Meanings of straggling hair in English

He was still passing the comb through his straggling hair, but mechanically and unconsciously.

The wind whipped her straggling hair into her face.

The dwarf got off his chest; he tossed his straight, straggling hair from his odious visage.

Few is searching through the pile of papers again; his white straggling hair almost touches it.

White as it was, haggard with terror, half concealed by straggling hair, the identification was nevertheless complete.

Yet her first gesture was a pathetic feminine movement with both hands to arrange her straggling hair.

She arranged without enthusiasm her straggling hair, and put straight a lace cap which was chronically crooked.

He had a singular beard, straggling hair, white and yellow, and not a hair on his head.

But it was in his eyes themselves, half-hidden by his straggling hair, that the real damage showed.

He was a little man, with a little round head covered with straggling hair, which came over his forehead.

The bald place hadn't a straggling hair upon it; and the corpulent officer, crowning the perspective, took a world of snuff.

Instantly Miss Upton recognized the long, weather-beaten face, the straggling hair, the half-open mouth, and the revealing collar of her restaurant rival.

Dishevelled and hopeless misery spoke in his stained face, his straggling hair, his shirt burst open at the neck and showing his wrinkled throat.

"Oh, indeed I am that," replied the woman, brushing the straggling hair from her forehead.