1 His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
2 She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.
3 The result was a small brown and white Shetland pony with a long silky mane and tail and a tiny sidesaddle with silver trimmings.
4 The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 5 In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 6 He was escaping with his prize when a young girl rushed from the house and grabbed the animal's mane.
7 She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
8 Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written.
9 A beauty, with a white face and a mane as black as night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 10 He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 11 Rostov lifted his head that had sunk almost to his horse's mane and pulled up beside the hussar.
12 A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.
13 A little behind, on a poor, small, lean Kirghiz mount with an enormous tail and mane and a bleeding mouth, rode a young officer in a blue French overcoat.
14 The barricade once scaled had a mane of lightning flashes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 15 Aramis, wounded as he was, seized the mane of his horse, which carried him on with the others.