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Meanings of ruffled hair in English

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Usage of ruffled hair in English
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Mother's eyes twinkled as she stooped, laughed, and smoothed Leah's ruffled hair.
A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
2
A candid face peered out from below the visor and ruffled hair.
The Irish Times
3
Tisdale stood smoothing his wind- ruffled hair and watching the receding cliff.
The Rim of the Desert
4
The aroused young man tossed back his wind- ruffled hair and squared his shoulders.
Where the Sun Swings North
5
I leapt up, putting up a hasty hand to smooth my ruffled hair.
The Lady of the Basement Flat
6
With careful, caressing hand, he parted his brother's ruffled hair over the forehead.
Poor Miss Finch
7
It would be awkward too, going into the village hatless and with ruffled hair.
The Judge
8
Young fathers with tired eyes and ruffled hair may be a commonplace sight in the workplace.
The Irish Times
9
She stopped, choked by her intensity, while her mother stroked her ruffled hair and smiled faintly.
Captivity
10
Edmund raked his fingers through his ruffled hair.
The notorious scoundrel
11
In her ruffled hair were caught two or three thin brown leaves, their brittle edges curled inwards.
In the Wilderness
12
When she raised it again, her tear-stained face looked out, Medusa-like, from its setting of ruffled hair.
Maurice Guest
13
He had his coat on, glasses perched on his ruffled hair, and his keys in his hand.
Still alice
14
Jeremy watched Daniel wipe dust from his face, smooth back his ruffled hair, tuck his shirt in.
This is where we live
15
The evening of the last day's practical work found him belated, hot-headed, beaten, with ruffled hair and red ears.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
16
The waters had gone still, the churning smoothed away as a mother's hand would smooth a sleeping child's ruffled hair.
The Black Unicorn
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