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    1. Her tuft is the same color and a luxurious thick diamond of reaching nearly to her navel


    2. There was a tuft of salt and pepper hair on his chest


    3. Then he saw his pack over by another tuft of brush a few yards away and spat it out


    4. The end of each branch had a large tuft of leaves and a circlet of bright blue flowers


    5. stick and slowly walked towards the tuft of long-


    6. The jersey was thin enough and her belly was flat enough that you could see the shadow of her tuft


    7. The man was tall for a mortal – tall mortals were of a height with Adem and his friends – his head was shaved except for a topknot tail of white hair that fell down to his shoulders, a neatly trimmed white moustache like down-curving horns and a pointed white tuft of hair falling from his chin


    8. Tall for a mortal, his head is shaved except for a topknot tail of white hair that falls down to his shoulders, a neatly trimmed white moustache like down-curving horns and a pointed white tuft of hair falling from his chin


    9. The tuft was near burnt on the hearth--a


    10. After wiping his snout on a nearby tuft of grass, Slikit shook the stranger again, more roughly this time

    11. When she moved backwards, they fell on the floor, her blue robe falling off her, showing her milky breasts and red tuft of hair


    12. He wore fine jeans and a casual cotton shirt, and tuft of hair knotted into a punk style swinging back and forth as he shook his head


    13. grabbed a tuft of it at the corner and tugged


    14. Eventually, I tucked the feather into a tuft of grass,


    15. Tenney got up to a three-point stance and tried to stand and lurch toward the road but caught his bad leg on a grass tuft, and down he went with another yell


    16. Eva looked out over to the mountain and tracked a small tuft of cloud as it lazily drifted before she answered


    17. The little ant was striving not to lose the balance as was transporting on its shoulder a tiny green leaflet which was seen as if it was dressing a thick tuft for a hat


    18. tail and the tuft of hair on each ear is their most noticeable


    19. typically free of hair except a tuft on the tip


    20. Ingwe nuzzled her, circling with the white tuft of her long tail

    21. He ducked his head and tucked a tuft


    22. “It says to start your incision at the small tuft of hair on the upper


    23. Andore ripped up a tuft of grass, letting the blades slide between his open fingers


    24. Can you tell me when it will become available?” She tucked a tuft of rebellious silver hair back up under her hat and patted it to make sure it stayed in place


    25. But a long thumb and fingernail with a tuft of hair isn’t much to go on


    26. Not just a few odd changes here and there, like a rash or strange tuft of hair


    27. He pulled up a tuft of grass that had been growing near the stream to feed


    28. So as not to scare the mare, Daphne quietly reached for a long tuft of grass and held it out


    29. billiken: a doll created in 1908 that had elf-like pointed ears, a mischievous smile and a tuft of hair on its pointed head


    30. He loved to see the neat little tuft of black hair between their legs (it was so cute!), the hips merging into the stream- lines of their legs without the interruption of any piece of tissue, the little, rounded bottoms bobbing up and down in the waves as they jumped around in the water!

    31. The mantra stopped when a fiery red tuft of hair shot across the tunnel intersection ahead of her


    32. Spock had not liked this because it was only a small but long tuft of hair, and he liked either a nice bush, or nothing, she was to have nothing, and off came the tuft


    33. was shaved clean except for a neat tuft of hair tied at the back and a janau


    34. feather from the boy’s tuft of unruly red hair


    35. The head remained shaved, but the tuft


    36. sweat, thus revealing a tuft of grey hair in his forehead


    37. "Yeah," Prentice smiled, "he's got that tuft of grey


    38. that name long before that tuft of grey hair came in the


    39. tuft on my head and the end of my tail I was


    40. The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science

    41. Behind them came the Countess Trifaldi, the squire Trifaldin of the White Beard leading her by the hand, clad in the finest unnapped black baize, such that, had it a nap, every tuft would have shown as big as a Martos chickpea; the tail, or skirt, or whatever it might be called, ended in three points which were borne up by the hands of three pages, likewise dressed in mourning, forming an elegant geometrical figure with the three acute angles made by the three points, from which all who saw the peaked skirt concluded that it must be because of it the countess was called Trifaldi, as though it were Countess of the Three Skirts; and Benengeli says it was so, and that by her right name she was called the Countess Lobuna, because wolves bred in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been foxes, she would have been called the Countess Zorruna, as it was the custom in those parts for lords to take distinctive titles from the thing or things most abundant in their dominions; this countess, however, in honour of the new fashion of her skirt, dropped Lobuna and took up Trifaldi


    42. Then was seen stepping down from the carriage a gentleman in a short coat with silver braiding, with bald brow, and wearing a tuft of hair at the back of his head, of a sallow complexion and the most benign appearance


    43. Simply to glance at that flaxen, smoothly brushed head, at the tuft of hair he combed up on his forehead and oiled with sunflower oil, at that dignified mouth, compressed into the shape of the letter V, made one feel one was confronting a man who never doubted of himself


    44. so remarkable a distinction, as a black mossy tuft, out of which appeared


    45. I walked up the basement stairs and spotted a tuft of Zeke's fur in the carpet


    46. It was a small bird with a tuft of blue and green feathers


    47. Infuriated, Commander Farragut kept twisting the thick tuft of


    48. erected under a tuft of mangrove, in memory of the famous navigator and his companions


    49. Chingachgook, placing himself in a dignified posture on another fragment of the rock, had already laid aside his knife and tomahawk, and was in the act of taking the eagle's plume from his head, and smoothing the solitary tuft of hair in readiness to perform its last and revolting office


    50. But, here and there, a dark green tuft rose in the midst of the desolation; the earliest fruits of a soil that had been fattened with human blood




























    1. Heymon stepped from normal gravity at his door and drifted to the invisible tufted velvet seats Kelvin had adorned this space with today


    2. The disappointment on its chubby, tufted face at Mrs Pilfer's successful delivery of the foodstuff was very nearly heart-breaking, and it whimpered softly once it became apparent that the pie was not destined for the floor


    3. None of the others were there when Amaranthe and Maldynado returned to the cannery, though two knotted ropes hung from the rafters, their tufted ends dangling a foot from the floor


    4. A whinchat, with his tufted crest, makes a pit stop to refuel; snaffling a mosquito who naively considered she was safe tucked in a new stem of bananas


    5. The trees too were in their fullness, branches loaded with all manner of fruit and flowers—acorns bursting to seed, rowan petals clustered and so creamy-white Simon could almost smell their sweetness, aspen catkins tufted with tiny hairs


    6. “Dibs on that tufted sofa with the scroll legs, if you’re getting rid of it,” Christoff announced


    7. These last insane designs show tiny tufted feathers, and tiny wings coming out of a suit of armor so cunningly built, so light, so impenetrable: the person wearing it was invulnerable to all attack


    8. And the mountains will be like tufted wool


    9. And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,


    10. Vampa took this wild road, which, enclosed between two ridges, and shadowed by the tufted umbrage of the pines, seemed, but for the difficulties of its descent, that path to Avernus of which Virgil speaks

    11. A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows


    12. It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows


    13. His eyebrows were tufted and overhanging, which gave those naturally cold eyes an almost ferocious aspect, an impression which was increased by his strong and furrowed brow


    14. He had the short body, the big shoulders, the round chest, no neck, a great ruddy frill of a beard, the tufted eyebrows, the 'What do you want, damn you!' look about the eyes, and the whole catalogue


    15. She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at the tufted counterpane


    16. His beard was stained with tobacco juice and a large wad in his jaw made into witches’ locks and a lush growth of hair sprang from his ears, giving them the tufted look of a lynx’s ears


    17. About Archie’s face there was an alert waiting look and his tufted, hairy old ears seemed pricked up like made them raise their heads from their sewing at each sound of hooves in the road, at a lynx’s


    18. Farebrother came up the orchard walk, dividing the bright August lights and shadows with the tufted grass and the apple-tree boughs


    19. And makes her wave her tufted tail


    20. Patterned couches, melon-colored walls, a tufted leather ottoman for a coffee table

    21. A pair of tufted leather couches took up another corner, where two men in dark suits, white shirts, and clubby ties were just standing up


    22. Beyond them, high walls of rock beneath flat, tufted banks


    23. In the rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered a l'oiseau royal, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide blue ribbon: it was the king


    24. Quell reached out and touched my forehead with one of his long, finely tufted finger-legs and said, “Ishmael


    25. Satin tufted tester above me


    26. Strongly-marked horizontal eyebrows must be traced under that brow; then followed, naturally, a well-defined nose, with a straight ridge and full nostrils; then a flexible-looking mouth, by no means narrow; then a firm chin, with a decided cleft down the middle of it: of course, some black whiskers were wanted, and some jetty hair, tufted on the temples, and waved above the forehead


    27. I drove across the upraised thumb of Idaho and through real mountains that climbed straight up, tufted with pines and deep-dusted with snow


    28. ” I opened my pocket knife and moved to the creekside, where I cut a branch from a small willow tree, a Y-branch well tufted with leaves


    29. He lifted Charley in his arms and carried him out and laid him in the front seat of the convertible, and the tufted tail twittered against the leather


    30. A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows

    31. Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem's head


    32. Chief among these latter was a great Sperm Whale, which, after an unusually long raging gale, had been found dead and stranded, with his head against a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings seemed his verdant jet


    33. No tufted pines beside it grow, no osiers thrive around


    1. Was that fur she could spy tufting out of his trouser leg bottoms?


    1. Here again great tufts of undergrowth were plaiting


    2. he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and


    3. infinite number of tufts woven into the boot carpets of this modern, global,


    4. swaying tufts of long eared grass


    5. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet


    6. Out on the hard shoulder, cocooned within the thin metallic hull of his dilapidated Austin Metro, the small wee man in tweeds and corduroy had now counted for nearly an hour, but instead of marshalling his thoughts towards the infinite number of tufts woven into the boot carpets of this modern, global, automotive world, he found now that his concentration wavered


    7. The painted walls were swaying tufts of long eared grass


    8. sloping into wire caught tufts of white and black,


    9. he recognised the tufts of curly black hair and ruddy


    10. The chequerboard tile-work path is cracked and overgrown with tufts of new grass, the pale, washed-out petals of long dead hydrangea flowers and the straggling, early season buds of pink Campion

    11. box and lifted out the pendant, separating it carefully from the tufts of


    12. They had eight long legs, short active tails with tufts on the end and large wide flexible muzzles on the ends of their long heads


    13. Its coat was white with tufts of grey here and there


    14. A few of them were squirming trying to hold their guts in while some pulled their self back the way they had come with the aid of the grass tufts leaving trails of blood like garden slugs on the terrain whilst the few who hadn’t been hit turned and ran as fast as they could


    15. The vegetation is sparse, but they manage to eat tufts of grass growing between rocks


    16. After the yellow eyes, what I noticed most was its alert, pointed ears with little tufts of fur standing up at the tips like tiny flags


    17. Deep rifts where the material had been shredded and tufts of padding protruded


    18. The cat's large ears were erect, long tufts of hair lining the insides


    19. A great sense of pride and love swept over her as they rode through the rolling hills and tufts of heather, through the jumbles of rock and moss and undulating grass


    20. Tufts of hair would show where they rubbed against the trees, removing unwanted, scruffy last-season fur; to make way for the glossy new coat of autumn

    21. And the wind grew louder and stronger; the sands started to tear at their skin, lashing them like razor sharp tufts of steely grass


    22. The slaves had shaved heads and the convicts had tufts of hair


    23. Tears begin to stream down the priest's forehead and zigzag their way between spindly tufts of white hair before dripping on to the stage floor


    24. And, in an act of cruel irony, a few ferals even flaunt tufts of her hair—still rooted in chunks of bloody flesh—above their heads as trophies


    25. Fleas and mites have eaten away most of his fur, and the remaining tufts are matted with filth and dried blood


    26. horses were munching on some tufts of grass that were sticking up


    27. Everybody's helmet and shield and clothing were camouflaged with hanging bits of dry moss or spruce-branches or tufts of dry grass


    28. He began casually nuzzling a few tufts of grass that stuck through the ice


    29. The only thing he didn‘t like was tufts of black hair sticking out round the edges like a fungal growth, so he took the pouch off and shaved his groin


    30. Madeline Tufts worked for The Students' Workshop, an education service company that provided training and instruction to the State of Washington

    31. Under the creative guidance of Madeline Tufts the children entrusted to her care had created a complete society within the confines of their classroom


    32. The Caracal has tufts on its ears like the Lynx


    33. Most of it was covered with dirt with tufts of blue grass


    34. The nameless ship planed along the mist, tufts of green-white spraying up to her bowsprit as she plunged through the foggy waves


    35. Tufts University Study – The Economics of Phasing Out


    36. Economists Lisa Lynch of Tufts University and Sandra Black of the Federal Reserve Bank point out that studies show that American factories that are unionized and utilize the methods of participation and profit sharing for employees, such as those at the Saturn Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, are twenty percent more productive than the average similar company


    37. She snatched at the straw, fingers pulling out tufts but she knew it was pointless


    38. Across the intersection, Callen grips tufts of hair in his fists and mouths, “What are you doing?!”


    39. After the site is comparatively weed-free, tufts of lawn grass can be


    40. Planting with tufts of grasses is always preferable and cheaper than to sowing lawn

    41. In India most lawns are made by planting tufts only


    42. He placed his hands up on the tufts of grass and went to


    43. The loner lowered his head to the green tufts under his


    44. the drifting tufts of white


    45. Tacitus shoulders sagged as they could hear Bellona munching on tufts of grass nearby, "It is, isn't it


    46. The hair on his head is all in tufts and his skull is pocked with cuts


    47. Little cotton-puff tufts to the south quickly turn baby pink, in a blatant challenge to the sky’s baby blue and earth’s eastward ceiling’s overcast goes in for all the shades of lavender it can manage just this side of purple


    48. she felt tufts of hair spread across her scalp, and she started to cry


    49. He went further up the stream, pulling long tufts of yellow grass


    50. Tall blades of grass as high as her knees grew in tufts along the shore





































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    Synonyms for "tuft"

    tuft tussock clump batch group knot bundle cluster

    "tuft" definitions

    a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass


    a bunch of feathers or hair