55 examples of white-head in sentences

Hodge, the farmer's boy, took off his hat, and Polly, the milk-maid, bobbed a curtsey, as the chaise whirled over the pleasant village-green, and the white-headed children lifted their chubby faces and cheered.

There were men of all ages amongst them, from about eighteen years old to white-headed men past sixty.

So quiet, indeed, was its progress that Karl Steinmetzsuddenly white-headed, as strong old men are apt to find themselvesdid not heed its approach.

But he was old and white-headed, and bade the Duke give the standard to some younger and stronger man to carry.

In the cars in New England you see white-headed men, and I kept one in the train up to New York, and one of grayish-tinted hair as far as Erie; but after Cleveland, no man was over forty years old.

Z. Gray, in a note on these lines, quotes Selden's note on Drayton's Polyolbion:'About the year 1570, Madoc, brother to David Ap Owen, Prince of Wales, made a sea-voyage to Florida; and by probability those names of Capo de Breton in Norimberg, and Penguin in part of the Northern America, for a white rock and a white-headed bird, according to the British, were relicts of this discovery.'

" Thus secretly in his heart did the frank and noble Orlando lament over his new feelings; and no wonder; for every knight in the hall was enamoured of the beautiful stranger, not excepting even old white-headed Duke Namo.

When the little white-headed country-boy of an inland farmstead lights upon a book which shapes his course in life, five times out of six the volume of his destiny will turn out to be "Robinson Crusoe."

And how often he crouched and whined, white-headed and bare-headed all day, and did not get a lepton (which was, in value, thirty-one three hundred thirty-sixths of an English farthing) for his pains!

And he would have argued the point longer with Jeanne, but he had no time left, for the riders had already turned into the courtyard, and were giving their horses in charge to the white-headed ostler Benoit.

They passed out of sight behind the trees of an island, one close upon the other, and I do not know how the controversy ended; but I would have wagered a trifle on the old white-head, the bird of Washington.

There is in particular a white-headed eagle or kite, upon whose flight and cries they put great reliance, and consult them in war or on any particular expedition.

Do you think you have behaved to me as an elder ought?to me, a poor young thing, looking for and sadly requiring the guidance of my white-headed sister?

The White-headed, or Bald Eagle. Stephen Elliott, 1771-1830 257.

For instance, among the rapacious birds, we have the three Eagles which visit America, the White-Headed, the Washington, and the Golden or Royal Eagle.

Circular Aviary for Birds of Prey containing a fine griffon vulture, a white-headed North American eagle, hawks, falcons, and owls; among the latter is the great horned owl.

"It would have been an extraordinary circumstance truly," she said, "that a man should have grown white-headed on the seas, and never have been struck with so noble a spectacle.

While he and Holmes were counting out the bills, a little white-headed girl crept shyly in at the door, and came up to the table,oddly dressed, in an old-fashioned frock fastened with great horn buttons, and with an old-fashioned anxious pair of eyes, the color of blue Delft.

He was a little black man and white-headed as cotton, when he died.

It was used, also, to drive away the white-headed eagle, which they did not care to catch.

Bog read well now, and had learned to love those repositories of wit and wisdom with almost as keen a relish as the venerable white-headed listener.

men of all ages, the young and strong, and the old and white-headed?

Old Shemaiah did not say, 'Surely an old white-headed man like myself cannot be expected to do anything.'

Well may the old white-headed man who has charge of that book bring it out with pride, for it is one of the oldest books in the world.

A pair of white-headed sea-eagles had established their aerie in a tree not more than twenty feet from the ground, and I could not resist the temptation of robbing them of their eggs.

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