4.] Milton thus pourtrays our first parent, Adam: 'His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthin locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clus'tring, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

He ran his fingers through his hair so that the brown forelock stood away from the grey.

"James, sir," answered the other, touching his damp forelock.

No amount of wetting or greasing could subdue that irrepressible forelock.

There would come a look of furtive respect into the creature's eyes and an attempt to touch the matted forelock.

If I were upon the high road to fame, if I had honestly determined to win immortality or perish in the attempt, I should look upon the gentleman with no clothing except a scanty forelock, and with no personal property save his scythe and hour-glass, as my greatest enemy,and I should behold the perpetual efforts made to kill him with perfect complacency.

There, o'er his dogrose fence, the chestnut foal, Shaking his silver forelock, proudly stands, To snuff the balmy fragrance of the morn: Up comes his ebon compeer, and, anon, Around the field in mimic chase they fly, Startling the echoes of the woodland gloom.

Perhaps it was the blond forelock.

It was only when you looked closely that you noticed a fleck of golden brown in the cold grey of each eye, and a streak of warm brown forming an unquenchable forelock that the conquering grey had not been able to vanquish.