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Use in Literature

Dishevelling

All of them were disheveled, dilapidated, and grimy to the last degree, except the Hochwaldian, who still sat his horse, which he had ridden into the patio.–Samuel Hopkins Adams in The Unspeakable Perk.

Her tresses, which the breeze still wantonly Assaults, dishevelled on her shoulders beat.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

L Some Farfarello, or Alchino he, I think, whom in that form she raised from hell; And with loose hair, dishevelled horribly, Ungirt and barefoot, mounted in the sell.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

He looked at my torn gingham frock, naked legs, tennis shoes and dishevelled curls under an orange turban; and I stood still and gazed at him.–Margot Asquith in An Autobiography, vols 1,2.

His lunging progress followed by curses and startled cries of feminine indignation, he at length emerged upon the opposite sidewalk, and, breathless and disheveled, he burst into the headquarters of the Voiceless Speech.–The Sturdy Oak (A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors)

Once started on that theme, Gennaro reaches the most dishevelled pathos that any German professor of philosophy ever spluttered to his audience.–Honoré de Balzac in Beatrix.

These pictures of Foedora and her luxurious surroundings haunted me even in my bare, cold garret, when at last I reached it, as disheveled as any naturalist's wig.–Honoré de Balzac in The Magic Skin (tr Ellen Marriage).

It is a great disheveled highway, traveled only by bullets and by ranks and files of shells, that have furrowed and upheaved it, covered it with the earth of the fields, scooped it and laid bare its bones.–Henri Barbusse in Under Fire.

The crest of our trench stands forth, jagged and dishevelled, and I see, stuck to the outer wall every five paces like upright caterpillars, the shadows of the watchers. Their rifles are revealed beside them by a few spots of light.–Henri Barbusse in Under Fire.

He looked dishevelled, but not at all embarrassed.–Harold Bindloss in The Girl From Keller's.

• Prefaceiv
• Use in Literature1
• Dishevelling1
• Dishevelling – "Appeared"6
• Dishevelling – "Arms"7
• Dishevelling – "Eyes"7
• Dishevelling – "Figure"8
• Dishevelling – "Girl"9
• Dishevelling – "Hair"9
• Dishevelling – "Hands"12
• Dishevelling – "Head"13
• Dishevelling – "Herself"13
• Dishevelling – "Locks"14
• Dishevelling – "Men"15
• Dishevelling – "Room"16
• Dishevelling – "Wild"16
• Dishevelling – "Woman"17
• Dishevelling – "Young"17
• Lexicographic Usage19
• Index25