and linger to touch her long hair as she slept. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She scooped up the message, the hairs, and her list and stormed out of the office. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He run some water out of a jug and started soaping up the cap’n’s hair. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered how old his cousins were, and which rooms they were sleeping in, and whether they had red hair, too. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The scraggly, stringy, nasty tangle of hair that run ’round his head jus’ above his ears made it look like his head was wearing a furry little winter coat! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He scratched her neck, feeling the thick winter hair; a few days before, it had been a summer coat and now suddenly the winter preparations had been made. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes are closed, and my dark brown hair is wet and rusty with blood. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark and tangled as usual, but Annabeth thought about the streak of gray he used to have on one side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

About two-fifteen she entered Minnie Franken’s beauty parlor, stayed an hour, and came out with her hair pinned up in tight curls and a silk scarf around her head and tied under her chin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hands are dirty, and he swipes away long cords of black hair spilling in front of his eyes with his forearm. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Shut up,” Nancy hissed, her face even brighter red than her hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her hand through his hair, lifting it out of his eyes, and he could see how skinny her arm was, almost like it was just bone and skin. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The female scythe tightened her grip on the handle of a machete and brushed back her dark hair with her free hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If you looked at each thing, you would admire that thing—the hair, the color, the shape. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bleeding from somewhere on top of his head too; I could see the red trickling down from his salt-and-pepper gray hair. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The women didn’t want anybody on the street to be able to see them getting their hair done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thread my hands into his hair and kiss him without thinking, and The Sims’ music and chatter fades into the background, not nearly as loud as the thud of Ben’s heartbeat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Grandma ran her hand along her head, brushing her hair back, cool. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She looked up at Petra through a broken curtain of hair. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“All your girlfriends had long flowing hair,” she said, her tone thick with accusation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I washed, brushed my hair and we started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But when she opened the door, it was to a small, plump woman whose gray hair peaked out from under a close- fitting black felt hat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He played soccer, a cool sport at my school, and had wavy brown hair that almost touched his shoulders. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I often unraveled my hair and wore it loose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course—he broke the rhythm of the milking long enough to shove his hair out of his face—of course what I really need is a brain transplant. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Hazel talked, her hair floated around her face in a cloud—like brown earth and gold dust in a miner’s pan. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cleotilde pushed at her hair, a mass of tight coils, and adjusted her glasses, as though first preparing herself before she presented her passport and license. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Father President,” said Brother Louis, “I shall of course do as you command, but may I know why you need the child’s hair?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As his father prepares to write an article — he has an inkstone out, and a wolfs hair maobi — his mother prepares to speak up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm going so fast that the water is up to my chest before Freak gets my attention, he's tugging at my hair with both hands. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

This small, fair-skinned woman with long, straight hair came up to me, and looked me up and down. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Because one of them was unmistakably Sherm-like: nice-looking, with curly hair and—she didn’t know what made people look like one another, she realized. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like all of them, he was tall, but he wore a tidy beard, and his long blond hair showed gray at the temples. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Frank rubbed his hand across his buzz-cut hair as if some ghosts might have invaded his scalp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The woman sitting on the counter didn’t remark on the change of hair color. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gorgons were hard to miss, with their colorful snake hair and their bright green Bargain Mart vests. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Long black hair sinks into the grass, becoming one with the dirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny Frank Glassman, with his tightly curled hair, was a dead ringer for Harpo Marx. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand it,” he says, raking his long fingers along his hair. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Cat thought it must be dyed and wondered why he had not dyed his hair as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“For how long, Jane? For a few minutes, while you smooth your hair—which is somewhat dishevelled; and bathe your face—which looks feverish?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The crowded tent was hot, and sweat plastered limp yellow hair to her broad, homely face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What if my brother had landed on the goal line with the left side of his hair singed off? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the money and grabbed her hair with both hands. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my hair against the glass like the tank was a genie’s lamp and the action would stir up some magic. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And he gently pulled the cap back to show me your bright red hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Clots of wet hair lay all about: dark hair, light hair, short hair, long hair, and two pale braids. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran into the bathroom and rummaged through the medicine chest until she found a pair of nail scissors with which to chop out the offending hair. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” she says, pulling the cuff of her sleeve down to obscure his view of the bracelet, a carefully woven braid of her hair entwined with his. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His words slurred, his voice made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Corporal took off his hat and pushed back his hair. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

His soft brown hair that my fingers love to explore. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy didn’t know how she braided hair that short. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That privilege was reserved for a small group of girls...girls with freshly curled hair, crisp clean pinafores and new silk hairbows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while, if you looked very closely, you could see a bushy head of hair poking through the ground. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And there Henry is, in the flesh, as classically handsome as ever in his tailored three-piece suit, all tousled sandy hair and high cheekbones and a soft, friendly mouth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she went off to join her siblings from the Athena cabin—-a dozen boys and girls with blond hair and gray eyes like hers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

With her bosoms hanging out and her hair colored Gold Nugget. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had a beautiful mane of long black hair and wore tight jeans, makeup, and Hawaiian shirts, and he carried a knife in his back pocket. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And then a wail that curdles my blood and makes my hair stand on end. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Prince had refused to cut his hair and wouldn’t be joining the team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was rubbing her eyes with one hand and trying to get a snarl out of her hair with the other. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As sure as I was dressed, my hair looked good, and the dance was going on right around the corner, I knew I wasn’t going to the RKO Theatre with my father. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Weeks before, an older white woman standing in line behind them at the grocery store had said, “Your hair is so beautiful, can I touch it?” and Ifemelu said yes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He rakes his hand through his hair, and his mouth sort of twists. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Not like my boring hair that just hangs there. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

More than the sight of her, I missed her caresses—the wind she sent through canyons and ravines to sweep through my hair every morning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’d come over to borrow something, from me: a pot, a hair dryer. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood runs from his mouth to his forehead and hair and drips onto the floor beneath him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked at her closely, with an intimacy and seriousness that did not seem to embarrass him—this somber man—then tucked a strand of blond hair in behind her ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sandi leaned her elbows on the vanity and watched her mother comb her dark hair in the mirror. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It took a sincere effort not to roll my eyes at her, though she wouldn’t have even noticed as she walked out of the cafeteria with her hair dripping over her face. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Brian was shorter than me and just as skinny, with freckles across his nose and sandy red hair that fell into his eyes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Humble runs his hand through hair that is no longer there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jazz finished braiding the last patch of hair I had left. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sky-blue ribbons in my hair, my Watchtower held tight in my white-gloved hand, the blue linen dress a friend of my grandmother's has made for me stopping just above my knees. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, somewhere in all that complexity was the little lock of hair on which everything depended. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took off his police cap and she saw that his hair was short and stiff, groomed with hair tonic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t shaved for a year, though they cut his hair short, whenever they feel like it, for lice they say. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed a ghostly imitation of Danny, except that his hair was black and his eyes were dark. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Is straightening your hair a form of self-hatred? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me, I felt Martin grab a few loose strands of my hair and begin to twirl them around his fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her fingers slide through her hair and wrap around it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Thursday night, June 30, heat unbearable, Santicld brought us some paper fans We’ve found a great new hiding place, my hair! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall and slender and always wore black dresses that matched the color of her straight, long hair. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I got black hair, so does that mean I'm black on the inside? Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then without hesitating, I cut off my hair, watching with regret the long flaxen curls fall to the ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We lifted her as gently as possible,” Geyer said, “but owing to the decomposed state of the body, the weight of her plaited hair hanging down her back pulled the scalp from her head.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Angela's golden hair was tied in a knot on the nape of her neck. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his hands is in my hair and the other one is gripping my waist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But my stubborn curls kept going up instead of down, and I was cursing the good Lord above for giving me hair that would’ve been better suited to sheep. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His hair in the sunlight was the rusty red of a robin’s breast. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

What did you do when somebody’s hair caught fire? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her hair is lank and greasy, and she has a sore on her lip. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My hair was only slightly shorter, but I passed the first inspection. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an unusual looking white man, his face young, almost unlined, but his hair completely gray and his eyes so pale as to be almost colorless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her son's beard had grown in redder than his auburn hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Long hair floated out from under her straw hat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the dormitory opens, and Tris walks in, hair unkempt and eyes wild. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One of the descriptions she read was of a girl who sounded to me like some sad welfare case, in the sorry way her clothes and hair were described. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at a teenaged boy with familiar wavy reddish-brown hair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan wears a fashionable riding ensemble, her hair curled and her creases knife sharp even in the humidity. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Emma skipped combing her hair, because she wanted to be the first one down to the kitchen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Curious, Koffi leaned forward slightly to see what was inside it, and what she saw made the hair on her arms stand on end. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She ran her dark fingers over her close-cropped hair and sighed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pushing the hair back from my face and tracing the line of my jaw with his finger, he says, “With you I’d be happy anywhere.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Brushing metal bits from her hair, Ruby walked over to the truck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man with bushy black hair leaped out and, seeing her, he practically skipped back to where she was. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I walk along the gravel path that divides the back lawn, neatly, like a hair parting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One stripped off the ruins of her gown and smallclothes, and another bathed her and washed the sticky juice from her face and her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He smoothed back her hair with one hand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned down, and, with delicate fingers, she tenderly pushed the hair from Tristran's face. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would stay beside me while Miss Daisy washed and pressed my hair and put real curls in it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He sees small children with fair hair like Oliver. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was my own, the very one I’d looked upon in the stream when Bear had made me cut my hair and wash my face. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She called them flying rats and said one got caught in her hair once and went crazy clawing at her scalp. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She got blond curly hair and blue eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His black hair was buzzed close to his head, his face smooth and youthful like Deborah’s except for his brow, which was creased from decades of scowling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lina taught us how to roll our hair, and how to curtsy if we met a king. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Tell them, Daddy. This is our house now!” the older of the two sisters said, tossing her disheveled hair back with a flick of her hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he reached the little cleft where the road came through, the afternoon wind struck him and blew up his hair and ruffled his shirt. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, she flipped her hair over her shoulder and I thought Burl was going to melt into a puddle right there in the gravel driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The red ribbon did make his hair look quite colorful, a little like the red lining around the scales of a black snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember quite clearly what he looked like: tall, slightly stooped, dark hair cut short, brown eyes that seemed to focus two inches behind the bridge of my nose, and that acne. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse with the red hair calls you sweetie because she can't remember your name. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hugged me, and I breathed in the sweet orange scent of her hair dressing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hair on my arms had been completely singed off. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was sort of a blonde, but you could tell she dyed her hair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes watered as she wove the hair together, which means she was doing a good job. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A small man with round glasses, big cheeks, and a ring of thin brown-gray hair was looking at her as if she were doing something very peculiar. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He could have AIDS. And he is cutting your hair, which is like cutting a living tissue. Maybe I’m being paranoid, being a mother, but you just can’t be too safe these days. ...” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, Sam has brown hair and very very pretty green eyes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But in my dreams I had long, silvery hair. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Rain matting the hair over his collar, forming a little pool in the space between his boots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face looms across the screen, the same wide sparkling eyes, her curly hair longer than I remember it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He shines, around the noggin, like a flashing light, having no hair at all to dim his lustre.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her through the mirror, the tip of her tongue sticking out of her mouth, concentrating, weaving the hair slowly, trying her best not to mess up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her mother gave her hand a tender squeeze and pressed her lips against the girl’s black hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fire bloomed on my clothes, singeing my hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Fair skinned with straight jet-black hair pulled into a tight, severe bun. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She sighed, pulled her hair back into a ponytail, and snapped a rubber band around it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was exactly like Rachel’s sketch—Luke around nine years old, with blond hair and a big smile and two missing teeth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I could never date a man who spends more time on his hair than I do,” she’d say. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He scratched his hair, and ghost lice crept over his fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had always taught me to tackle one small goal at a time—holding a brush between my toes, lifting that brush all the way to my head, running the brush through my hair. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She used to wear her hair in a ponytail. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She has curly black hair and olive skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Giving me a hair toss and a wink, she hurries into the house. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I find Miss Celia’s finally managed to get herself out of bed, wash her hair, and put all that makeup on again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The door to the lounge opened and Principal Hornstein hurried out, smoothing the wisps of gray hair around his head. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence the way that Julian pulled puzzle pieces out of Nadia's hair. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of the few places where you can get really good camel’s hair.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was trying to remember when Nicole had touched my hair. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Lie, I thought, reaching up to smooth a stray piece of hair back from my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Rose-Meta opposes the idea that kinky hair is inferior. Her philosophy is that there is beauty in everyone,” I read. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was braided like Zoe’s now, so you could actually see her face. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of those big fullbacks they have—I don’t even know his name—ran up and grabbed Victor by the hair. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, a heavy black Bludger came pelting toward him; he avoided it so narrowly that he felt it ruffle his hair as it passed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, and more basilisks flew from his hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that’s exactly what he looked like—long neck, pointed nose, and his hair stuck up in a crest.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Isannah had wandered off because a passing clergyman had seen the sunlight on her hair and was asking her to say the shorter catechism as proof that she was as pious as she was beautiful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A headset microphone was clamped over his greasy wiry hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His perfectly combed hair, khaki pants, and loafers with no socks made him look twenty years older than he really was. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All there is is the girl with the sunshine hair and the killer voice breathing and being in front. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I noticed her hair wasn’t in the usual crown of braids. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fistful of my hair, again near the scalp, for leverage, and yanked me upright, then dragged me toward the bathroom. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She chewed on a lock of her hair to help her think. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at her dim face, the forehead capped with curly black hair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She comes up to me under a streetlamp and I see her eyes, large and gleaming with wet, and her hair dusted with sleet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman has some pink rollers in her hair and a sea of curls hangs down to the sides of her face. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit there while Mami styles her hair and puts on her makeup in the bathroom. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Noodles had literally redrawn the whole thing perfectly, every muscle, every hair. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Bride and groom were sitting uneasily side by side, Ira stiff in the heavy embroidered sari, white flowers in her hair, very pale. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother combed through my hair with her fingers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The subtleties within his hair blended so softly, yet created strong variation. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was a sternlooking witch who wore her hair in a tight bun; her sharp eyes were framed with square spectacles. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I realised for the first time that his head was shaved all over, and he had no hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The world could have ended, and he would not have turned a hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He wore a bottle-green dress and bloodred lipstick, and his hair was dyed coppery orange. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She took great care in fixing her hair just right. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rain'd gummed a loop of her beautiful hair to her smooth forehead. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Your hair... it’s darker. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked for you in a crowd, or thought I saw you from the back.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pull the headphones wide, hoping to drop them over Jason’s ears, but as my hands come close, his hair tickles the underside of my wrist and surrounds my fingers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so lovely that he seemed to shed a brilliant radiance and his long, black hair hung loose far down his back. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There an extremely tall man with long black hair was picking up a file drawer that had fallen to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a sudden step forward, grabbed me by the hair, and pulled my face to his. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m glad for the heat; maybe it can cover some of my blush, which is already threatening to burn up my face as I study his damp hair and bared muscles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tobias emerges from the men's bathroom a few minutes later, his red Amity shirt replaced by a black T-shirt, and his short hair glistening with water. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I have her locked in a tower and never let her out. She’ll have to grow her hair and escape through the window if she ever wants to leave. Please, Paul.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Look at her clothes and her hair and her glasses and her luggage with the wheels. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A small man with a birdlike face and fluffy hair, he read a lengthy poem dedicated to Soraya, jotted down on hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was just charging along beside the train, her black hair bouncing behind her in a ponytail. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Drops from wet hair drip down my back. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The next day after lunch we ran back to the cottage to brush our hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The whisper was barely audible; her lips were an inch from his ear, her head bent so low that her long hair shielded his face from the onlookers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We both have long brown hair pulled into a braid. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Petra’s hat was pulled down almost to her eyebrows, and her hair fanned out in a black halo around the bottom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her long, thick hair is piled on top of her head and she’s wearing a bikini top and shorts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And the hair twined and blew and became a ladder upon which the guests might ascend, laughing, into the House. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze blew a strand of hair over her ear, and I gently patted it back into place. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Customs officer was pale, even paler than Mom, with green eyes, auburn hair, and a five o’clock shadow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their hair trickles blood and sweat, their clothes drip, their faces red and rigid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wasn't much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn't shave too close or comb his hair very well.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found Aunt Loma sitting at the kitchen table, her long curly red hair still loose and tousled, the dirty breakfast dishes pushed back to clear a space. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair was still ridiculously long, cascading down her back and almost touching the seat cushion. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her manner was as calm and unruffled as her hair. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached, the black man reached down and caught Rufus by the hair as though to hit him again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have all my teeth and all my hair, two fine workhorses, a four-room house, and twenty acres of land beside. I work hard and I do not smell all that bad, eh, little Chaya?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could change your name, age, sex, race, height, weight, voice, hair color, and bone structure. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was tall, with her hair pulled up under a hairnet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She has taken off her make-up and her jewels; the vermilion with which he’d stained her part at the end of the ceremony has been rinsed from her hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nali was standing right in front of the mobile home, still in her pajamas, her long hair not yet woven into a bun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She is wearing a gown the color of unripe mulberries, and her hair is pulled slightly back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In my new Remake Room in Special Defense, my prep team slaps me into my Mockingjay suit, arranges my hair, and applies minimal makeup before my coffee’s even cooled. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her silver hair flowed around her youthful face like a river of moonlight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The windows are steamed, Led Zeppelin is in the stereo, and when I lift my head up to fling my hair away from my face, I open one eye and gasp. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry saw a man lying before him, pale-skinned, slightly freckled, with a mop of fair hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had long blond hair, but she couldn’t have been the woman I saw in the Civic hauling out of my parking lot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I dropped the comb and began tearing apart the thatch of hair with my fingers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Thick and numbing, like an animal’s den, a mix of blood and scorched hair and excrement and the sweet-sour odor of moldering flesh—the stink of the kill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker wears a long sweater as loose as her hair around her face. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse fought the centrifugal force and flipped onto my panel, straddling me, his curly blond hair hanging in my face, his body pressed against mine. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cold travels across my body, making the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And we need to get to work on Haley’s hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It looked like her hair was on fire. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

His arms wrapped around her waist, cinching her to him, and she put her hands in his hair, feeling the silken strands between her fingers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His white hair hung limp around his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bending over the keyboard, a long strand of brown hair keeps falling down into her eyes, and she keeps trying to hook it behind her left ear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing these old jeans and a baggy T-shirt, and her long hair is tied back and she's probably sweating, but she still looks like a movie star. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing my uncle never mastered was my hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a wind that offered no relief from the heat, but it caught Lillian’s hair and pushed it softly back, an auburn shining pennant, a surrogate windsock, revealing a long, elegant neck. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She colored her hair to be lighter and never spoke about Arman and drank tea with her pinky up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had a thick body, heavy shoulders, a long, bony face, and thinning hair. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She went straight to the ladies’ room and combed her hair and tucked her shirt into her jeans. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on her waist and bury my fingers in her hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The penance was to wear the hair shirt of a certain dead religious that we knew of,” he went on at last, defeated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wiki was dark brown, with her glistening black hair cinched in a stiff ponytail. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought he would be hairy everywhere else too, but his hair was cut shorter than Sohrab’s, and he had pale, hairless arms. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A breeze tossed a piece of my hair across my face, and he reached out and brushed it away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is pressed and curled real tight at the ends. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As he watched Baby walk off down the street he kept pulling the straggly bangs of his hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the man who was leading them up to the castle was wearing furs of a different sort: sleek and silver, like his hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“He puts his hair into them,” George says. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Mother walked over and brushed the whitewash out of what was left of his hair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wraithlike in a toweled robe, her hair wet from the shower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He has darkish tan skin and longish dark hair that’s not styled with goop like some of the other boys’. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

That night her mother showed her how to pull back her hair and slip the solid blue headband over her head. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Wisps of hair framed it and looked to be in motion, caught in an imaginary breath of wind. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The roots of my hair screamed as I tugged on them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So here I am, my hair dancing about like whiskers behind me, and my hands flapping like wings, flying above the world until Pa summons me away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to go exotic, with a flower-print sarong, black hair loose and a hibiscus flower behind my ear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nguyen saw him grab a woman by the hair and throw her to the ground, then fire his pistol in the air. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He went around with his hair tied back in a ponytail, like a rock musician from the seventies, and talked a lot about things like reincarnation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple rinsed her hair out and got out of the shower, making her way back to the room in her gray terry cloth robe. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pita looked refreshed with their hair slicked back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He tousled his daughter’s hair and sat on the couch. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Layla gave it to Ivy for her tenth birthday and said the color looked good with Ivy’s pale red hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She ran down the stairs, a streak of black hair and white skin, coming to a sudden and graceful stop in front of me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ralph pushed back the tangle of fair hair that hung on his forehead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t quite sure we had stopped until he reached back and touched my hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She picked at her hair and gnawed on the mole below her lip. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The breeze caught my hair as I pumped the swing higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His hair was white, and his face looked gentle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I twirl a small section of dripping hair around my index finger and try and force myself to look away and out across the water. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The officer had thinning brown hair and pale skin and looked to be in his late fifties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They played cards, slept, combed their hair, huddled in groups, and preoccupied themselves in general feminine behavior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can wear my hair how I want. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched Tally’s hair, tangled and knotted from two weeks of camping out and riding all day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had red hair, a red beard, and a red hairy chest. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They nip at my fingertips and press against my body, wings sliding across the back of my neck, feet tearing at my hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she’d brushed her hair a hundred strokes every day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an appointment with Luce later in the day and my hair was washed, my underpants fresh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had been a cute freckle-faced girl with beautiful red hair. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I twist my hair around my finger, stalling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl has red hair swaying to her bottom, a skirt falling to her calves. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A handsome Italian guy named Rocco, he was a charmer with dark brown hair and light brown eyes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Clean-shaven, with a square jaw, dark ringlets for hair, and smiling eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I just stare ahead at the woman right in front of me whose back is to me, so all I can see is her twisted hair pulled back into a bun. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

One was taller and one was shorter, but they had the same dark hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Doon saw a curl of brown hair and two wide frightened eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His sandy blond hair turned grey prematurely, which many thought made him look even more dignified. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see their hands and newly washed, wavy hair in the light from the door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cadaver came screeching up to the curb in her yellow Volkswagen, with her wild red witch hair flying all over the place. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I spent over an hour tweaking my avatar’s hair and trying on different skins to wear to the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on his head and ruffled his hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hate my hair, but I let it grow long because I hate my ears more. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All of the Kappa Zeta girls dress like they just stepped out of a Gap ad, their nails are perfectly manicured, their hair perfectly curled under at the tips. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The woman’s hair was damp and curled wildly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked younger than the other guests, always wore a pair of shorts, and had bushy hair with a parting at the side that stood higher than Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl’s eyes had been gray and clear and the dark hair floated, drifted lightly over the face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spin and let my blades cut through the neck of an old white woman lunging for my throat, her stringy gray hair hanging loose. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, when her hair began to thin and silver, to give it body, she wore her jet-black bun pinned to her small, silver head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she says no to me, my mom spends a lot of Saturday morning in her bedroom mirror, picking her own hair into a huge black and beautiful dome. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They’re in my hair, on my skin, crystalized wings fluttering all over me, trying to crawl across my eyes and into my ears and even up my nose. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did he seem to approve of my snarled, shoulder-length hair or the way I smelled after having gone three weeks without bathing or changing my clothes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay back and her hair fanned out against the water. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Without ever a pat of the hair, a rush to change clothes or a quick application of paint, with no gesture whatsoever, she rippled with sex. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And as she saw her mother punching away at her keyboard one night, four different pens stuck in her hair, Candice thought, If the news won’t tell the right stories, I will. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I did, he took a handful of my hair and held it lightly off the back of my neck for a moment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On the first day, when I walked in and saw all those boys staring at me like I was a piece of hair in their soup, it sure felt good to see Yolanda’s upside-down-Y smile. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was only nine, but how old did you have to be to sweep up old hair? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I knew she had washed my hair in rosemary, for the scent still clung to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jeans and a green T-shirt and her long brown hair was braided with river grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The door was pulled open by a woman with haunted eyes and thin, oily black hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a moment he emerged, his hair disheveled, holding the silver cocktail dress. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her hair was piled up very, very high on her head. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The hair stood up on the back of my neck as I vainly looked among the branches and into the tangled undergrowth all around. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She complimented them on their flattering, carefully chosen outfits and waited as they had their hair fashioned, their eyebrows trained, and their slight imperfections masked by powder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His face was chiselled and bronze, his eyes black as basalt, his curly dark hair glistening with oil. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ishtar flicked her loose hair from her face, and starlight sparkled within her locks. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She did our hair, helped pick out our outfits, gave us advice but still let us make decisions for ourselves. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her blue highlights have faded, and now she has streaks of faded yellowish green in her hair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Water splashes on my ankles when she washes her hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom mirror, he saw that his hair had been streaked white too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others would say “Are you from Jamaica?” as though only foreign blood could explain such bounteous hair that did not thin at the temples. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whisper had taught her how to braid her hair into two thick cornrows, because neither Bitter nor Aloe had any idea how to. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My hair resisted my organization efforts almost as much as Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Dari stood behind Joe, gripping his hair with one hand, face pale with horror. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s always touching your hair or fiddling with your buttons when she asks you something. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The boy was about fifteen or sixteen, with shaggy dark hair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nico pushes his hair out of his face and sinks farther into his seat. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She paused with her hands in my hair. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect this girl with spiky hair and no concern for personal space to know about microbiomes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aru dramatically flipped her hair over her shoulder, which was a bad idea, because it was still damp from whale spit and ended up smacking her in the eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ruby appeared in an arch of the arcade, looking like one more orchid in the forest, her slim form a stem upholding a bloom of riotous hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wears her smooth blond hair neatly coiled into waves, exactly like you see on the big screen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey walks around to face her, reaching out tentatively to touch her hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As they went in, under the light I saw white hands, wavy hair, white faces, grimacing, gesturing, talking. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The baker caught her by her hair, and the midwife began shouting about how apprentices with nothing to do but spy needed a beating and more work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what they are,” said Charles, pushing the dirty hair from his eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach the house’s gate, my hair is wet, limp, and heavy against my forehead and cheeks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her hair is pulled back in a ponytail, but the shorter strands have strayed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s lovely,” she said, brushing back several strands of hair that were drifting in front of her face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She longed to get home and have a long, cold shower, put her hair up in a satin bonnet, and lie down on her couch with her laptop. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They think that except for the red hair, which he got from his father and which they don’t mention, Branwell looks like her, and judging from the photos that I’ve seen, I would agree. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the kitchen shears that her stepmother had left on the table and clipped away the uneven ends of her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the chaplain’s clerk, a slender Irishman with prematurely gray hair and gray, melancholy eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark hair almost covered thick black eyebrows that shadowed a thin face. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother cut my hair to my chin and made me sleep in pin curls all night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For all the years he’s known Ms. Dale—and he’s known her through five different hair colors and four school years—he’s never once seen her alone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There's a guy there at the window, a man in a tweed jacket, about forty years old with a big head of wild hair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Beatty, who wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had her hair done at the beauty parlor over in Winnemucca every week, told Mom she needed to discipline her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph had aged visibly since the last time many of the people in the courtroom had seen him; I could hear murmurs about how his hair had grayed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to brush her hair away from her face and my hand came back sticky with blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her white hair was plastered to her head, and her housecoat was drenched. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When she was up by Fayge’s side, she could smell a scent on her hair and dress, like roses and wood shavings after a long rain. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and absorbed the blond waxy smell of his hair before she stood him at arm's length. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think she has since we cut up Renaldo, and that was only because she didn’t want to get frog guts in her hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Pity the fool,” he says, and ruffles my hair on his way out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to brush the hair away from the left side of her face. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He had noticed the minute she entered the Council chambers that she had cut off her hair at chin-level since the last time he had seen her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry could see what was funny this time: Professor McGonagall, with her hair in a tight bun, looked as though she had never let her hair down in any sense. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Taylor scooped up seawater in a large shell and poured it over the ends of her hair, rinsing out the mud. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everything hurts—my skin, my bones, my fingernails, even the roots of my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He ran his hands through his black thinning hair streaked with gray. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It even had a bunch of braided black yarn sewed on for hair that was supposed to look like plaits. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In six months, her hair had turned as gray as lint. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lucky Girl pushed her black hair off her face and stared at Pima defiantly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was also that same fiery color. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came after me and caught me by the hair. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it’s so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My hair was receding and streaked with gray, and lately I’d traced little crow's-feet etched around the corners of my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If a girl didn’t have enough hair to do the trick, she used rags, rats, or switches to fill up the insides of the ear muffs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not stupid,” he says, pushing his hands through his hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a young man with red hair that sprang up all over his head in spurts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerrold was a lean, tall youth with sun streaks in his hair and laughing blue-green eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could see Puny-Tail just ahead of her, that little twist of hair in the back of her head like a snake tongue. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She moved in jerky birdlike twitches, her coffee-brown eyes darting restlessly, her fingers clawing at her plumage, her earlobes, her shaggy red hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sam ran his fingers through his hair, trying to take in the wonder of having a namesake. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had the heavy black makeup thing going on, shoe-polish black hair, black clothes, black boots, pale skin. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The woman, whose ears also protruded, but were partially obscured by her hair cut in a bob, gave a gay shout of a laugh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On her head, a battered wreath of golden laurels glinted in her roadkill hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were all scratching away like mad at the hair on the backs of their necks! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The colors favored her dark hair and the smooth cream of her skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Too busy plucking out her chin hairs, is she?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She began to eat more, began to brush her own hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She put the wig back on and began to brush it; the wavy hair, parted in the middle, fell to her chin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hair was slicked back and he wore, in lieu of his service station uniform, a baby-blue leisure suit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His face is caved in all around his eyes and his hair is shiny black with the sweat running from the top of his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or the day Dylan Parker showed up at school with his high-top sneakers and Patriots jersey and his hair spiked into a faux-hawk and Franny called to say, “That new kid is really weird, right?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I sobbed as I lay on the pillow, my hair a mass of mud and silt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had on a dark shirt and jeans, her face was tanned and her hair brown; she was confident nothing would give her away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Pine Mountain, if a boy showed up to class with facial hair like Joey had, they’d take him into the bathroom and make him shave on the spot with a nasty old, used razor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I do,” Cletus answered, sipping at the coffee, a strand of his stringy hair nearly dunking itself. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night, in a dream, I saw my own corpse, hair stiff with ice and eyes wide open. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki would esteem her all the more for a few bells in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s whistling ‘Straighten Up and Hy Right’ and cutting all of Byron’s hair off!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for permission, Emery pulls the band out of my hair and scratches her fingers through all the hair spray, shaking my hair like she’s trying to bring it back to life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The music made the hair on Harry’s neck stand up, and yet it was not unpleasant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Their hair has been moussed to peaks with some of Tía Inés’s hair foam. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was showing a few signs of age, a white hair here and there in his coat, a certain stiffness in his gait. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Celia’s hair had turned a strange, moldy mixture of yellow and brown, but it was still green at the tips. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He saw his fist tightly gripping the clump of white matted hair he had ripped off the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I dip my head in the sink, rinse out the conditioner I left in overnight, and ring my hair dry with a towel. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stanley, who sits next to me, holds a boy baby, with brown skin and a few tufts of black hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked a loose hair behind my ear and handed me a tissue from the front pocket of her housedress. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They seemed to like her mother’s long hair. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know much about that. But I can promise you that your hair looks darling.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few curls of light brown hair peek from beneath the brim of her hat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Laura waved at a short, pudgy man and a woman with gray hair pulled into a bun. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dad pushed the hair off my forehead and kissed it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Plenty of Jews had blue eyes and blond hair, and many Germans and Austrians, including Adolf Hitler, had dark eyes and hair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the girl with the red hair comes in to turn down my bed, her eyes widen at the mess. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry smoothed down his hair across the top of his head. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He shot a nasty look sideways at Harry, whose untidy hair had always been a source of great annoyance to Uncle Vernon. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

One is a taciturn doughy man with blond hair and a mustache, who I don’t much like. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would rub water on his head and take his time to carefully arrange his hair. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I combed my hair, put on my socks, buckled my leather shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had even brushed Lucy’s hair, so that it lay on the pillow in its usual sunny ripples. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve come to love my hair, but at the time, when I wore it as an Afro, it sparked a lot of unwanted conversation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She kept pushing back her damp, whitish hair with the palm of her hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At all times, Philip was impeccably groomed, his shock of rich brown hair combed neatly, his demeanor serious and forthright. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair and skin, even her eyelashes, are an icy white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From where he stood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant’s hair was very much like the hair of the old king. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls gossiping, girls fixing their hair, girls primping. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She told Pa all about it, and she asked him, “You don’t like golden hair better than brown, do you?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed my face and braided my hair like I did every morning. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Ma tips her head back and laughs so hard her halo of hair shakes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instead I go upstairs and wash away the layers of makeup and conditioners and dyes and then go down to dry my hair by the fire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I figured I’d have it back together long about the time I started growing chin hair. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wet my black hair and combed it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had deep golden hair curling around his ears and at his neck. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wooden waves of her hair dissolve into the timbers of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I colored in his hair, drew on ears and lips, but the nose got special attention—it was giant, pendulous, overpowering. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I turn up the stereo and let my hair loose and swing it around and clutch an invisible microphone and dance and sing in front of the mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair soft and shiny but not styled. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I caught a girl’s eyes, a few years younger than me, hair and clothing rumpled and dirty. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She combed an unruly lock of hair back into place behind her ear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There she is, chopping vegetables, unaware of her posture, unaware of the wildness of her hair, even unaware that I am staring at her with so much love. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His nose was flat and his face was broad; his head was a mass of wiry gray hair. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in black dress suits circled the floor, “swinging black Amazons with bushy hair and teeth necklaces.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He glided a hand laxly into her loose hair, twisting those soft yellow strands around his thin fingers which felt fragile and likely to snap, as if made of hollow, unhinged porcelain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora’s mouth is warm and tastes horrifying, like peach schnapps, and she bites his lip and messes up his hair for good measure. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He gives me a quick, almost angry glance, and for a second, I see them in his eyes, this lost family, flashes of fiery hair and freckles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fleur had come out of the cottage, her long silver hair flying in the breeze. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He sat down, ran his fingers through his hair, put his elbows on his desk, and leaned toward me slightly with a strange look on his face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She looked like an old magpie, with her gray hair scraped back and a pointed nose that didn't seem to fit her small, wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She is popping the vuvv hookup nodes off her forehead and shaking out her hair. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell your uncle that the hour has come. That the mermaids have bleached hair.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then I spent another thirty minutes on my hair. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These were the ladies who drowned their shame and floated in living people’s houses with their hair undone to show their everlasting despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her older sisters were wearing their hair alike. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He stood there dumbly as she walked away from him, barefoot across the lawn, and he watched her darkened hair swing heavily across her shoulders, drenching her blouse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't have any experience. Except for the makeup. I could also do your hair, if, you know..." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mama had let me sleep in rag rollers the night before, so I had big corkscrew curls instead of my usual pigtails, and she put bobby pins in my hair, crisscrossing two on each side. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I raked my hair with my free hand as I wrestled with how to explain what I meant. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred around them, ripping strands of hair from her braid. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was delicious, but we both hated to see those long yellow-white hairs floating around the vegetables. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then, quietly, “I can already kind of see your hair, though.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A glimmer of red catches my eye, and I look across the cavern to where Keenan leans against a bunk watching me, his hair like fire in the torchlight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When one middle-aged banker with a receding chin, thinning hair, and reedy fingers showed up for dinner one time too many, she heard the doors of her future slamming all around her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She sighed, and smoothed her hair with her hand; and he saw then that her hand was trembling and that her calm deliberation was all a frenzied pose. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had wavy auburn hair, which was cut above the shoulders, and greenish eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was bright red, and his face was covered in freckles. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Half a small face, topped with muddy brown hair and masked with thick metal-rimmed glasses, jutted out from behind Mrs. Trotter’s mammoth hip. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now the two of us watched the snow fall: barefoot, barelegged Georgie, half naked, with feathers in his hair; me with my long braid, and Lissa’s sweatshirt over Miss Lilian’s flowered skirt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a glittering gold, her hair the deep green of ivy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her white hair shudders like an angry cloud as she smears peanut butter onto the bread, all the while mumbling to herself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the hairs around a thumb and tugged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was tall and fine looking, a handsome man with prematurely gray hair. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also yapping about how nice my hair looked, especially those three braids in the back. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

His brown hair was tied up in a bun. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair smelled like oranges and magnolia blossoms. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair worn down to her shoulders softens her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Madam reigned over her end of the table with the occasional flutter of her fan, the wave of hair above her brow threatening to crash at any moment. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a tall, bony-faced man with a mustache and a lot of red hair. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of songs on the radio about hippie girls with flowers in their hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this Wang Lung’s eldest son came in dressed as he had been in his red robe and his black jacket and his hair was smooth and his face fresh shaven. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My hair barely touched my shoulders, though part of that was how it curled away at the ends. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Harry approached him, looking up into the face, trying to see past the long, stringy, wire-gray hair and beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Isa came downstairs, she saw Oliver, his hair rumpled on one side, sitting slouched on a stool by the kitchen island, staring at an open book. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect you to like it. Grandfathers never like hair dye.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I sit in between Rani and an old woman whose hair shines like moonlight on the ocean. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I watched him punch and kick her unconscious and then drag her home by her hair, her face scraping and bouncing over the rocks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was short and sturdy, with straw-colored hair tied in a braid. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They fussed for a long time with their front hair, holding up the lamp and looking at their hair in the little looking-glass that hung on the log wall. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m done, I’m calmer, but Max is rubbing his head so hard I’m afraid he’s going to lose hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was tall, with a great deal of wavy black hair and a small mustache. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her pressed hair was in a neat bun on top of her head. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"I'm not a visitor, I'm a sister. And get your germy hands off my hair." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair on my neck stood on end. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not!” said Hermione, brushing her hair out of her eyes and staring hopelessly around for her bag. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But he just said “Sorry” and ruffled his brother’s hair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Janie’s long legs dangled over one arm of the chair and the long braids of her hair swung low on the other side. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Behind her, from out of the earth, emerges a naked and dirty Gabriel Witter, his hair matted with blood and grime. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick, who was a tiny little wizard with a shock of white hair, was carrying an ancient hat and a three-legged stool out of the hall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Jon let go his grip on the girl's hair, and she scuttled backward, away from them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You look fine just the way you are,” she calls back, not even seeing what I’m wearing or how I’ve managed my hair. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if she’s pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a black graduation gown with a white collar sticking out, and her hair is in a tight bun with powder on it to make it gray. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He said that if she wasn’t up to her elbows in the guts of a newly dead animal, she was in the ocean, looking for live ones—salt and microorganisms flowing through her hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Piper blew a strand of hair out of her eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Max rose, ran his hand through his white hair and went to the front of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For another, she had jet-black hair, straight, like a vampire’s. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She pulled a piece of her hair to her nose. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The sights, sounds, and smells of the Sunderbans were as much a part of him as his dark skin and curly black hair. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the packing box where the puppies were she caught the dead scent of Curley’s wife, and the hair arose along her spine. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazelle strokes his hair and whispers something while my mother and Prim go through their meager store of painkillers, the kind usually accessible only to doctors. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face looked just as Piper remembered - green as bile, with a twisted sneer, his seaweed-coloured hair braided with swords and axes taken from dead demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was still paint and glue stuck in his hair from when he was experimenting with fabrics earlier in the day. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A short, trim man with fashionably slicked brown hair walks crisply to the front. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, well-groomed woman in her fifties—Chanel cardigan, pearls at the neckline, hair brushed into a stiff, shoulder-length flip—was talking, in a nasal voice which was oddly familiar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her face and hair were completely white; she seemed to him like a ghost. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She probed gently through his hair until she found where he’d been hurt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s hair was combed back in neat furrows and he wore a pressed guayabera open at the neck. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Farrow said, pushing himself away from the creature and nonchalantly combing a trembling hand through his wild, just-had-sex hair. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A year after Lori was born, Mom and Dad had a second daughter, Mary Charlene, who had coal-black hair and chocolate-brown eyes, just like Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At home, without earmuffs, my hair felt light on my head. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

All you can do is watch her really big hair moving around and wonder how many spiders make their nests in that thing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in late middle age. Fleshy and smooth-skinned. Silver-gray hair. Dressed in expensive clothes, and with traces of a heavy scent around him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I loved a maid as white as winter, with moonglow in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She picked up Archer’s feather, gleaming iridescent green and fuchsia, and ran it along her cheek before tucking it into her hair. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hat down, and Noodles brushed his hair with the palm of his hand. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

His white hair was still feathered in a horrible Disco Age mullet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rain had plastered their hair down over their foreheads. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She concentrated on plugging in her hair straightener—which she’d borrowed from a girl down the hall who was going to be wearing a wig tonight anyway—and laid out her makeup. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I am not. Why did you cut your hair?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps touching her hair in the bun. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The yellow of the dress makes my skin look creamy, and my hair falls in loose waves past my shoulders. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up and blew her hair around. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had red hair and a nose that I call short and she calls pug. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She has a bright pink face and no hair at all. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lee was standing with his back to the group, bareheaded, the white hair flicking in the breeze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like doll hair, very tidy and arranged, as if sewn into place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I move on to mat exercises and after the last crunch lie there spread-eagle and panting, my hair a tangled ball around my red face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her short brown hair is the only thing that makes her look different from other moms at Poplar Springs Middle. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and an invisible rope snaked around my arms and legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her night-black hair was twisted back in two braids that she had pinned up around her head to look like a crown. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Laura sat on their bed and watched them comb out their long hair and part it carefully. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the hair on my arm, the grass pokes easily out of my skin like needles through paper, growing taller and taller. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore green pajamas and her hair was tied back in a puff of curls. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The door creaks open to reveal a woman in a bathrobe, with water dripping down her neck and her hair wrapped in a towel. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A strand of his hair escapes his ponytail, and I watch as he tucks it behind his ear. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is a very pretty woman when she has her long brown hair down, and when she smiles, which is hardly ever. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She digs a shaking hand into her hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The red woman’s robes of deep-dyed scarlet swirled about her, and her coppery hair made a halo round her face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like the one that plays tinkle-tinkle music and the scary man with rainbow paint on his face and hair jumping out. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The wind sighed through the trees and lifted her hair so that it tickled my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His hair was red on one side and white on the other, all matted and filthy from cage and travel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hair, instead of looking silver, looked white. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I remember is waiting with my friends before the music began, watching their fathers snap pictures and their mothers fix their hair. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The clerk, a thin young woman with bobbed hair, asks for his application, reviewing it before handing it to the judge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had, as usual, a runny nose, and his hair was much longer than it had been when Antain saw it last—over a year ago now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tariq wasn’t like some of the other boys, whose hair concealed cone-shaped skulls and unsightly lumps. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The merpeople had grayish skin and long, wild, dark green hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He runs his hands through his hair, gripping his scalp, his neck. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I would have recognized him even if he had shaved his head of thick, wavy black hair—if he had tattooed his cheeks, or pierced his long, straight nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She’s tall, about my age, dark brown hair in a severe crimped bob, a bit old-fashioned. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her pitch-black hair was nice, hairdresser tousled especially for him, and she had small pearls in her earlobes, like a little girl. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring at her right palm, some of her long dark hair spilling in front of her pretty brown face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gran’s hair is short and curly and gray; she’s been wearing it in a permanent wave, Dad says, since the 1970s. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just know: I cut off three feet of blond hair and swore away boys forever because after this happened with Zephyr, my mother died. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her brown hair was short and straight, uneven around the edges as if maybe she had cut it herself and hadn’t tried too hard to make it come out right. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I do their hair every other Tuesday and today is Tuesday, right?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey stepped into the diner, blondish hair wild as a thicket, wearing a short white dress that shone like moonlight against her skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Finally clean, I pull on my robe and head back to bed, ignoring my dripping hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was black, and straight, and long; her skin was as brown as the river. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They wants to put their toes in my curly hair, and get at my money.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the dull thump of her mother’s heartbeat, the lightness of her mother’s breath on her hair, the gentle touch of her mother’s hands stroking down the length of her back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was young, fifteen or maybe sixteen, with shaggy blond hair in need of a good wash and a pair of pouty lips in need of a good kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their hair was gray or white or blonde, too short or too long. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Twirled my newborn hair like the top of an ice cream cone. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed her hair, which had grown long, and went on more cheerfully. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

What badness, what fear or anger or hunger made them hit Djo so hard, made them kick him on the floor, set fire to his hair? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Colorful beads capped the braided tips of her hair, a style she shared with my mother, and large, blackframed eyeglasses covered half of her face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"If only your hair were a bit longer." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You guys don’t know about hair trauma. I am a black woman without her grease. My weave is all kinds of messed up right now,” Nicole said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Riding downtown for the piano recital, I sat in the backseat of the Buick wearing a nice dress and patent leather shoes, my hair in pigtails, experiencing the first cold sweat of my life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside was a painted likeness of a woman with big blue eyes and pale golden hair streaked by silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night, though it was the middle of the week, Ma bathed Laura and Mary all over, and she put up their hair. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Sarai, near as she could tell, looked just as she herself had on the night that he had seen her: with wild hair, and Isagol’s painted black mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rubio straightens his clothes and Feathers smooths out her hair, ready to work. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What with Violet cutting out day work and just doing hair, we did fine. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d always wondered where Red got his nickname, since he didn’t have red hair. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her hair seemed to stretch; she did not say a word. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disturbing hair and eyes, a smile like no other, threatened the ideal of five generations living under one roof. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long black hair spilled down over her right shoulder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” she said, “it took me so long to plait this hair? She had such thick hair.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were carrying baskets, and both had red hair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white man’s red hair told me who he must be. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He used to work for the county road department and for kicks he had painted big orange and white circles with reflective paint all over War Chief’s hair. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took a couple seconds for me to realize where I was, to recognize Fang as the lump in the bed opposite and Faith as the tangle of dark hair on the pillow beside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They look as windblown as I feel, the frenzy of adrenaline in their eyes and their hair askew. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere—the dark glasses, the ironed pants, the pomaded hair. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fair hair was plastered over his eyebrows and he pushed it back. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My wife cuts my hair. What you got to say about that?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Nox ran a hand through his black hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My mom’s hair is disheveled, her eyes wild with fear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He put it on the bed, kissed her tenderly, smoothed her hair with his tiny hand, and straightened the pillows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I dream about Susie, in her black turtleneck and jeans but shorter than she really is, her hair cut into a pageboy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were Sikhs from the Punjab who never cut their hair but tucked it all up under their turbans. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is playing with my hair, and to make him stop, I lean over and pretend to search for something in my bag. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She started tucking her hair back under her paper hat. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine that gold will look nice with Sophia’s silken blond hair. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair was that red, the kind of red that looks okay on everything but people, because a person’s hair is not supposed to be red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The receiving physician's assistant, Mr. Bow, spotted lice in my hair. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-grey hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And so it was a new adventure, relaxing her hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The hairdresser piled my hair high on my head, with loose ringlets cascading over one shoulder, and a white rose pinned behind my ear. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Ah, there’s Penelope!” said Percy, smoothing his hair and going pink again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother hadn’t said how pretty Bebe was—big eyes, high cheekbones, thick black hair swept up into a ponytail—or how young. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each morning before school, my mother would twist and yank on my thick black hair until she had formed two tightly wound pigtails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his hair is curly on top, and her hair is supershort—almost like Uncle Paul’s military haircut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her long brown hair was curled and piled on her head in long ringlets, the style of some past time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale too, a curious light brown matching her silky hair. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men in dark suits, with dark hair and shiny black shoes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, yeah. I mean, the hair helps, too. It’s really dark. But mostly, I look for the arms. Don’t you do that?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now there was a stripe of white hair rising from her forehead, as wide as her hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I heard that the hair on my back bristled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could brush her hair on the way out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the man with the silver hair and broad shoulders and lantern jaw is a lightweight. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She smiled, and he saw that she had small even teeth, as white as her eyes and hair were black. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And anyway this girl was no raver, hair pulled back into a simple ponytail, barely any makeup, certainly no piercings I could see. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Now he was small and wizened, with sparse gray tonsured hair. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wetted her palm and smoothed the hair above my ear, then pushed the pin in so that it nicked sharply against my scalp. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pepper-and-salt, and she smiled when she saw him look at her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Ashton smirked, then pushed his hair away from his forehead and held his hand there. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When we’re done, my hair looks so good that I could eat it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A mop of hair hid half his face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows had been very thick and dark, and her scalp showed through the thin hair, in patches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We glance at each other before she twists the ends of her hair and gets started and before I flop down on my desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She stood watching me, her long gray hair caught in the wind like wisps of silver thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had a fine velvet coat and felt hat, but her clothing was in tatters, and her long red hair had begun to fall out in clumps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“He has the sweetest of smiles,” and with one insubstantial hand she stroked the child’s sparse blond hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His hair looked rumpled, as if he hadn’t combed it for a while. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her shiny brown hair is pulled back with a white ribbon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then she trundled back to the window to catch a breeze, if one took a mind to come by, while she combed her hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His nipples were dark, old-man nipples, and his chest hair was grizzled. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was short and muscular with square shoulders and black, close-cropped hair. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Black hair that reached down her back in waves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

All in black, he was a shadow among shadows, dark of hair, long of face, grey of eye. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mabel was on the sidewalk, her dark hair spilling from under a knit cap, her hands in fingerless gloves clasped together. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their little waists rose up tight and slender in the middle, and their cheeks were red and their eyes bright, under the wings of shining, sleek hair. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a photo I have of the day our new president came to visit the monument, I’m standing in front of the house, all made up, my hair in a bouffant style. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch her, she tosses her hair over her shoulders and places her hands on her hips. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am dog hairs from head to foot,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Except the one you made about my hair.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and felt the tears run back into my hair. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could see her brown scalp right through her curly silver hair. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took me to a beauty parlor and I had my hair shingled. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was streaked with gray, and his beard was long and curly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gash was long and crooked, starting a hair under his left eye and ending on the right side of his jaw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh wow, how do you get your hair to do that?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I can't help feeling a little grateful since the last thing I want to do is strip down Haymitch, wash the vomit out of his chest hair, and tuck him into bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, hearing the snip snip snip of the scissors and feeling the thick clumps of long hair hit my nose, tickling me and making me sneeze. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Those are baby pollitos. I’m already big. Mine has hair on it!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She looked me over, from the twigs in my hair, to my ripped skirt, to my bloody knee. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for the drugs to kick in, I dried my clean hair till it was impeccably straight, and fussed over what I would wear tomorrow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her overpowdered hair left a trail behind her that settled like smoke on the carpet. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fever of insomnia fatigued him so much that one dawn he could not recognize the old man with white hair and uncertain gestures who came into his bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Will twisted his fingers into the young man’s thick, damp hair and wrenched back as hard as he could. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the most beautiful white hair Marly had ever seen. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured a nodding head, long blonde hair fluttering, somewhere behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The baby let out a growl, raising the hairs on Kaede’s neck. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Amaroq was but five feet away and she could see each hair on his long fine nose, he gave the grunt-whine. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got my hair all wild, and I splattered some red paint on my clothes.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother could see that I really wasn’t in one piece after all, so she listened quietly, stroking my hair as I talked, but gradually I could feel her stiffen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red veil goes on, though, covering my damp hair, my head, which has not been shaved. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look over, taking in the curly brown hair, hazel eyes identical to mine, the familiar smile. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Ash flew around us like snow, collecting on our hair and sticking to our wet clothes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Instead he winds my hair around his fist and slices straight through it at the nape of my neck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin was as dark and shiny as a wet street, and so was her hair. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’d sit on her bed, polish in hand, hair high on her head in curlers, wearing the silky slip she loved so much she hand-washed it each night. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The class stood and Charlotte flipped her hair around. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His hair has grown out so it flips at his ears, and he wears a blue T-shirt and a pair of rectangular glasses. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A smallish woman with her hair swept up in a loose bun and a smile painted on her face greets us at the door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only then do I notice the figure in the chair seated across from my father—the hair, the freckles, the slightly crooked nose—and my heart jumps and falls at the same time. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And the older girls curled their hair just so every day, and they walked giggling in their skirts through the rain and mud as soldiers with guns stood in the watchtowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My family would find me later, my hair swirling about like tragic Ophelia’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Here, where the startling tiny jaws of crocuses snap at the late- winter sun like the heads of baby watersnakes, here I killed the old woman with the irongray hair. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the path, we were breathing hard and Fiona was hoarse from shouting, her eyes as wild as her hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She shoots a pointed look at my hair, which, I have to admit, is a tangled mass held back by a headband. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The Daughters fussed over me—how good I smelled, how exceptional my hair was when it was combed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long, lonesome hair on Miss Hennepin’s upper lip was even curlier and shinier than the last time Roy had seen her. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said Rock is all about the business, and out of everyone in the shop, he cuts hair the best. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Mrs. Lynch, with her gray hair, wrapped in a bun, as a teenager, dancing to music in the living room with my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Fang brushed his Steven Tyler hair out of his eyes so we could get a good look at each other. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He rocked me for a while in silence, until I noticed that his clothes were changed, his hair smooth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair looked the way I had always imagined a skein of flax spun into gold by the miller’s daughter would. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And when that fairy woman done my hair with all them blossoms and that and showed me in the mirror, I thought...Well, maybe. I just thought that.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Little clumps of Sounder’s hair lay in the blood. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria pulled off her hat and ran her fingers through her hair, and suddenly she looked like a little girl again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snuggled in, her hair tickling his nose, flooding him with the scent of coconuts and jasmine. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, he ain’t clean when he comes to school. He don’t grow much beard, but his hair’s so long and tangled and dirty it looks like a dern cootie stable, haw!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the first rehearsal she came and sat next to him, laying her hand on his arm, laughing and tossing her hair. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stare at the curls of hair on the back of Jason’s neck as we cross the street. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set her cheek against the sharp angle of his collarbone, so that his hair tickled her cheek. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The white curtain caught in my hair as I passed it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arms around his neck and then thread my fingers into his hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finn being Finn, he claimed this meant his hair had superpowers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand to my hair, then carefully brushed it across my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to know why Big Ma covered her hair when she had nothing to hide. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The hair stands up on my arms and legs as I run away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body is covered in thick golden hair, her arms long enough to drag on the ground if she didn’t bend them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She watched for a few moments as the girl slept, her hair fanned about her head. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finn had thick, unruly hair with odd cowlicks that sprang up no matter how much Mom smoothed them down. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He ran his hands through his hair and I thought, He’s gone crazy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was mussed, his face moved nervously, and the dead calm was gone from his eyes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your hair?” he said, “why on earth do you ask? Of course I like it. What's the matter with it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She stops walking, and I resist the urge to touch her hair, which blows across her face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His dark hair is badly cut, as though the barber was distracted during the process, but some attempt has been made to flatten it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing that feels familiar is the mustache, the excess hair on his cheeks and chin shaved less than twenty-four hours ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set the table as Mom ties her hair back and takes the plates from Dad. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I dried myself off and I used the rough brush to pull through the snarls in my hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hello, hello,” he would say, stepping in, running both hands through his disordered hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could think of no way to make him care for her except by taking her father’s lock of hair to him and enabling him to conquer the town. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tufts hang down, and when you dance with a girl you flick your arm and make the cow hairs move. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran inside, combed my hair, washed my face, and tugged here and there so that the bodice of my dress lay flat against the bumps on my chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So I set the parcel with sausage on the table, smooth down my hair, and try to remember how to be a polite guest on a social call. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pita shivered, pushing her wet hair out of her face and scooting over to stand behind me as if she were afraid the man was going to suddenly get up and come after her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft . . . and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We are ditching our Sociology Seminar, and Kara is filling every space with nervous chatter, and when she laughs her black bobbed hair shakes like a skirt at her shoulders. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Bubble, bubble, boils and stubble, wrinkles triple, gray hairs double,” Seven said and Valley repeated perfectly as Seven handed the mirror over to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boy looked up at us from behind a lock of that fuzzy black hair, and then shyly looked down again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Chunks of ice had formed about the tangles in his hair, and clicked together softly when he moved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mandy was as tall as a fairy was supposed to be, but who ever heard of a fairy with frizzy gray hair and two chins? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had gray hair that he kept in a ponytail, and had been a member of a famous folk-rock band in the ’80s that my dad, for one, had never heard of. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I tie my hair in a knot at the back of my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She sets a bottle of goopy white stuff next to the sink and starts wetting her hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I pull myself up and lean against the wall, thinking it’s a good time for hair ruffling and sleep tight, kid and don’t stay up too late. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She smoothed her mother’s hair, rubbed her cold feet, and held the trembling hands, knowing there was nothing more she could do. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forehead was laid open, oozing blood back into the matted hair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman with the maroon hair had fallen to her knees and was asking the sky, “What I done wrong, God? Tell me, Lord. I been good.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair, the clothes, everything came together perfectly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I recall the muscles of his thighs and the scent of his hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flip my hair over and gather it into a ponytail so that he can’t see the blush spreading across my cheeks and down into my chest. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When she doubled over, the knight grabbed her hair and drew his sword, and for one hideous instant she was certain he meant to open her throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Between her legs, sparse hair clings to a swell of flesh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand landed right by her thigh and, building up his courage, he flicked his fingers so they toyed with Anastasia’s hair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smith’s head—the stiff Indian hair, the Irish-Indian blending of dark skin and pert, impish features— reminded him of the suspect’s pretty sister, the nice Mrs. Johnson. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked a lock of hair out of her face and he wondered what it might feel like to touch it, gently, as you might stroke a bird. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Saw your video,” he mumbled, running a hand through his silky black hair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

With the yarmulke covering his fair hair, he looked like a miniature Grandpa Will. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only dude around who used to get his hair cut while writing in a notebook.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I knew what she was hiding: mismatched legs, red eyes, fangs, and flaming hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She shook off her kerchief and unbraided her hair so that it fell over her bare shoulders. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She brushed her hair up into a tight ponytail and put on her nightgown. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what happened to your hair?” she whispers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Davi stood before her parents in front of their hut, hair disheveled, face swollen, shoulders slumped, arms hanging like dead weights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thinning gray hair was tied back in a ponytail. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If she has on a pink shirt, she wears pink slacks, pink socks, and two tiny pink bows in her hair. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the first guests arrived, Lady Isobel came downstairs dressed in a gown of black velvet and lace, with a headdress made of black feathers rising from her auburn hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just say there is more that is remarkable about the Murray twins than their hair.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure steps onto the floor of her grandfather’s old bedroom and summons him: a curious boy with lustrous hair who smells of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I am pondering these things when the medic with the freckles and red hair who has been working on me answers my question. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scraped my hair back from my face in the severe headmistressy way they used to fix it, and holding it in place with one hand, I straightened my shoulders and clicked my heels together. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My hair is wrapped beneath one of her head scarves. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She laughed at our jokes and teased us when we couldn’t comb through the knots in our ratted hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was tall and curvy and had hair that looked like fresh honey and always, always, always had her nails painted some wild color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She could not leave his presence when he was there, nor remove her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon’s, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Queenie’s hair was scraped back severely from her forehead flat against her skull and wound into a tight bun at the nape of her neck. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He used some machine oil to grease back his hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had worked the soil, which is its flesh, and harvested the plants and climbed the trees, which are its hairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom will never brush my hair or kiss my forehead again. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It made the hair on my arms prickle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Amin ran a hand over his sparse hair and glanced at the kids. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her straight brown hair framed the frown on her face. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His hair flops forward, and he brushes it back with a swollen hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its low-slung body is covered with thick reddish-brown hair, as are its five legs, each of which ends in a clubfoot. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were flaxen-haired dolls and others which Francie liked better who had hair the color of good coffee with lots of cream in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair, shorn only a little longer than her husband’s, was parted far to one side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I ran my hand roughly through my hair, ending up with a few loose strands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of it is very delicate, and even something as small as a human hair might get stuck in the wrong place and cause a computer to give a wrong answer. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank watched the tuft of goat hair settle on top of a basketball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I struggle into an upright position, push my wet hair off my throbbing temples, and brace myself for this meeting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked her in the eyes, and the hair on his arms stood up. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I threw my arms around her, and we both stood there crying into each other’s hair. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With her ragged black hair and her black punk clothes, an old wool overcoat wrapped around her, she looked like some kind of huge raven, completely out of place in the white landscape. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her reddish-brown hair fell over her shoulders in waves, her pale skin flawless and luminous. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hunter is trying to lose all his hair to be more like his vuvv bosses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” Natalie said, shrugging in a way that made her hair ripple down her back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Running home, racing through the snowfall, his hair froze into icy tufts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The head looked as if it was still feeling its hair being pulled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had been a reddish dog, with long hair and dark, sad eyes. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

"The lady did not ask your views, dwarf," snapped Kurleket, a great fat oaf with short-cropped hair and a pig's face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, in one stride, she crossed the room, seized a great handful of Uncle Andrew’s gray hair and pulled his head back so that his face looked up into hers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Andruss brothers never did figure out who cut their eyebrows and hair. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I give her a look, watching as the snow falls gently onto her hair and face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

David runs through the waiting room, heading for the door to outside, his brown hair damp with sweat. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t much of a ponytail, it was mostly ribbon and a few strands of hair. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He snickered and, after mussing my hair, bounded off after the other two. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Only for myself, and maybe that is enough...He smiles and pushes back his hair, standing on end as usual. “ Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

For a woman, salt-and-pepper hair is bad, while blond hair is, not surprisingly, very good. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the mirror, I step into the shower and scrub the roses from my hair, my body, my mouth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Stella didn’t pause to think; she ripped off her jacket and plunged into the water, gasping as the cold grabbed her, soaking through her hair, a feeling she hated. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking, Okay, I’ll start with their hair, make it fall out strand by strand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, from the school bus windows, she would see other wild girls on the edges of the cornfields, running without shoes, hair unkempt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was muffled up in his best blacks, woolens so new that they had hardly had a chance to fade yet, but the wind had turned his cheeks as red as his hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though his hair had become thick, it was still uneven, so for the time being he had a punkish look. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you doing that?” demanded Hermione, who was red-faced and whose hair was growing bushier and bushier in the fumes from her cauldron; her potion was still resolutely purple. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I'm glad of that,” Dicey said, reaching to pat his tangled hair. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ignore the fact that the spy’s hair is straight and dark like my own, and his skin is pale, and his youth reminds me of Metias over and over again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His hair had been neither cut nor combed in months, his clothes were pointless and he had no socks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the dirt from my face and ran my fingers through my hair to cover my scarred cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At last Ralph sat up straight and drew back his hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But this was one memory she wanted to hold on to: no pain, just her mother holding her close, rocking her back and forth, and the smell of her perfume in her hair. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My hair fell forward, cutting off everything—Maxine, Mr. da Silva, the greenhouse’s geraniums —except the book. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He runs a hand through his hair while I do something unnecessary with the teapot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She’s much shorter than Henry, shorter even than June, with Henry’s clever mouth but their mom’s brown hair and heart-shaped face. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lyra raised her head and wiped the wet hair from her eyes, and saw something quite different from horses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He hollowed something in their language and everybody began to pipe down just a hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair’s gotten greasy in the last few days. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Leo caught a glimpse of his friends in a losing battle, yelling and slashing at the monster’s nose hairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Brushing the stray wisps of white hair from her broad forehead, Eva rose. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looped his greasy hair back around his ears and leaned forward eagerly. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her glasses take up most of her face, and her curly red hair is in a bun. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony’s oration over the body of Caesar. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The little girls wore pretty dresses and shiny black shoes and ribbons in their hair. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hair beneath the visor was a squirrel's nest of dirty straw, and her face . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I push wet strands of her hair behind her ears, she looks up at me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But here was Pickett, wide-eyed, curious, long hair ringed and combed, mounted on a black horse, under a great tree. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow blew through a crack in the mud, falling on their hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

How I miss being touched—Nan stroking my hair, Darin arm-wrestling me and pretending to lose, Pop squeezing my shoulder good night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When my mom died, I remember Maggie teaching my dad how to do my hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He felt an absurd impulse to josh old Lee, to pat him on the back and ruffle the white hair and tell immoral stories. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was square and blunt; he had gray hair that he brushed back off his forehead and thin, straight eyebrows over cold eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were shaking and she yanked at a tuft of hair to maintain her grip. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joffrey examined the boy, an ungainly lad with a coarse, freckled face and thick red hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ignatius glared at the young man’s tawny velvet jacket and mauve cashmere sweater and the wave of blond hair that fell over the forehead of his sharp, glittering face. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was round and dark and wet, with long hair that whipped about it as it rolled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the clear northern light they all looked fresh, well rested, startled at my appearance; they stared at me as I ran a self-conscious hand through my disheveled hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Koder was deep in conversation with Gretel and whatever he was saying must have been terribly funny because she was laughing loudly and twirling her hair around her fingers into ringlets. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hair on the back of my neck stood up and the wind was snaking all around and the weird nature sounds made me wonder what else was nearby. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Long thick red hair piled high on her head, fine smooth skin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Absorbed in watching her as she floats past me toward the concierge desk, I don’t notice the tall, thin man with blond hair until he is standing in front of me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was exhausted, and I sort of cried into her hair. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The first one was shaking her wings, shaking her hair, stretching each leg in turn, and flexing her claws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Cotton Ball Heaven egg was smattered in his hair and sliding down the side of his face. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, it was nice, but definitely strange-looking for mom hair. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He's tall and handsome, white and relaxed, with the same dark, curly hair and shining teeth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother smiled at her, her hand touching her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had brown hair, though it was pretty light, almost blond. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of term he had a flare-up of asthma and wandered wheezing around the house in pajamas and bathrobe, hair standing on end, gasping theatrically at his inhaler. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had added more barrettes to her hair. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair was woven with dried grasses so it reminded me of a wicker basket. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One after another scurries forward and pokes at my loose hair and then scampers off to the others, giggling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rode behind her grandpa’s saddle, holding to his belt in the back, and her white hair was all curly and rippling in the sun. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weirdly, he wasn’t gaping at her face, but rather his eyes darted from her hair to her dirty sweatshirt and back to her hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As they entered Lockhart’s darkened office there was a flurry of movement across the walls; Harry saw several of the Lockharts in the pictures dodging out of sight, their hair in rollers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Uriah walks around the crowd of war criminals and points to a severe-looking Erudite woman with gray hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Layla pulled her into a headlock and dug her knuckles into Ivy’s hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her fingers twined through his long dark hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I'd choose something simple—a shade of red to match Maman's hair, a high waist with a cream waist-sash, and a sweeping skirt that flows out like a silk river behind me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I reach out my hand and run it gently across her flowing teak-wood hair. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He passed a hand through his fair hair and spoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then she realized they had actual horns jutting from their shaggy hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Young Ju,” he whispers into my hair, “in America, women can do almost anything men can do.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If the Earth moves, why isn’t there a constant gale of wind blowing past, like the wind in your hair that rushes past if you are in an open-topped car travelling on a motorway? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was a young man, almost a boy, with a half-formed, immature face and a lank mop of hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her fingers entangled themselves in his hair, and as he kissed her fiercely, she let everything fade away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her hair is up in a bun, and her hand goes to touch it, pat it smooth, as if she has to make sure it’s still there. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the state of him, the filthy layabout! Look at his hair!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Serves me right for trying to be fine. I wish I’d let my hair alone,” cried Meg petulantly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you never know. Emilia says clones are as vicious as werewolves. Did you see that story on TV about the boy who got hair all over him when the moon was full?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall, kind of thin, with messy gray hair. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His hair, under a seaman’s cap, was white and thick and hung almost halfway down his neck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the roar of the wind, I heard a distant bellow, an angry, tortured sound that made my hair stand on end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Something new, Edna?” exclaimed Miss May- blunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, I’m at the mirror, shaking my head a little to wake up my hair, then a lot to make it wild. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The wind was coming hard and my hair flew in my eyes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The pink petals would fall on my mother’s black hair and gown. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the blue twilight, he reaches out and touches my hair, then takes me in his arms and lightly presses his lips to mine. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was wild as the wood, but he had larger concerns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her blonde hair is a tangle of blood, mud, and ice, her braid unpinned and hanging limply down her back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She softly swiped a warm towel around my face and began rubbing my hair clean with a second wet towel. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And clean? Dress hair, press clothing—" “Make soap, wash dishes, barter—yes. You've just described every free-woman in the Scholars' Quarter." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Each month, Keav would travel with Ma to a beauty salon to have her hair styled and her nails painted. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His frame had withered, wrinkled skin hung off his face, his hair stuck out in brittle clumps, and he'd lost his top front teeth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair was up in a ponytail, so she looked like a teenager. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a lime-green coat to match her hair, with leopard spots and purple shoes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had flipped her silky hair over her shoulder and added, “I bet they eat squirrels.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

George wasn’t sure when Jeff would be back at school, and every morning, she kept nervous eyes out for the first sign of his spiky hair. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her hair was down and wild, wine red even in this light, and her mouth was slightly open. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of Lettie and her friends, with their beautiful new dresses and pressed hair and shoes without buckles. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hair on his back was standing straight up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I owe you, Filthy, so I’m gonna cut the grass for the rest of the year and pick up the leaves . . . and I’ll wash the cars and I’ll even wash your hair. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, Fab. You’re getting your nails done, your hair did...” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her thick brown hair was in a French braid, and she’d gotten new red glasses. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I sat up and drew away from him, suddenly conscious of my dirty hair, soiled hands, and torn clothing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her hair swayed in the night breeze, hiding her face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Clarissa, who by the way couldn’t have been much older than Spoony, maybe early twenties, white, freckles, bright-red hair, looked at the start of my new piece. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Water also ran down their necks from their matted hair, and both boys were shivering and jiggled their knees to keep warm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was a large man with a broad face and no hair on his head, and he blinked often behind his spectacles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The mathematician’s hand went to his sleek hair in the familiar smoothing gesture. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning when the girls slip off the barrettes, my hair falls back to being straight. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He braved a glance at Twig, who was still messing with his hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of other girls giggling would make the hair stand up on the back of her neck. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As she moved forward into the room, Mrs. Tonks’s resemblance to her sister Bellatrix became much less pronounced: Her hair was a light, soft brown and her eyes were wider and kinder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Her eyes are a little too much,” said Bridget, unfurling a boingy strip of hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I picture my mother standing behind me with a comb and a pair of scissors, faintly smiling as she trims my hair, and I want to scream rather than insult her like this. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was plastered to his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I could go to the Commander, fall on the floor, my hair disheveled, as they say, grab him around the knees, confess, weep, implore. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The hair wouldn't grow back. No matter how many times I tried," Arabella says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother was white with blue eyes and light brown hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"That's where you get beautiful red hair," his mom said knowingly. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You will make a line for him and he will do his job. There will be no noise. Remember—no hair, no lice.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stringy, wet hair hung down her shoulders and arms, spreading in the water like ruddy tentacles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her hair was up in a bun and she wore pale purple lipstick. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Seeing him with short hair, and without that big droopy mustache and bushy gray beard, I was surprised all over again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her head was bare and her hair loose and short like mine. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her head and shoulders were in the open and the wind was blowing in her hair. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cussing and muttering, someone was frantically scrubbing his hair and face. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He smoothed his hair and, leaning against the porch rail, stared peacefully out at the water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair looked like chopped meat when I was done. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to my bus stop on Wednesday I’m running my fingers through my hair because I didn’t have time to brush it, when I see Silas coming down the steps of his trailer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had short, curly graying-blond hair and a white face full of deep lines behind huge glasses. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But today, after I was sure my nails were dry, I reached up and grabbed a chunk of hair, split it into thirds, and started braiding. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

His hair was gray, but when he combed it and walked out the door, he was smiling and his face wasn’t tired or old. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Does his hair look awful from the plane? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My hair whips across my face, and the fabric of my T-shirt tugs and flaps against my torso. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a boy somewhat older than himself, with bristly red hair and freckles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Marly’s hair wiggle every time she heard it, it was so wonderful. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Helene, and she is covered in blood and scratches, her silver hair tangled as she gazes at me with empty eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the ground, beer matting his hair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Macy’s eyes filled with tears, and she gnawed on her hair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She alternately giggles and flips her hair as she guides me to the cafeteria. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

V had known her daughter in an instant, if only for the intricate twist of a braid she wore in her hair, the work of Talented fingers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stood at the threshold, snow caught in his windblown hair and sooty lashes, his face flushed from the cold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the neighborhood who could afford a hair stylist came to Park's mom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years, he judged, dark hair plastered across a gaunt face by the falling rain, her bare feet muddy to the ankles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kaede was whispering to her, stroking her hair back from her damp forehead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Come here till I comb your hair, said Grandma. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

An older boy was leaning over sideways, shaking his wet mop of hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment it's caught in her hair, and then it falls onto the pavement, but she doesn't notice. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And I’d screamed in delight as he threw his arms around me and messed up my hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A quick glance in the mirror told me my hair was entirely impossible, so I pulled it back into a ponytail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her long red hair was tied back, the better to do what she was doing, which was to light her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He rubbed a hand through his hair and forced himself to hold her gaze. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got up, she announced that we were going to wash our hair. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My, what thick hair you have. I tried braiding my daughter's hair once, but it was too fine, soft and wispy like a baby's, even in her teens." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was tousled, as if from sleep, but there was nothing sleepy in her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hair was almost completely gray, which made him seem frail and vulnerable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The chain holds a silver pendant that’s got a figure of a man with long hair who is standing on one leg and lifting the other in the air. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She has straight black hair, cut very short on the front and sides, and fastened in a long braid down her back. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He looks old enough to be someone's grandfather, but maybe that's just because I see gray hairs in his brown beard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sighs quietly into my ear, and in return I stroke the thick hair of his back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Riding her bike along the opposite side of the street, chin lifted just a little toward the sun, hair flowing in a wind of her own creation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her white hair was so thin that the pink of her scalp showed through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was decidedly less fantastical, but by then, Ivy was hooked on Taryn’s bubbly laugh and the way she wrinkled her nose at anyone who made fun of Ivy’s poofy hair and freckles. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Monique, returning from still another makeup check, patted her hair and smoothed her dress as she approached the tall, well-dressed man speaking to Gerald. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a diaper draped over her left shoulder, spittle stained, and her hair had not recently been washed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd parted a bit, and Moss caught a flash of hair, a black suit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That even if his father hadn’t taught him himself, some crotchety old nanny had waxed poetic on the value of tucking your shirt in, polishing your shoes, and combing your hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Definitely,” said Snape, and even with his poorly cut hair and his odd clothes, he struck an oddly impressive figure sprawled in front of her, brimful of confidence in his destiny. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In her gold sweater belted at an impossibly tiny waist, with her gold hair, in gold flats, she looked improbable, like sunlight. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was hanging upside down from the top bunk to see if her hair would touch the floor, but her golden-blond locks came three inches shy, as she had suspected. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A fresh wind whips my hair and cools my cheeks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stretching his long legs out in front of him, Rishi folded his hands behind his head, a lock of shiny black hair flopping into his eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But his hair is half braided, half Afro. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The kind that comes from washing your hair only every other shower.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Completely mental, right? Okay. Now”—she stood straight and reached for a hair band—“I just stick this whole mess into a big high pony.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could still feel the tape around my wrists, see the smooth patches where it had torn the hair from my arms, and my groin ached when I took a deep breath. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes were bloodshot, his hair a mess. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the room stood a young woman in a black pantsuit, with long auburn hair and a security guard’s earpiece. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There will surely always be people with straight hair and blue eyes, as there have been for all history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had sat there the way I did every time she did my hair—with my eyes closed and my head tilted down—secretly imagining Kira was my mother. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Once, she went to the bathroom, casual-like, and came back with her hair parted a different place. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The satyr, Grover Underwood. And the girl with the spiky black hair and the—how do you say—punk clothes and the horrible shield.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Clasping her hands together, she closed those gray-blue eyes and ducked her head down and all I could see then was the big mass of wavy brown hair and the little blue hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The tips of his frozen hair would simply break off. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Squeezing through the railing before either parent could stop her, she dropped lightly to the floor a few feet below, and ran toward her Robbie, arms waving and hair flying. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A little girl with her hair tied up in braids swung on a porch swing and watched us with wide round eyes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At her neck Pantalaimon lay in his polecat shape, his fur glistening, and Lyra’s hair lay damp across her forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could probably run around with my hair on fire, and they wouldn’t even notice. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"A man does not choose his companions in the black cells," the handsome one with the red-and-white hair said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Who knows what’s going on under all that hair?” snorted Lena. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember any of them, except for the one with the gel in his hair and the Clark Gable mustache, the one with the Africa stain on his cap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our father is wearing his hair longer, curls brushing his collar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beneath it there is a single lock of raven hair glued onto the page and surrounded by symbols and letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With the screen of my hair removed, the recent changes in my face were far more evident. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave you in peace if you’ll only let your hair grow. I’m not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter,” observed Jo severely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan stands next to me, dressed in flat black, his dark hair combed away from a face scrubbed clean. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair stuck out in every direction and her face was smeared with mud, the pattern almost ritualistic-looking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Royal was the man who’d spied her in town; his partner was Red, owing to the rusty color of his curly hair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I pushed down my own fear and ran a hand through Rabia's springy hair. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When it was Dad’s move, I’d steal looks at him in his button-down shirt, trying to remember the fast-fading picture of the guy with peroxided hair and a leather jacket. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And when you get to a safe place, you should both dye your hair. Especially Ambrosia." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In that moment, with her hair pulled back and her clear brown eyes, she looked just like Judy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I long for my days at the gallery, prettied up, hair done, talking to adults about art or films or nothing at all. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your hair is curled beautifully, and Lotty is coming. Run meet her, both of you, and ask her which she likes best, brown curls or golden curls.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has dark hair, cut in a short, fluffy bob. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Papa dug his fingers deep into his hair. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the top of her head was a sprig of brown hair tied up with a scrap of red yarn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After I brushed my teeth, I worked to straighten out the tangled chaos that was my hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“For a minute it was”—Julia lets her hair fall in her face—“sort of fun to be mean?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They shower me with confetti that sticks to my skin and hair, and makes me laugh as I brush it from my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intent on keeping their balance, they ignored him altogether, and Lord Asriel felt the hair stir at the back of his neck when he realized that they were ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If you think my hair’s voluminous, you’ve never witnessed my cheeks after I ingest some nuts.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As Dona Amelia gives us last-minute instructions, Susana fusses over me, dabbing silver eye shadow on my lids, gliding her lipstick over my lips, giving my hair a final spritz of hair spray. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each hushed breath I took, the cold air wrapped itself around my beating heart and lifted the hairs on my neck. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Noelle stands up and pulls her hair away from her cheeks, which are red in addition to being cut up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

One was kind of fat She had dark hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was instantly reminded of my mother, who would comb my hair every morning while staring into space, never stopping to apologize when she pulled too hard or made me cry. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had pulled up my braids and worn them in a twist on top of my head, instead of straightening my hair, as black women often do for a formal event. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, especially with your hair all wild like that. You look like a gypsy, a rebel with an eye for fashion.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The creature eyeing them had the face and torso of an old, bare-chested man, complete with thinning gray hair and wrinkles etched deep into his features. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It bobbed its head, blinked happily, and attempted to run its beak through Taran’s hair. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlet stood beneath the scoreboard with a boy with dark hair, wearing a football captain’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She smoothed out our clothes, a wasted effort, and helped me twist my hair into a crown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was thin and weathered with thick white hair on his arms and face and head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Pa likes you a powerful lot, sir, but if he thinks you kidnapped me he’s gonna come ripping out after us like his hair’s afire. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She’s heavyset, with a furrowed brow and a soiled apron, and he’s got thin strips of hair across his bony head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

While I opened the bottles and sniffed them, she’d try to run her long metal comb through my hair, cursing out of the corner of her mouth because it was so tangled. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She works her way down, pulling the hair out from under the pillow so it streams down my chest, hiding some of the lines and tubes connected to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the chair, and the woman took my hair and started painting this creamy white stuff in it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jess kept her head down so her hair would hide her tears. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

My classmates with straight hair didn’t have to worry about that, I guess, because they never wore one. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It streaks me inside with streams of her beauty I hold her yellow hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As we entered, a giant man with shaved blond hair, a business suit, and a holster with a gun in it walked in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad takes another deep breath and scratches his thinning hair. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I did not shave or cut my hair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost my strength, so I could not even lift my hands to place pins in my hair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons that I’ve especially admired some of them, like Lionel Hampton and Sidney Poiter, among others, is that they have kept their natural hair and fought to the top. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the girl from the Fiction Department, the girl with dark hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention, and my fingers tremble, despite the fact that I have them buried in my coat pockets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He turned toward her and swept a strand of hair out of her eyes, his fingers leaving a burning trail on her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, like the woodman, was the colour of mahogany, and the curled hairs on his chest made a golden haze where the sun caught them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his memory, there were brief glimpses of her—a flash of copper eyes, short curly hair, a birthmark on her shoulder—but they never lingered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He made a face and ran a hand through his perfectly spiked black hair. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girl had mousy brown hair and a simple brown dress. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He took a silver key from his pocket and unlocked the chain around the golden monkey’s feet and hands, and carefully avoided touching even the tip of one golden hair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You said you wanted a gentleman’s cut. That means no facial hair.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know this, because I’m rinsing my hair thinking about arms and legs and if I had a choice about which limb I had to give up what I would choose. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The long side has decorations: One man has shells, and the other has the whole wing of a bird dangling from his hair. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

From here, I can barely make out the inch or two of new blond hair on his head, but I know it’s there. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have quite wavy hair when it’s dry.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Because the professor is way off in his own orbit—out where it doesn't matter how crazy your hair looks. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair swayed down her back in a mesmerizing kind of way, which of course he didn’t care about either. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The girl, Hagar, was braiding her hair, while Pilate, whose face he could not see because her back was to the window, was stirring something in a pot. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell to his knees, only to be jerked back to his feet by the Keeper in front, a thick guy with black hair and a snarl on his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She tosses her hair over her shoulder, flicking droplets of water onto him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Trip, from his spot beside her, absentmindedly ran one hand through his hair. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was light-skinned and skinny with white hair and she was breathing funny. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They’re filthy, barefoot, their skin caked in dirt, their hair a wild mess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bloody hell,” Marco says as Bailey jumps back, almost colliding with Poppet and sending her hair into another brief wave of motion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many who lived here, Farmer told me, came from small villages in the distant Andean mountains—handsome people with jet-black hair and high cheekbones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I fixed my hair up like I’d seen hers on a magazine. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more pens were stuck in her hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My hair hasn't been this color since your grandfather died. It quickly turned gray after that terrible day. He always used to like my hair. And what do you think of the makeup?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian has gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, and he is in the front of the room checking off names. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had leathery skin, curly white hair, and gnarled hands, like he’d spent a lifetime working in a machine shop. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His hair had gone from close-cropped Roman style to longer and shaggier. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair was combed, sleek as an otter. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

If you don’t, you can end up with hair in your spaghetti. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat on the burning milestone with his matted hair and eyes like windows, and was glad to be able to look away sometimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged the younger girl, stroking her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d already had his hair shaved into a low buzz cut to hide his natural curls. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He showed no trace of concern, though his hair blazed as if it had caught fire in the late-afternoon light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pulled away from her face, which was this incredible golden brown—mulatto, Eurasian, Hispanic, some exotic foreign blend. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Connor says, and pretends to pick a bug out of my hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She walked over and started playing with my hair, so much darker than her own. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s fallen from my back, under the kitchen chairs, with all the Doorman hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He cut a little hollow space in the rock of another world, put all the tiny golden hairs into it, and replaced the rock before closing the window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy’s yellow hair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I make a halfhearted effort to push my hair out of my eyes and realize it’s matted into clumps. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"I imagine, daddy," Matilda said quietly, "that you weren't looking very hard and you simply took mummy's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the Tens stroking their new shortened hair, the females shaking their heads to feel the unaccustomed lightness without the heavy braids they had worn so long. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He combed his hair down over his forehead to conceal as much of it as he could. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to my head, afraid to touch it for fear of making contact with the hair dye and spreading more green. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As he bathed, the girl washed his feet, scrubbed his back, and brushed his hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had the longest hair I’d ever seen, a cascade the color of field mice that fell to her knees when she took it out of its tight bun. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are light, and her hair is an indeterminate color that cannot seem to decide if it is blond or brown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gibbs’s hair was short like Brandon’s, but way more white than black. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her dull blond hair is tied back in a knot, but a few loose strands frame her face in gold. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed her off as best I could, being gentle with her sore places, combed her hair, and let her wrap up in one of Mama’s leftover shirts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, then comb my hair back into a ponytail and layer on lip gloss. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But that only makes my hair extra-frizzy, as if I stuck a finger in an electric socket. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Turner wondered if his hair would have to be white before he didn’t have to put up with dreary Sundays. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their limbs were long, and their hands had many fingers; their hair was stiff, and their beards grey-green as moss. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He leans over and plants a milky kiss in my knotted hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His nose was skinned and there was dust on the bloody patch and dust in his hair. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Winter calls for Fair Isle sweaters, lined wool pants, and Christmas hair ornaments. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a wig, you pigs! Don’t y’all know anything about hair?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lock of red hair falls into his face, and he looks me over, his gaze lingering on my bruises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She leaned over me, so close her breath tickled the hairs on my eyebrow as she looked at the stitches there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every hair on my body stands on end. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, Constantin was much too short, but in his own way he was handsome, with light brown hair and dark blue eyes and a lively, challenging expression. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Monday I sat between Jay’s legs for hours as she braided my hair into fishbone cornrows that end in French braids. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Doreah grew gaunt and hollow-eyed, and her soft golden hair turned brittle as straw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, Phoebe said, “I’d make a list of items which the police will want to investigate further: the sword, the suspicious spot on the floor, and several hair strands which I picked up.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mama immediately stood up, smoothed back her dark hair, and gave us quick kisses on the cheek. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lily ran her hand over her hair, wiggling all five of her fingers ever so slightly for my benefit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But then the defense attorney, a short white lady with blond hair and an upturned nose, steps up to the podium. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Henry was back in the kitchen, and so she released her hair and shoved her hands back into the dishwater. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had the same blond hair and sea-blue eyes, deep with strength and secrets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He gets out of his car as if his hair is on fire. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Father brushes my hair from my face and touches my cheek. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Moreover, his hair was not just on top of his head—where thick hair is supposed to be. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already got mine!” said Hermione brightly, pulling a tiny bottle out of her pocket and showing them the single hair inside it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I pull on my chin to check for hairs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of Tyrion’s neck began to prickle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He scrubbed Kuda with a bath brush and washed his hair as well. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut short in a military burr. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A warrior princess, he decided, not some willowy creature who sits up in a tower, brushing her hair and waiting for some knight to rescue her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair was short and black and shiny. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I liked how she woke us up every morning at dawn, shouting, “Rise and shine, everybody!” and insisted we wash our hands and comb our hair before eating breakfast. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something, anything, that would make her like her hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Margaret had finished; Lady Constance’s hair was now an alarmingly complex knot of yellow braids. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

All the hairs on Piper’s arms stood up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Crow and hawk feathers jutted from his hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could break thermometers and straighten your hair and give you second-degree burns. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Or say things like “Wow, you’re great at softball for a girl like you”? Do they touch her hair without permission or make comments about her edges when she sweats and they get frizzy? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And now, with his bottle and his fountain pen drained, he simply sits, dragging a hand through his hair distractedly, staring across the room at nothing in particular. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Today has felt as tangled as my hair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Compared to Chi-Boy’s six-plus feet, I wasn’t the tallest, but I did have the longest hair of any of the boys, almost to my waist, burnt ombré at the untrimmed edges. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My parents exchanged one of those looks I couldn’t understand, and he went back to bed while Mom stayed by my bed, stroking my hair as sleep reached up and sucked me under. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I comb my baby hairs into a swoop. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper had smoothed down his hair and shaved off his whiskers. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma looked pretty, with her bare arms plump and white, her cheeks so red and her dark hair smooth and shining, while she scrubbed and rubbed the corn in the clear water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Sula answered them even then, for it began to rain, and the women ran in tiny leaps through the grass for fear their straightened hair would beat them home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed, not of blood, glassy eyes, and the smell of burning hair, but of gentler things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bromios was tall, and his skin was olive; his black hair was curled tightly on his head; his eyes were green. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, his dark wavy hair has grayed handsomely. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in Juvenile Hall’s gray sweatshirt and khaki pants, his hair cropped close. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her hair was long and curly and hung in a thick braid down her back and gave the impression of straining to burst free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boy’s hair was grayish-brown, cut short in the front around his face but left long and stringy on the sides. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It comes down thrice more before I feel her hands in my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“How do we get a cap on that hair? It will be like squeezing small socks on a bear.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could tell she just got back from the beauty parlor because her hair was frizzed like she had just rammed her fingers into an electric socket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her hands, so steady when she stirs vats of jam or braids my hair, flutter like frantic birds, desperate for me to move faster. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wind blows her skirt and hair, and it looks like she’s going to fly away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed and groomed, clad in green velvets and an ermine half-cape, with his long red hair freshly washed and his fiery beard shaped and trimmed, the wildling looked every inch a southron lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silently she dressed, tied back her hair, and set herself to a succession of chores, beginning with tearing down the mosquito netting from all of our beds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed her wet hair off her face and smiled back. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s starting to get one or two gray hairs, and sometimes he tells Momma she should pluck them out for him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She has red lips and a flower in her hair. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“We both ended up with gum in our hair.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine him with feathers in his dark hair and wearing beaded buckskin like in the newspaper serials. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A black hat dangled from one hand, and as Winnie came toward him, he passed the other through his dry, gray hair, settling it smoothly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up slowly and looked down at the dead witch, at her rich black hair, her flushed cheeks, her smooth pale limbs wet with rain, her lips parted like a lover’s. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped over an upended chair and raced around the wreckage as the top of her head appeared—dark hair that looked as if it had been sprayed by gray and white paint. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I knock on the door, and a girl with long black hair answers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But her hatted hair was beautiful, deep red-brown. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cut their hair without any discernible skill, often pulling great clumps out with the blunt scissors. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a quick toss of her red hair, she proceeded to answer her own question with such feeling that no one who heard could be so unkind as to ever forget. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I plug the hair clippers into the outlet near the mirror. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jesse pushed his damp hair out of his face and plunked down on the wooden bench. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She thought how she might describe it, the way they bobbed on the illuminated water’s gentle swell, and how their hair spread like tendrils and their clothed bodies softly collided and drifted apart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With his tousled blond hair and blue eyes, he might’ve been Jason’s brother on the mortal side as well as the godly side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He removed the baseball cap from his head and smoothed his hair and replaced the cap. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wishes we had a drop of hair oil in the house but water and spit will keep my hair from sticking up like black straw in a mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His red hair sprang up like a sponge on the top of his head and he stared at Jake with gray, flabby eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And now, with new Lady 'Stache Off’s triple beauty action™, you can moisturize and self-tan while you rip that unsightly hair from every pore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her hair is perfect, and she’s wearing a red holiday sweater, pearl earrings, and a matching pearl necklace. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her pinned-up blonde bun had come undone in the back and her hair dangled like long spider legs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She nosed his forehead and snorted into his hair and stomped her hoof for her treat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I like the way he talks about trees having arms and hair and stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Now when the door opens, a stuffy stale smell comes out and I see her in her bathrobe, her hair tangled like seaweed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Ellis shook her long blonde hair back off her shoulders. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A big gray dog with long curling hair and yellow eyes was their leader and he went last. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this angle, Grace can see Maya’s eyes, Joaquin’s nose and jaw, Melissa’s hair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pulled into its usual ponytail, and her checkered dress looked like the same type of clothes she’d wear any other day. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

JB’s a shooter, but I’m sneaky and silky as a snake — and you thought my hair was long. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She softly strokes my hair and caresses my cheeks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how to arrange my hair any differently, so I leave it as is—braided in a crown around my head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning, before she readies herself for work, Maria Isabel bathes her daughter with buckets of water and plaits her hair into two braids. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I brush my hair away from my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the brush of her hair against his chin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth trembled as she stood before a monster of a man with shaggy dark hair and a beard streaked with white. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Shame he wasn’t concentrating when they mentioned how to stop it, really,” said Ron, whose hair, like Hermione’s, was singed, and whose face was blackened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The queen dubbed it “the Chrysopoesium”—from chrysopoeia, the transmutation of base metal into gold—and she wore her necklace of his hair when she came to present it to him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The only constant is my hair, which is always thick and straight, cut in such a way that if surfacing from a dive, my bangs would fall to my lower lip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t answer, just tugged cruelly on a handful of my hair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat plastered his short hair to his temples and the nape of his neck. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She stayed bent over and swung her hair. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He popped up with a dozen miniature plastic swords in his hair, grabbed the soda gun and served himself a drink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One after another, thin jets of warm water struck Laila’s hair, then her palm when she raised it to shield her face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The polka dots on her dress and the yellow in her hair had been painted on the iron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Brooke had thick thighs, a square jaw, and sleek blond hair that always looked the same. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The girls hair, held atop her head like a ball of wool, bounced as she ran. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her stands a smaller girl with pale skin and a smattering of freckles, her hair in pigtails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She is a very small, very old woman with short gray hair, and she was the first friend I made in Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Addison is this really serious-acting black woman with tight gray hair in a bun and these suits that make her look like she works in a bank or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was greatly hampered by his lack of book knowledge and of the knowledge of the meaning of characters written upon a paper with a camel’s hair brush and ink. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As I was about to hand the brush back to August, I saw a long, black, wavy hair threaded through the bristles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their children’s chocolate eyes, red hair, and freckled faces mirrored mine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’ll be happy for me and mess up my hair and say, “Good going, Al!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

That Jackie was gone and in her place was this new Jackie with blue streaks in her hair, out on the porch telling Bertha how much she loved the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t notice anything about the woman’s hair. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Angela liked the sweet, loving girl with coils of hair who always smiled. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The wind blows my hair across my face, cutting my vision into strips, and I leave it there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Will nods, looking over at me, his hair slicked back from the pool water. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother tucked Taylor’s hair behind her ear softly. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The one in front was young, with well-groomed, glossy black hair, somewhere in age between Otto and the adults farther in the background. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The principal looked at Brian and me, with our unwashed hair and our thin desert clothes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A willowy girl with long brown hair joins us onstage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hair at her temples blew about in the breeze, the column of vermilion fresh in her part. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Baseball cap already on backwards, shaggy blond hair already poking from under the rim, the kid who danced in the living room with his mom grinned up at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt one huge hand come around and grab my hair, yanking me forward, right over his head. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I just wanted him to lean closer, to tuck my hair behind my ear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He stroked her hair and looked into her eyes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Golan came howling back toward me, his hair smoking and one arm covering his face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her hair was dull and matted, loosely held back to reveal her reddened ears. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had both hands on her hair, pulling it back from her face like a skinned rabbit and fanning her neck in the back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been neglecting her hair, which was darker and straighter; her body had grown stubby, her face round. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thick red hair even grew out of his ears. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kristi reaches up to twirl a piece of hair in her fingers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were always scented with the violet water she combed into my hair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is snarled and untamable and perhaps even whiter than his. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Next to the fan were combs, packets of hair attachments, magazines bulky with loose pages, piles of colorful DVDs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She fidgets with the ribbon in her hair as she talks. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The light coming through a crack in the door to the roof filtered through her hair to make a halo around her thin face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was leathery, her teeth decayed, her hair faded and colorless, and her look frightened. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Masses of bright yellow hair tumbled to her bare shoulders in thick curls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I think about the note I found on Balekin’s desk, the one in Dain’s hand, a sonnet to a lady with sunrise hair and starlit eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hair was too dark, especially compared to the few silver hairs springing from her chin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve tried that,” Piper says, running her fingers through her long hair. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leave the pool, our hair slowly drying as night turns into early morning. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After putting my wet hair in a towel turban, I crawl into bed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So she has to satisfy herself with taking us to the elevator, fussing over our hair, and pushing the button for us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Phil’s blond hair is mussed, and his blue eyes are bright with mischief. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts a hand to her hair, wrapping a loose tendril gently around his finger before yanking it hard, pulling her face toward his. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Tie your hair back from your face,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He perks his head up and pushes his black hair from his eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gigi was wearing jeans and a flowing tank top, and her hair was plaited into a side braid. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead she gave her pox scars and a mummer’s mole on one cheek with a dark hair growing from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A pink face, a brown face, yellow hair, red hair, cutoffs everywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d got the other sock on and was buttering toast and his hair stood on end and Mum would have said he looked ‘the spit’ of Stan. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had deep brown eyes and hair three shades from red. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And there I am, center screen, tousled dark hair and button-down and a bow tie. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My parents had a pleasant enough catch-up with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, and I followed Pamela around, gaping at her hair, her fair skin and teenager jewelry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had seen the boy stroke Joanna’s pretty hair tenderly; had seen how Joanna put up her hand to touch his cheek. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a daisy from her hair and gave it to Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks a bit like a pup herself—she has shaggy hair, and it hangs in her eyes and flops down to her shoulders. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She saw that the tortoiseshell comb was still in Penelope’s hair, and for the first time Ophie began to wonder about it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late, Twinkle,” he said, thrusting a shaky hand through his hair. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s pleasantly strange to see Hideo in a way no one else does—boyish, relaxed, wholly vulnerable, hair rumpled and wet from a shower, his sweatpants hanging low on his hips. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It always made her hair so bright and warm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She saw herself in one of the mirrors and put her hands to her hair. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was a bony man, with short grizzled hair and long, nervous fingers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter pull back her hood, shake out her long hair past her shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She is waiting in a flowered shawl by the fountain for her lover, her Spanish lover, the lover before Jorge, and her hair is twisted with high combs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she was a woman because there was less hair on her face and she was shorter than my ogre, and I think he was a man. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She seems on the verge of tears, tucking stray hair behind her ears. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Some had hair that was thick and bushy, others, short and hardly there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But what I had always thirsted for were the details: the way her hair glinted in the sunlight, her favorite ice cream flavor, the songs she liked to hum, did she bite her nails? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you lose, you have to shave off that stupid tuft of hair you treat like an imaginary friend. And just that—I want a bald spot in its place.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It missed the spinal cord by a hair, missed the medulla oblongata, and traveled through her head just underneath the brain, missing every major vein, artery, and nerve. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He remembered the first time she found those little animals in his hair, how she screamed and screamed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in my face, and started swearing at me, close ’nough that clumps of slob was jumping off the hairs covering his mouth, splashing foulness all o’er my face. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

My hair was too thick; it always tightened back into a dense bunch right after she ran a comb through it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He hunched down and tried to move toward the exit, but someone else stepped up, an older man with a crown of white hair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy shoved a fresh fall of black hair off his fore-head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A balding man with strands of dark hair combed carefully across his head sits behind another wooden desk polished to a sheen that reflects the glow of the lamp. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been plain, wearing her hair in two braids all through high school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Seed Collector used Nathan’s hair at the back of his head for balance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mollie could not cure her, but she could feed her, and she could brush her long, beautiful, silvery hair from her face—a face that was lined and expressive, that maintained its aura. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She flipped through more styles, settling on basic hair, dark and short. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d ruin my hair if I turned around to look at her, and I knew she didn’t want me to. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had pale blonde hair and a rodent-like quality to her face that was most apparent when she looked suspicious, and eased when she smiled. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When she was done, I felt like a brand-new princess with my hair neatly parted down the center and redone in two braids. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I think you might need to check the bed. And your hair.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Flame came out with the words and singed the hair on my belly and legs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, Caesar's hair is powder blue and his eyelids and lips are coated in the same hue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her long black hair was in a ponytail, but the wind kept whisking locks of it across her face, into her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Hermione, whose bushy hair obscured the tiny patch of sky visible through the dark branches high above them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I take in his dark eyes and red hair, not realizing that he's staring back until a few seconds have passed and he clears his throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With one hand the Object swept her hair away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was not that he had dirty fingernails, or anything like that but some large bird seemed to have been nesting in his hair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was so full of moisture it made her hair stick to her forehead. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t listen to anything Cliff says,” Theo chimed in, pulling the pencils from her bun and shaking her hair out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

All the guys like all the made-up, permed hair, easy, trendy girls. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the cover a teenage girl with hair the color of a banana had the widest smile that I have ever seen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Hooded in her own hair, Ammu leaned against herself in the bathroom mirror and tried to weep. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight shone on his crewcut hair and his young, clean-shaven cheeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Winn-Dixie stood and stared at the tree, and the hair on top of his head rose up a little bit and he growled deep in his throat. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I rise, dress, and braid back my hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She can still picture the boy: white hair, shy hands, a melting smile. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Has there ever existed a head of hair like mine at thirteen? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a spill of black liquid curls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He is aware that together he and Moushumi are fulfilling a collective, deep-seated desire—because they’re both Bengali, everyone can let his hair down a bit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sacrifice another chicken and use the rest of the potatoes to make a stew they can take upstairs, and while it’s boiling, I try to comb the fleas from Max’s hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could slip in, change my clothes, and fix my hair before he got home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is thick and midnight black, except for a curious, thin silver streak on one side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey looked at the back of his round little head, where the yellow hair stood out at crazy angles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom asked, brushing her hair with one hand as she guided her shoes onto her feet with the other. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers through her hair, felt the bit of leaf, and plucked it out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A pale golden color and as fine as a piece of hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got my figure and my mother let me get my hair cut. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Calypso reached up and ran her fingers through my mangled hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of Fabric from my leg tearing out the hair beneath it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Laroux ruffled her perfect hair as if she were thinking, and angry, and plotting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she’s quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I rub my hand over her soft hair. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there in their midst was Sansa, dressed in sky- blue silk, with her long auburn hair washed and curled and silver bracelets on her wrists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the mirror, a shock of black eye and busted lip and wild hair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His hair was blond, too, and cut just the same as Burke’s and the old man’s. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A gentle autumn breeze tousled their mostly fair hair. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He wears a Tribal vest, but even with the hood up, his hair trickles out like a tongue of flame. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Akane brushes her hair out of her eyes, and I notice a small tattoo on her wrist. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Inej felt it ripple through her hair and couldn’t help but think of the storm to come. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sink is smeared with gobs of toothpaste and little black hairs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You can tell who the meeting leader is: a thin woman with short dark hair. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had her hair brushed back, so I could see it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Except for a few gray strands of hair, she was as bald as a baby pigeon, which gave her the appearance of being a very old man with enormous, wide eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Stooped and with thinning hair, Ernest went back to Osage County, where at first he stayed with his brother Bryan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I can see the man driving it—he has dark skin and long hair that is in a knot at the back of his head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once I dried my tears I tried to recruit Dadi, who said she’d be happy to help and then braided my hair into two braids that were horrifyingly stuck to the side of my head. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over my hair I tied a ragged length of linen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

About five houses down, two men were dragging a woman with black hair by her feet through the front door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Suri’s hair was being lifted as though someone were running their fingers through it, smoothing it back from her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“That kid is something else! Came here selling candy one day before I cut his hair.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Cho happened to be sitting only a few places away from the girl with the silvery hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her skin is smooth and white against her hair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had just the right amount of wave in the front, and he was dressed in khaki shorts and a V-neck T-shirt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I hoped that my hair looked okay and that I wouldn’t look too goofy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She used her fingers to comb Håkon’s hair out of his face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was the face from Mo’s photograph, except that the hair surrounding it was darker now, and there was no sign of any smile. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are still heavy, her hair a kinky mess. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eugenia, march upstairs and brush your hair down, what if we have an unexpected visitor?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The girls wore organdy dresses and party shoes and ribbons in their hair, or hats. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had red hair and went to confession every week. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam could see herself too, reflected in the brown of Jalil’s eyes: her hair billowing, her face blazing with excitement, the sky behind her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, she has feathers growing from her hair, too, like a mythical creature from the ocean transforming into a bird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His hair, as always, looked like he’d just rolled out of bed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Smiling, overjoyed to be center stage for once, Father Mike cut a lock of my hair and tossed it into the baptismal pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair was the pale blond of a porcelain doll. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark brown and his skin was a bit lighter than most Lakota people’s, but his eyes were brown. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tiara pulled a long piece of hair in front of her face and examined it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A beaming Fred stood before them, wearing a set of magenta robes that clashed magnificently with his flaming hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, Luke’s blond hair looked pure white. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing hanging from her hair or magpie-tied to her wrists. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Even though their hair will be back to being all ratty in the morning. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Cowardly as ever, I shifted my hair over my right shoulder to hide my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He rolled the hair up neatly and laid it in the handkerchief with the other things. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Padva attends, after some coercion by Chandresh, gloriously adorned in golden silks embroidered with red filigree, crimson feathers in her white hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I feel the dampness of my hair soak through the back of my T-shirt, making me shiver. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then I recognized the tweed jacket, the thinning brown hair, the scraggly beard. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And only upon closer scrutiny does he notice that they are accompanied by locks of hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A group of Candor and Erudite are waiting there, including the blond Divergent woman who got dragged to the elevators by her hair, the girl I helped escape, and Cara. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another’s hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cut, and she was wearing the blue cap. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wore a bushlike black beard and shoulder-length hair, which he kept out of his face with a headband made from a filthy nylon strap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of the performance Cody entered the ring on horseback, his long gray hair streaming from under his white hat, the silver trim of his white jacket glinting in the sun. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He lay on the stones, melted wax cooling, his face all faces, one eye blue, the other golden, hair that was brown, red, yellow, black, one eyebrow thick, one thin, one hand large, one small. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His promises are already clear in the chin he presses into her hair, the fingertips that stay. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl in the lead had spiky black hair and a black leather jacket. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They all turn to look at me, mouths open—especially Stephanie, who thinks tahari rice is a fashion trend, and the loud one with the dark hair. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She flips her hair again and shakes her little narrow behind as she walks away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If your mother had married a proper decent Limerickman you wouldn’t have this standing up, North of Ireland, Presbyterian hair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After I tousle my hair with the towel, I dry the rest of me and stand, wrapping the towel snuggly around me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, I didn’t have any friends except Amy who had a mother who let her hair out in public. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His long, white hair hung from his face in a stringy disheveled mess along the sides of his lean, angular face. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His breath fanned my hair as he bent closer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Opening my eyes, I see that on the bedside table, there’s a framed picture of a woman with long gray hair in a floppy white hat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Startled, Rishi looked up at a small girl with wild hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This was San Francisco, the home of peace and love, and wearing flowers in your hair. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This saint has long hair and wears a red tunic and sandals and wields a huge sword above a disgusting-looking dragon with a tiny human face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Monday morning I’m up early to wash my face and flatten my hair with water and spit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even though scarcely a shadow, the silhouette was graceful and lithe, her hair streaming behind her like ripples in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a suit and tie, his thinning hair combed back Pat Riley fashion. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the water is thick and dirty, and a group of mermaids tangled in garbage and seaweed swim toward me, their long hair floating all around their faces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She pulls back and pushes a strand of hair away from my face. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“One day Useless’s mother went to the river to get water. She found a beautiful girl sitting on a rock. ‘Cut your hair and put on your finest clothes,’ the girl told the astonished woman. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was about his age, but there was, in the photos she sent, an air of hard desperation, hair dyed a brassy blond, eyes burdened by too much blue makeup, top too low-cut. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then I realized what I’d said and didn’t ask about my hair again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His hair was almost white but his eyebrows were bushy and still black. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A tiny, old woman, her hair pulled back tightly in a white bun, approaches the group of women. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My hair is down, the front tied back with the ribbon from the pop-up flowers from Will, and I’m wearing the skimpy silk boxers and a tank top, despite Poe’s laughter. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The monkey’s skin was rashy and covered with red blotches, visible through his sparse hair. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grey hair was clipped close and he had a neatly trimmed white moustache. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Black hair framed the fair skin of her face, with eyes the blue of pure flame. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The hair along my arms stands on end, and Miss Anderson gives me a wide grin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In a way, he realizes, it’s true — they share the same coloring, the straight eyebrows, the long, slender bodies, the high cheekbones and dark hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was filthy and ragged and its hair was tangled with twigs and leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mo turned around and stroked the hair back from Meggie’s forehead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The barber holds up the long strands of hair curling down the nape of my neck. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know anything about Muslims? We cover our hair and fast from sunup to sundown all year long and we’re not allowed to do anything fun.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Grandpa smoothed the damp hair from her forehead, spoke soft. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He has this wild look about him, and I don’t mean ’cause of his hair, but like in his eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was especially important when other physical markers disappeared—your long hair, dresses and shoes that fit properly, limited access to makeup and soap. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jenna and I wave, long hair whipping around our faces, but I don’t think he sees us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Another holds her new honey-colored hair up above her head. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Good guy, but he looks mad wild because his hair is patchy since he cuts it himself to save a few bucks, which is crazy stupid because Tagoe is a haircut artist. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was now standing with a tall, thin woman with jet black hair. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in black with blue hair is talking into the phone, a pink frosting line under her nose. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You,” said the third washerwoman, an older woman, deep-voiced, with grey streaks in her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I may have to sell your pretty hair to a wig shop for cash.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was a tiny, tiny lady, very thin, with little fluttering hands, and her hair was in a gray knot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boat-dust flew around the room and settled on hair and eyebrows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind me in line, her sunglasses on top of her blond hair, tapped me on the shoulder and asked something. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Albert walked to the fireplace and carefully polished a silver object beneath the antique painting of the man with red hair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh...right...Quidditch,” he said, putting his wand back into the belt of his jeans and running a hand wearily through his hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked-by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has curly brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It w as a magazine, a women’s magazine it looked like from the picture, a model on glossy paper, hair blown, neck scarfed, mouth lipsticked; the fall fashions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water continued to drip from the ends of her hair. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She's taller than I am but looks only a few years older, with sharp, wary eyes and her hair piled in a knot on top of her head. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His hair, flaming red, glows below a black cap. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The double basses and timpani are rolled in, and helping to wheel in a harp is a woman with a turquoise scarf over blond hair, wearing sunglasses and deep red lipstick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She fanned herself now, and lifted her damp hair off her neck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The past ten years had padded the curves of her hips some, and combed into her coal black hair a few streaks of cinder gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sabeen swishes off her scarf, and waves and waves of black hair cascade down. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“More,” she said, reaching up and ever so lightly smoothing my hair with her fingertips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who once upon a time had painted her nails black and now wanted to dye her hair purple. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His fingers investigate my scalp, lifting and separating the hair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It burns through my black hair as little beads of water collect around my hairline and on the curve of my upper lip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mud slicked his dark hair, encrusted his cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lots more pictures of the boys growing up, skinny boys with dark curling hair, Didi as lovely as ever, no pictures of Hugh anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not fistfuls, but one little hair at a time until I had round bald patches on my head. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the harpy Ella with her shaggy red hair and red feathers, her eyes like dark coffee. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Not much to see. First three aisles are for hair. Shampoo, conditioner, extensions, dyes, lots of chemical things I don’t understand. Aisle three is makeup. Aisle four is equipment.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nisus, King of Megara, had on his head, a purple lock of hair which he had been warned never to cut. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma made her hair into tiny braids, and over them she put on a wig with a shoulder-length bob. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in her satin robe with her hair uncoiling, she looked like a woman in excruciating pain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He keeps his hair cut very close and has a perfectly round, pink scar on the back of his neck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the wrinkles under Aunt Lydia’s eyes, the pallor of the seated women, the hairs on the rope in front of me on the grass, the blades of grass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hairs on her arms stood at attention, and the small of her back began to sweat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her gray bun of hair is dripping but intact. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I focus again on the doctor, smile, and swipe a bead of sweat from my temple when I adjust my hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But even as she said it, she bent down to wipe the sweat off her face with her skirt, then tried to smooth her hair. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I reach up and let my hair loose from my ponytail, let it fall over my shoulders and run my fingers through it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t like some poor little girl”—she throws on a Little Bo-Peep voice, fluffs her hair—“following big, manly Craig around the ward?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“See, that’s what terror does to you. I’m thirty-nine, boy. I was a young man till I saw that apparition right there, exactly where you’re standing. Turned me hair white overnight.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It shocked him, how unchanged he looked in the mirror, how the hair of his eyebrows still stuck out unrestrained and his eyes were still the same stained-glass blue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was death for any Tang man to wear his hair short. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estha’s hair was plastered down in clumps, like the inverted petals of a flower. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it hadn’t been a heap of rags after all; it was a gray-bearded man, chained to the wall, whose eyes glittered in Pantalaimon’s luminance, and whose tattered hair hung over his shoulders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she brushed the yellow hair, enjoying the roll and slip of it between her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me get this straight,” Lily says, running a hand through her hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on Hannah’s hair tenderly, but it felt as heavy as a weight. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she could see the drawings—Alice with long straight hair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wrapped the towel around her torso, up by her armpits the way girls do, and ran a small black comb through her hair. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, me too. I think that’s my favorite hair. A drag queen out in Odessa styled that wig for me. Took him a week to get it just right.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I held the hair out of my eyes to watch. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I instantly thought about the fact that Black knows how to cut hair but apparently not his own. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It is just leftover strips. And the fur is too short, no long hairs.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lopsided Mohawk had been shaved away, leaving short and stubbly hair everywhere except for his long bangs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Next to her on the narrow bed, Gramps was lying on top of the covers, stroking her hair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cut in a short black wedge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Matted dark hair hung down from his filthy head, framing a pale, scratched face that shone with sweat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just old enough to have a little bit of gray hair in his beard, but nowhere else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A fur of red dust gathered on the curly hairs of his forearms, and rivulets of perspiration ran down his temples. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty combed his hair forward again and parted it on the left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a large family, all of them with the same blond hair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Achmad picked up a plastic comb with which to comb out his straight, coarse black hair. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other girls, she had a silver circlet braided into the top of her long dark hair, so she looked like some kind of Persian princess. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary loomed behind him, licking the wounds on his masters head so Daedalus’s hair stood up funny. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Both watched Helen; with her hair drawn back into a low horsetail, she did look “darling,” just as Janis was saying. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could see was a tiny patch of Otto in front of my eyes, his wiry hair and a few fingers of his good hand where they curled on my shirt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her tomboyishly short hair looked expertly coiffed, even here at 17,000 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My hair tumbles down in a tangled mess. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She felt her hair fall into the dishwater, but she did not care, only wanted to be away from him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called “yeller” in those days. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, his hair was neatly combed, completing an image makeover so total that he was barely recognizable. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair died at the roots and fell out in clumps, as if they had received radiation bums. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the last time I wash that long hair of yours! Tomorrow I’m bringing my hairdresser over,” she announces. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s her over there, Harry, the young woman with the long hair.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people’s manners. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leah’s hair is so pretty, and it smells exactly like French toast. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, no problem. Let me eat some quick breakfast and wet down my hair and I’ll be over.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“The hair” — she pointed to my head — “must be evened. And I think braided would be best. Let us cleanse her first.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She kept her head down, looking at her phone, and her long brown hair slid forward, hiding her face. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She cried for...everything...for the girls and boys with perfect hair locked up in camp, for the way her father’s face had aged, for her sweet, sweet grandparents. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I allow my hair to fall forward again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had on her white terry-cloth robe and her hair was making a wet splotch on the back of it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Dorian wanted to yell, to pull out his hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A slender figure darted from behind a set of crates, her long black hair tied back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The guy, a tall red-faced spec four with freckles and a shock of red hair, told me he would look her up and that I could leave my name and come by later. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wet hair was shiny, the color of dark cinnamon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was as though she had dressed up and combed her hair and then... Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Strands of hair, pale blond and black, clung to his brow, the rags of his tunic to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he smooths his hair back down, or tries to, and chews his lip for a minute. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her wild hair was tied back to look straight, though it wasn’t. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d rebraided her hair, spilled a box of thread, and after picking the spools up, had taken to pacing back and forth. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He wore frameless glasses, had floppy silver hair, and a salt-and-pepper mustache that was like a miniature duster broom balanced under his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stood up straight and conventional, patting my hair into place. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my little brother and now I notice the bald spot on the side of his head where they shaved his hair. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Rock cuts my hair pretty fast, and when he hands me the mirror to check it out, my mouth drops open. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alsole, my landlord, has emerged from his apartment and is stalking toward me, his frown resembling a fish’s, his thin orange hair sticking out in every direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was small and thin, with big dark eyes and black hair knotted in a bun near the top of her head, exposing her neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She squeezed the water from her silvery hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grab the empty wine bottle and throw it, and it misses his head by the width of a hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I picked moss out of my hair and tried in vain to brush the mud from my pants, but succeeded only in smearing it, making me look like some bog creature vomited from the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he awoke, it was as though he were a feverish, frightened ten-year-old; his hair was wet, his shirt cold-damp and clinging. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brushes a stray hair away from his face and avoids my eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was impossible for black people to have really straight hair anyway; he had seen Asian women with straight hair all the way down to their feet. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

With the tip of her finger, she moves a strand of gray hair back into place, and adjusts her glasses. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The door opened and he came in looking like he’d been hay jumping—leaping from the hay loft into a mound of hay—all mussed up hair, hay bits, and twisted up clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z