How To Use Shaggy In A Sentence

  • He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair.
  • Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
  • The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top.
  • With a mane of shaggy white hair and beard, he looked like the archetypal wild old man of the woods.
  • The pony was old, and had been Asa's own for three years, ever since Asa's older brother, Oberon, had handed him down when he had grown out of the shaggy brown pony.
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  • Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
  • He had medium length shaggy black hair and bright green eyes.
  • Glorak stood next to a pair of shaggy plants, gnarled with yellow vines and hung with multicolored, fruitlike pods. Delta Anomaly
  • So you can scoff and snicker all you like at the shaggy, hangdog 27-year-old next door dressed in a baggy college sweatshirt and cargo shorts, taking empty pizza boxes and beer bottles to the dumpster. Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude
  • At first it was so dark that he couldn't make out anything, but in a little while he could see something big and black and shaggy coming toward him, and a grillery-growlery voice called out: Uncle Wiggily's Travels
  • Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
  • A willingness to accept untidiness: shaggy hedges, hairy field margins, trees, fallen branches, unkept bits, tangly bits, squashy bits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Monarch's shaggy breast and never "fazed" him, nobody openly doubted Bears I Have Met—and Others
  • Zeke leaned over, his white-gloved hands splayed on the counter, and his shaggy, ruffled black hair forming a cowlick.
  • Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery. Westward Ho!
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  • He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin.
  • Viewers rooted for the Virginia kid with shaggy brown hair and glasses, who fidgeted with his hands as he spelled such words as "oriflamme" and "sophrosyne. 'Fustanella' is N.Va. teen's killer bee word
  • He was despicable, missing teeth and looking very shaggy with the messiest mound of hair resting atop his head.
  • The green contours are also lay-of-the-land and the bunkers are hand-dug, some edged by tall layers of stacked sod, others by shaggy tufts of native grass.
  • The hair of their heads and faces grew long and shaggy, while their garments would have disgusted a ragpicker. In a Far Country
  • Nodding, he arched a shaggy eyebrow at me sloshing coffee into a cup.
  • Dark blonde hair was cropped short and shaggy, hanging attractively though it was obviously meant to be slicked back from a high, proud brow.
  • The green contours are also lay-of-the-land and the bunkers are hand-dug, some edged by tall layers of stacked sod, others by shaggy tufts of native grass.
  • His mane has grown long and shaggy, visually appealing and attractive, and he asked for a silver and diamond stud instead of a dangler for his translator.
  • He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard. For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War
  • What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas.
  • He agreed with his friends on this point, that the stranger must be either English or American, the name Britannia leading them to suppose this, and, besides, through the bushy beard, and under the shaggy, matted hair, the engineer thought he could recognize the characteristic features of the Anglo-Saxon. The Mysterious Island
  • Shaggy's master received a glossy brochure to a whiz-bang two-day seminar in Melbourne.
  • Where else can you see such megastars as Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell and Christian Slater sporting bouffant coifs, shaggy sideburns and sequined jackets?
  • Shaggy's enjoyed our fair share of kind offers to have our anatomy enlarged, become an ordained minister online or join a deceased dictator's family in spiriting millions of dollars out of Africa.
  • In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.
  • The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh.
  • Some quietly, like Nick Nolte as a gravel-voiced trainer-turned-owner, seeking redemption for a lost horse; and some loudly, most notably Kevin Dunn channeling Dennis Franz as a dyspectic gambler in a wheelchair, part of a gang of four shaggy underdogs including a scraggly Jason Gedrick, plus Ian Hart and Ritchie Coster who end up with a personal stake in what horse makes it to the winners' circle. Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
  • The eyes, slow of movement and heavy-lidded, were almost expressionless under the shaggy, indrawn brows. A PIECE OF STEAK
  • Sporting an unkempt beard and shaggy crop, he makes Robinson Crusoe look like GQ's Man of the Year.
  • shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs
  • He was wearing a kalpak -- the head-gear of the cossack, which would make a high priest look outlawed, and a shaggy goat-skin coat that had seen more than one campaign. The Eye of Zeitoon
  • He was about 6 ' 4 " with shaggy, chin length, chocolate-coloured hair and a covering of stubble across his chin.
  • The young woman noticed its shaggy fur was receding and looked to see the moon disappearing behind another cloud.
  • She took a bow, and he grinned as he scratched his shaggy head.
  • She glanced over and saw that even Walter's shaggy fur had taken on a touch of glamour, and Bill's looked much like her own.
  • Most of the bands we knew started playing emo, got the shaggy haircuts and started wearing tight t-shirts.
  • The moonlight glinted off its shaggy fur, shining off the pale wings sprouting from its back.
  • Instead of getting all vexed, Scooby and Shaggy-style, they should have thanked his blonde temp ... tress (Ali Larter doing a bargain basement impression of Sharon Stone at her most bargain basement) for adding some excitement to their lives. Fourfour:
  • Giuffre said he was still "babying" the greens by allowing the grass to get shaggy in the heat. SI.com
  • Its face, beneath a shaggy fall of raven black curls, was delicately shaped and as stark as bone, with no hint of rosy cheek or kind intention.
  • The Sumatran rhino's body is covered in a patchy coat of shaggy hair.
  • Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
  • Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes.
  • He was about as tall as the other man, with shaggy blonde hair and deep chestnut brown eyes.
  • His blondish brown hair was shaggy, and hung down to his glasses.
  • The best of all these is the shaggy hat, for it makes a very neat abstersion of the fecal matter. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • When Ting returns to the fight club, he's obliged to defend the honour of Thai womanhood from a shaggy Australian behemoth.
  • In amazement, Ms. K looks at the misshapen creatures surrounded by tufts of shaggy hair.
  • Sedbergh-based Farfield Mill is hoping those with an eye for plush interiors will warm to its new designer rugs and runners woven from the shaggy fleeces of Kendal Rough Fell sheep.
  • I looked into that face, that pale face, buff body, shaggy black hair, and red eyes.
  • At the base, there stood a black horse with a thick shaggy pelt and another dark grey one.
  • The son blows the horn, pounds his fake fur-covered chest, then the shaggy tribe squats in a circle, rips the warthog wide open with their hands and teeth, and begins to gorge. The Memory Palace
  • [82] A gaberdine is a shaggy cloak of coarse but warm materials. The Odyssey of Homer
  • I looked hot, lounging between the guy with the cut-just-so shaggy hair, placed around his head to give the impression of being unkept, and the girl in the 50-dollar hippie skirt.
  • She recognized the shaggy brown locks that fell in waves around his boyish face, belying the fact that he was her senior by a handful of years.
  • During the season, shear off faded blooms or cut back plants if they look shaggy; fertilize afterward.
  • Ah, ha!" cried the bear, for the shaggy creature with the grillery-growlery voice was a bear. Uncle Wiggily's Travels
  • On a certain autumnal Saturday afternoon about seventy-five or more years ago two men entered Willow Glen by the highway from the west, leading between them a wild, shaggy animal, a buffalo recently capured on the prairies, being the first one seen in this part of the country. Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives
  • The deep angry remonstrant eyes, the shaggy eyebrows, telling tales of frequent anger — of anger frequent but generally silent — the repressed indignation of the habitual frown, the long nose and large powerful mouth, the deep furrows on the cheek, and the general look of thought and suffering, all combined to make the appearance of the man remarkable, and to describe to the beholders at once his true character. The Last Chronicle of Barset
  • He had thick brown hair and shaggy brows.
  • -- the Gang of Six is also the pussiest gang since Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby. The Gang Of Six: Dickipedia
  • The deception was possibly due to the presence of loose and shaggy membrane attached to the endocardial lining of the heart, or in some cases to echinococci or trichine. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The Shaggy Man found his bed = soft and luxurious, so he slipped off his shaggy clothes, carefully = arranging them on a chair so that not one frill or furbelow was out of = place, put on the pajamas which Conjo had also provided for him, and = slipped into bed. The Shaggy Man of Oz
  • White, cream and wintry pale beige hues in conjunction with sheepskin, polar skin, shaggy furs and plenty of quilts conjure up polar expedition gear.
  • He had long, shaggy and uncombed flaming red hair.
  • Shaggy yaks tread the icy pastures, their huge bodies belying their importance in mountain life.
  • At the base, there stood a black horse with a thick shaggy pelt and another dark grey one.
  • It was natural, of course, that he should be called a bloodhound; and it did not occur to any one in Regina that his height, his fleetness, and his shaggy black and iron-gray coat were anything but typical of the bloodhound. Jan A Dog and a Romance
  • He had shaggy brown hair and a little scruff on his face that looked as if he had slacked a little on shaving for the summer.
  • I also discovered what a kistvaen is by the simple process of falling into one (a burial hole ill-covered by a cracked and unbalanced slab of stone), and we met a herd of immensely shaggy, long-horned highland cattle, looking very much like prehistoric creatures recently risen from some weed-grown swamp. The Moor
  • He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud.
  • Great use of sound, lighting and camera angles draw you in to this absurdly eerie little shaggy-dog story.
  • Their big shaggy komondor sheepdogs with matted dreadlock pelts stayed close at heel.
  • Intent on climbing, all she could see of him was the top of his head, which sprouted a shaggy growth of dirty blonde hair that barely brushed his shoulders in elegant, sweaty and tangled locks.
  • We hover close enough that I can see the matted clumps in the bear's shaggy, pale brown coat.
  • Reading it made me think that it might be helpful to create a list of the characters populating this shaggy doggish story to date. An Exquisite Corpse Adventure Who’s Who « educating alice
  • ‘Fine,’ He huffed brushing his shaggy black hair out of his eyes.
  • Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
  • A shaggy, blonde guy answered the door and smiled.
  • Which is odd because, up until now, she has rather resembled a llama herself, with her slightly shaggy hair, other-worldly expression and dainty, measured paces.
  • His shaggy forelock of dark hair was sticking up oddly over his shocked eyes.
  • It trucked off seven semi loads of toxic material, though it left behind the dead shaggy bark juniper and pinon pines that had been poisoned by fumes from the lab.
  • A shaggy cloth, though coarsely woven and loose in texture, will be found warmer than an equally heavy cloth which is woven compactly, and which has been sheared, carded and teazled.
  • The peak was scalloped into two shaggy wings across its western exposure, which made it appear to be embracing the cove.
  • He was a handsome young man of about three and twenty, but his shaggy mop of dark brown hair attributed to him a certain adorable boyish quality.
  • They all had a variety of hair styles; mullets, colored Mohawks, long shaggy hair, sleek spikes.
  • Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy.
  • Better still, Shaggy and Rahzel bring toasting and human beatbox to ‘Bam Bam’.
  • The large beaked nose framed by drooping shaggy eyebrows emphasizes his ethnicity.
  • The shaggy whiskers, almost bare in places, and in others massing into bunchgrass-like clumps, were plentifully splashed with gray. CHAPTER 22
  • Michael scratched his shaggy brown hair, embarrassed at the Secret Service agent's commanding, drawn out voice.
  • If Titi hadn't paid his dial, that shaggy hair'd make you abram. Exodus From The Long Sun
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  • Layered shaggy styles flatter the pear shape face.
  • Her shaggy, ragged coat, thick with its winter growth, was still not enough to keep out the biting cold that had come with last night's ice storm.
  • It has narrow, angled wings, a deeply forked tail, and a shaggy crest.
  • It had become quite dark, the thunder was continually pealing, the lightning gleaming flash after flash, and every now and then sudden gusts of wind would get hold of the big _lichi_ tree by the neck and give its shaggy top a thorough shaking. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore
  • While crossing the 1200m Pelion Gap, below Mt Ossa, Tassie's highest mountain, Shaggy's hiking group got hit by a blizzard, hurling down the full box and dice of sleet, hail, snow and rain.
  • Policemen filed in; one or two cases were tried and dismissed, the Malay witnesses trembling from head to foot, and then the wretch from the cage was brought in looking hardly human, as, from under his shaggy, unshaven hair and unplaited pigtail which hung over his chest, he cast furtive, frightened glances at the array before him. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • On the small dambos and edges of floodplains reedbuck and puku graze on the short grass while shaggy-haired waterbuck pop up here and there in the most unlikely places.
  • His shaggy black hair was now slowly changing to a rusty reddish brown color, almost his natural color.
  • Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes.
  • A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
  • He had long shaggy dirty blond hair almost completely covering his eyes; he had a two-day-old beard forming on his cheeks and chin.
  • There was the shaggy creature, which might have been fallow under Urth's sun, streaked with black yet still skipping with frantic energy; even as I saw him, Sidero's caliver blotched him more. The Urth of the New Sun
  • The stem is quite slender and the cap and gills quite thin as compared with the shaggy-mane and ink-cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • But the reward was generous - a tremulous rainbow arched over the mountains, shaggy with greenery.
  • It was a big shaggy thing loping along the side of the road.
  • They are covered with dense, long, shaggy fur made up of thick hairs with longitudinal grooves.
  • At the end of a date with Arzu, Mehmet is riding the bus home when a shaggy, wild-eyed man boards and sits next to him.
  • The image of shaggy woodsmen breaking camp at season's end, headed out in the pre-dawn darkness with their photographs carefully tucked away in their packs, is rather touching.
  • The child's blonde hair was growing slightly long, now just becoming shaggy.
  • He had shaggy black hair, yellowed teeth and foul, nauseating breath.
  • This old man shaved his shaggy black beard.
  • If far on the Delhi way around him galvanic they dance it is merely to wear wear from his shaggy body the tranced wish forever to stay only an ambling bear four-footed in berries 2009 June 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • He was tall and muscular with shaggy black hair with a beard.
  • I have a hard time imagining that this character in the novels is quite the shaggy surfer dude with a vestigial southern accent and laid back roguish charms that he is in the film.
  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos. Chicago Reader
  • The youth shook his shaggy head.
  • Shaggy parked there on a recent visit and went to feed the meter.
  • It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
  • A boy with shaggy auburn hair halted in his steps and looked around, perturbed.
  • But the musicker was still breathing his constant Oom, pom-pom; Oom pom-pom -- and it seemed to jar on the shaggy man's nerves. Love Letters
  • But the reward was generous - a tremulous rainbow arched over the mountains, shaggy with greenery.
  • Had Mr Sawbridge made his appearance in uniform it might have been different, but that a plain-looking man, with black whiskers, shaggy hair, and old blue frock-coat and yellow casimere waistcoat, should venture to address him in such a manner, was quite incomprehensible; -- he calls me mad, thought Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • These actions cause the eye, beak and face to vanish beneath the shaggy white ruff.
  • Who are you?" asked the shaggy creature with the grillery-growlery voice, and the bear gnashed his teeth. Uncle Wiggily's Travels
  • Not only do the shaggy creatures trample down invasive bracken but they treat heather and bilberry with respect - unlike sheep, which munch the delicate shoots to extinction.
  • And unlike his recent environmental-advocacy pictures of overcut forests, Robert Adams 's "Sally, Weld County, Colo." 1984 captures a cute, shaggy white dog standing in the middle of an endless dirt road running through broad plains, with a single tree on the right and a few puffs of white cloud in the bright Western sky. The Self and Others
  • His left eye under its shaggy eyebrow regarded me with keen amusement.
  • The thick shaggy coat of the mountain goat prepares it for the rigours of the Rocky Mountains' winter.
  • His hair, a soft ginger-brown color, was short and shaggy from his brow and over the crown of his head, but lengthened a sizable amount in the back, where it was tied off.
  • The man was extremely tall and lanky with dark, heavy bags under his eyes and long shaggy hair.
  • I dowsed myself in cold water, but the plastic razor was blunt and could not cut through my shaggy beard. Henry’s Demons
  • The Steller's Jay is a striking bird with deep blue and black plumage and a long, shaggy crest.
  • He is incognito, with a blond wig, shaggy mustache and large gold-framed aviator glasses.
  • Giasone's dissipation was signaled by his unknotted tuxedo tie; the Argo was a modern speedboat; Isifile had a pink minidress with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat; the Golden Fleece was a big, shaggy coat; and Delfa's outfit was channeling Dame Edna. On a Tattered Shoestring
  • While the others hop into my lap, seeking affection, Chico prefers to curl up to Natty, our shaggy Great Pyrenees mix. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat
  • He had the ragged look she recognized as Vegas having run somebody down - shaggy dark hair hid his face, but his hands were callused, one thin scar creeping up the back of his hand toward his wrist. Friday!
  • Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • One of the Bedouins explains: Swalem is a full-blooded Sinai camel, with smaller feet to cope with an uneven rocky terrain and a shaggy coat to cope with the cold found at altitude.
  • He has an obscene amount of muscles and an unfortunate shaggy mullet hairstyle.
  • His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.
  • Lepiota rhacodes, the smaller shaggy parasol, is even shaggier and has flesh which stains red when cut.
  • Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the reporters chattering nervously.
  • In answer to Dianne's question, Jocelyn says that Roman Chamomile is very tough and has sweet smelling white flowers, but may grow shaggy and need mowing.
  • Then I ramble through pygmy pine trees with shaggy bark, and mountain mahogany bushes with long white flowers that twist up like corkscrews.
  • Pay attention as it cuts its way among the hills that cluster close to the palisades of the Kentucky River, where the countryside begins to undulate, forming a thousand tiny hillocks and dells, all covered with grass picked shaggy by  grazing cattle. Driving directions
  • I got to the front, and was pleasantly surprised to find that, instead of horses, two quaint looking, shaggy little ponies had been pulling us along.
  • Akos poked his great shaggy head around the frame and looked at her.
  • _Chorda filum_, many feet in length, lie aslant in the tideway; long shaggy bunches of _Fucus serratus_ and _Fucus nodosus_ droop heavily from the rock sides; while the flatter ledges, that form the uneven floor upon which we tread, bristle thick with the stiff, cartilaginous, many-cleft fronds of at least two species of chondrus, -- the common carrageen, and the smaller species, _C. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • He was standing with his back to me, but from this angle, he appeared to have a very nice tan, as well as a shaggy mop of golden blonde hair.
  • Looking at the fine print on the election handouts for the Chant and King teams, Shaggy spotted a familiar name authorising them.
  • During the actual weaving, tufts of fleece were sometimes knotted into the weave to anchor them, creating a fabric with a hairy or shaggy finish.
  • Here and there fierce duellos among rival bulls took place for the possession of some shaggy one of the softer sex.
  • The somber youth looked at her from underneath his shaggy bangs, and blinked.
  • I pass my hands lovingly almost the flat peel of a silver birch, alternatively the coarse shaggy bark of a pine.
  • Pale bales of leather, all undyed, were in shaggy rolls like giant pastry.
  • His light brown hair, which had been clean cut, was shaggy now.
  • They have horses and ponies, but the yak is the beast of burden, and he supplies them with his long shaggy coat with plenty of wool (which they export and from which they make their clothes), and also supplies them with milk. The Assault on Everest
  • The sakis, bearded sakis, and uakaris belong to the subfamily Pitheciinae and all have long shaggy hair.
  • I feel the dedicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
  • Methinks I see the pair upon the mountains of Tipperary -- John with a beard of three inches, united and blended with his shaggy black locks, an ellwand-looking cane with Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
  • Decades before the Civil War astute observers noticed a decline in bison numbers and predicted that, like the great auk, the shaggy beasts would ultimately disappear. Between War and Peace
  • Hips: the coxa; q.v. Hirsute: clothed with long, strong hair; shaggy. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • The eyes, slow of movement and heavy-lidded, were almost expressionless under the shaggy, indrawn brows. A PIECE OF STEAK
  • Thrillers, adventures, childhood yarns, shaggy dog stories, ‘straight’ fiction written with humour, heart and psychological insight.
  • Their peduncles are crinite, with shaggy patent hairs.
  • Mason looks adorable with an edgy undercut shaved into his famously shaggy, long brown head of hair.
  • That winter-shaggy warhorse was no courser, but only a Sothoii - or someone with a prince's purse - could own its equal.
  • You take away the impression that you've been spun a shaggy parrot story told by a sideshow huckster, albeit with attention-grabbing skill.
  • I knew then that the wild conjecture I had been trying to dismiss was the simple truth: Zak had been the shaggy, bounding apport we had hunted in the hold. The Urth of the New Sun
  • On the small dambos and edges of floodplains reedbuck and puku graze on the short grass while shaggy-haired waterbuck pop up here and there in the most unlikely places.
  • I never tell him that I think that with his thick brown eyebrows (like caterpillars), shaggy beard and thick glasses he looks like an intelligent bear.
  • His thick brown hair was spiked, but shaggy at the same time.
  • He had the ragged look she recognized as Vegas having run somebody down - shaggy dark hair hid his face, but his hands were callused, one thin scar creeping up the back of his hand toward his wrist. Friday!
  • Gone, too, are the old duffle coat, huge glasses and shaggy hairstyle. The Sun
  • The feline bristled its shaggy fur and started to stand.
  • The farm belongs to rancher Ramon Sierra, who, with son-in-law Hector Soto Vargas, is providing sturdy Patagonian criollo horses, still shaggy in their winter coats, to get us up the Soler.
  • Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
  • His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.
  • The trunk, shaggy in old trees, rises with nearly uniform diameter to the point of furcation, throwing out rather small branches of unequal length and irregularly disposed, forming an oblong or rounded head with frequent gaps in the continuity of the foliage. Handbook of the Trees of New England
  • The dog, for instance, exists as the great, shaggy Newfoundland or St. Bernard, or as the tight girted greyhound, as the petted poodle or the despised "yellow dog;" but in every case he is a dog, and not a wolf, and his fellow dogs recognize him as such, too. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
  • ‘Handshake Drugs’ is a meandering guitar ditty, with a shaggy-dog beat and some harmless piano bosh for window dressing.
  • He had thick brown hair and shaggy brows.
  • At the start Bolt had clowned around, just as he did in Rome, entertaining the crowds by pretending to play a piano, rubbing his hands over his chest to Shaggy's Mr Boombastic and singing "Mr Lover Lover". Usain Bolt labours in Ostrava but still no one can catch him
  • We haven't even gotten to Birdman's opposing counsel, Spyro, a literal drama queen who phrases most of his arguments in Shakespearean meter (his version of Shaggy and Scooby's pot bust is titled, "As You Smok't It"). Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives
  • The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance.
  • The short-horned kind, with its hump and shaggy mane, was also fairly common east of the mountains; it closely resembled the familiar wisent of Europe. A different flesh
  • From the top, this could be Macrolepiota rachodes, the shaggy parasol, edible and choice.
  • His hair had begun to grow back, now slightly shaggy instead of fuzzy.
  • His shaggy mane of grizzled grey hair was in desperate need of a wash and a trim.
  • Kelsie Harder The State University College at Potsdam Caryl Johnston Boston, Massachusetts Notes from the Compound World According to the famed mytho-grammarian Maxim Mütter, compounds (snow-white, rose-red, upsy-daisy, shaggy-dog, etc.) are the harbingers of a new epoch of consciousness. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1

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