How To Use Wiry In A Sentence

Science is not all white coats and wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
Barefoot and wiry, his leathered face looks older than his 29 years.
His body is wiry and athletic.
Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.

SAMSON - Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. News | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.
She was still slender and wiry despite her demanding job teaching at Harvard University.
He had short, wiry brown hair, most of which was covered by the hat he wore.
Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
He was probably in his mid fifties, with wiry build and silver hair.
Today he's a small wiry man with weather-beaten tanned skin, an equally small moustache, sparkly eyes and a ready grin.
A diminutive, wiry figure, he sits, smoking roll-ups and nursing a cup of black coffee, in the corner of his ground floor study in north London.
Her brown eyes are intelligent and searching and her long wiry dark hair has been cut into a short pixie-style cut and dyed honey brown.
He had really wiry, fuzzy hair and would prune it like he did with his beard. The Sun
His body is wiry and athletic.
Sure she was wiry, but her businesslike combination of grey slacks and white blouse suggested someone quite demure.
Science is not all white coats and wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
Flashing a parole identification card, the wiry Drummondville native explains that although he'd like to sample the occasional quaff in a pub, he'll have to wait until age 69 before he can.
For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
His facial features were Negroid, but his skin was the color of paste, covered with large moles as thick and irregular in shape as drops of mud, his wiry hair peroxided a bright gold. The Glass Rainbow
She was as wiry as a trimmed olive branch, and just as dark.
My horse is small but wiry and sure-footed.
Use some conditioner to calm down the wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
He was lean and wiry, but muscled, and there was strength in him.
Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
His wiry form was scrubbed and dressed in garb that young men normally wear only to funerals and for appearances before the headmaster. Times, Sunday Times
Both the blue and the yellow have the classic, satiny translucent petals of the poppy tribe, both, characteristically, are held on wiry stems above the parent plant.
He was a rock-climbing instructor who had the wiry, efficient build of a cowhand.
Her tiny wiry body is driven by a heart so full of guts and determination. Times, Sunday Times
Beatrice's father was a wiry, elderly-looking gentleman with a frizzy gray goatee and a bent, hawkish nose.
The hair greys at the temples and his physique, slimmed by the rigours of his expedition, is wiry and athletic. Times, Sunday Times
Behaving like wiry, wired adolescents on a merry spree, this extrovert community breathes fresh air into the mechanics of daily existence.
He had really wiry, fuzzy hair and would prune it like he did with his beard. The Sun
He remained slim and wiry, but he felt firmer in the hug, as if his compact frame had built a subtle layer of muscle. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Krupa (a distant cousin of Gene Krupa), is a tiny woman, wiry and wired, who gets a big sound from her piano; her bright blue eyes dominate her face, and her words -- frequently self-deprecating -- tumble out allegro staccatissimo in a Chicago accent you could cut with a knife. Chicago Reader
She was 5'7, slim and wiry, with a dancer's slow, precise grace in her movements.
Would I ever get to see his tall, wiry frame, blue eyes, dark hair, or friendly smile again?
He was wiry but compact, like a spring wound so tight it's ready to pop.
The silly, dancing, posturing, wiry movements, and the facial distortion observed in Huntington's chorea would hardly be mistaken by a careful observer for athetosis. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Physically, he is a wonderful man…very wiry, and full of energy and go.
His dark eyes sparkled with life and amusement from the mass of black wiry hair that covered his face.
I remembered him as being tall, slight, grey, rather wiry, perhaps in his early sixties and a bit dyspeptic. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The vegetation is a short sparse wiry grassland dominated by Loudetia simplex, which is used as a fine thatching grass, and Monocymbium ceresiiforme. Western Zambezian grasslands
Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
Ingrown hairs and razor bumps happen when hair is cut beneath surface level or is wiry or curly.
He was incredibly short, fat and stocky, with a tuft of balding, wiry hair sticking straight up as if he'd just clambered out of bed.
About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
Sure she was wiry, but her businesslike combination of grey slacks and white blouse suggested someone quite demure.
The crinal hair is hard and wiry, growing, like that of a half-caste First footsteps in East Africa
Science is not all white coats and wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
His wiry, lipless, lock-jawed intensity here reveals only profound movie-nuking miscasting. Times, Sunday Times
Ixias have flat one inch to one and one-half inch flowers on top of wiry 10 to 15-inch stems.
He tucked it under his wiry forearm and smiled at me with what I took to be an underhanded beneficence.
The little wiry bushes that grow all over Yosemite seem to be barely scathed by the flames in places, a tribute to their hardiness.
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And as for Miller, the slight, wiry frame is the same, the lank hair slightly longer, but there still seems enough about his game to make a difference to a club that has been toiling.
The wiry, plangent sound of Kurosaki's 1801 violin is perfectly complemented by the percussive but singing tone of Linda Nicholson's Viennese fortepiano, especially effective in the powerful C minor Sonata Op 30 No 2. Beethoven: violin sonatas vol 4, op 30 nos 1 - 3; violin sonatas 'Kreutzer' op 47, no 10 op 96
The nervous, wiry man in front of me has decided to embark on some last-minute negotiations. Times, Sunday Times
All of a sudden, out of the very depths of the monument a little wiry man jumped out waving his hands about a lot.
For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Small but wiry, he moves gingerly around the room. Times, Sunday Times
A tall dark being stood in the pouring rain, soaking black cloak pulled tight around a wiry figure against the cold, hood pulled up and shadowing a dark face.
He vaguely remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement. Empty Windows, Empty Rooms
He was a small, spare, wiry man, highly intelligent, with unusual gifts of persuasion and leadership.
The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
Half an hour later, a fit-looking wiry man with a pleasant smile has joined us.
The Pact includes: religious iconography, a stultified house, a sexy tough girl protagonist played with equal parts fragility and ferocity by Caity Lotz, a newly-dead and much-despised mother, a serial killer on the loose, a fragile girlwoman with raccoon eyes who sees dead people, wiry bald men slithering through small spaces, a hot cop who would like to save the day, but instead provides the movie's nod to gore. Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Pact
The darker-skinned and wiry subofficer hurried toward Mykel, careful to keep his head below the top of the wall. Cadmian's Choice
I have found the Maalem, master of a bakehouse, a short, olive-skinned, wild, and wiry little man, whose yellowed eyes and contracting pupils tell a tale of haschisch and kief that his twitching fingers confirm. Morocco
It was covered in stiff, wiry gray hair, with a shag of sorts hanging off its hunched shoulders and thick neck like a mane.
He's wiry, he wears a goatee and a flattop, he's got a ready smile and a quick wink and, yeah, I suppose he has opinions.
I turned around to face him, doing everything I could not to gawk at his lean, wiry figure.
Willis was in his early twenties: a short wiry man, thin like a wraith with black hair and a large wart on the side of his nose.
We clear the alchemically wiry growth each morning before bringing the children into the field. The Fields
A moan from the sickly lad in the corner of the hut, roused David from the amazed stare with which he was contemplating the little eager, wiry, energetic old man. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
With printing's meticulous replating to create subtle indentions on paper that create depth and form, Dunham's wiry scratches slowly filled out and became solid and robust. Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
The university mountaineering club introduced him to rock climbing at which he quickly became expert, having a slight, wiry build and a fearless approach to steep rock. Times, Sunday Times
The plant develops as a series of shoots, bulbs and stem tubers connected by brown wiry rhizomes which are strengthened by lignification of the inner cortex. Chapter 14
He was small, but wiry, and had evidently come prepared for business, as he had some overclothes under his arm and a pair of buckskin gloves. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
The air at Pinnawala rings with bellows and trumpeting, and the cries of ‘mahouts,’ wiry men in sarongs and flip flops who care for and instruct the elephants.
The dog Eli showed her was an ugly thing with wiry brindled hair and a squint. The Bread of Ruth’s Unhappiness « A Fly in Amber
The solitary flowers are borne on long, wiry pedicels.
Joe was slim and wiry, with blue eyes and rather pinched features.
He was not a big as myself, but he was strong and wiry, and never seemed to have any trouble in windlassing a heavy bucket of rock or in pulling me out of the shaft.
The wiry guard cast a suspicious look throughout the room.
A wiry Cuban man appears by my side. Times, Sunday Times
Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
A thin wiry man was sitting at the counter, downing a bottle of beer.
Then there were flies which were disposed to be troublesome and had to be kept at a distance, Mark making a loose chowry, like a horse-tail, of long wiry grass, and this proving so effective that the major annexed it, and advised Mark to make another. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre. A River So Long
Or maybe you can think of some frenetic, high-strung, wiry, squirrelly people.
She wondered absently how a man who was not very tall in stature could carry something so heavy, then remembered his corded muscles and wiry strength.
He's a wiry, medium-size man, with a spiky two-week growth of beard and the hollow-eyed stare of a soldier on a long forced march.
The crewman was a wiry middle-aged man named Kevain. Voice of the Gods
The covered sword clanked against the curlicued steel armrail, and the wiry little driver looked at me oddly. The Gates of Noon
The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel.
He twists his tall, wiry frame and points downstream to where the roiling current is slamming into a stone wall.
A wiry man, he has an oversize noggin that rides on his lean 145-pound body, so that he vaguely resembles a five-foot-ten-inch sunflower.
This plant is one of the showiest dwarf evergreens, forming dense bushes of wiry stems.
English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry red - and - black - and - tan or grizzled coat and dropped ears.
So happened it with Master Mordacks, who of all born men was foremost, with his wiry fingers spread, to pass them through the scattery forelock of that mettlesome horse, old Time. Mary Anerley
The man was a little shorter than him with wiry black hair that was graying at his temples.
The bridge is busy on market days with old ladies going shopping, wiry farmers carrying shoulder poles hung with live ducks, and young women in spangly shoes carrying umbrellas to keep themselves out of the sun.
They are mostly epiphytes and lithophytes with fleshy or wiry stems that may grow erect or pendant.
Victor, a tall wiry man with beady eyes and a villainous curly black goatee, announced calmly, unsmiling.
In the past Harvey's appearance has generated worries about her health after she appeared stick-thin in the mid-nineties and accentuated her wiry frame with tight catsuits.
He was an old hand who had been at sea so long that he seemed to smell of salt water and tar; while his face was like a piece of pickled beef covered with a quantity of hair that resembled spunyarn more than anything else, being as stiff and wiry as an untwisted rope. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
He stands up, revealing a pair of skimpy black briefs and the wiry body of somebody in their twenties: no fat, no sag, no wrinkles.
Our main sign is most often a wiry and choppy pulse, and congested purplish veins in the inner eye lids.
The wiry woman released a heaving sigh and motioned towards the small stool.
Father Bourassa fanned himself with the black broadbrim hat he wore, and looked benignly but quizzically on the wiry, sharp-faced Irishman. Northern Lights, Complete
It is naturally shrubby and over the winter the wiry framework will defoliate, but I will wait until March to shape it up with the shears. Stunning salvias
This causes hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth and a wiry pulse.
She was pale, late thirties or so, with dark wiry hair spiked straight up in a tall, scary crew cut, and tawny skin.
I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest.
At sixty-seven, he is slight and wiry, with white hair and sharp blue eyes and a manner that is both brusque and warm.
No longer the bendy punk-rappers of yesteryear, slightly wizened where they were once wiry, not even these boys can hide from adulthood any more.
She was a wiry haired woman, thin as a matchstick in her long tweed skirt and shapeless blouse. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my wood pile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly _day day day_, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery _phe-be_ from the wood-side. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
She looked pretty similar to Amanda, except she had long wiry looking auburn-red hair tied into 2 bunches.
His hair is wiry and wired, seeming to explode from his head as though a powerful voltage has been applied to his ears. Times, Sunday Times
Then the full meaning of the phrase dawned upon him -- it was he and the wiry little sister thus demeaned with a porcine appellation, and whose ears were threatened. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
But in doing this, we have so lowered the general constitutional vigour of the plants or animals that our vines fall an easy prey to oidium and phylloxera, our potatoes to the potato disease and the Colorado beetle; our sheep are stupid, our rabbits idiotic, our domestic breeds generally threatened with dangers to life and limb unknown to their wiry ancestors in the wild state. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
And everywhere that tense and wiry quality of sound, that lack of sympathy with the natural voluptuousness of the cello.
It can jump up to your finger with each beat of the heart, making it feel taut or wiry, indicating pain, or it can feel as if it’s barely reaching your fingers; this is known as thready, and may show a body weakness. The Last Chance Dog
The crinal hair is hard and wiry, growing, like that of a half-caste West Indian, in stiff ringlets which sprout in tufts from the scalp, and, attaining a moderate length, which they rarely surpass, bang down. First Footsteps in East Africa
The Border has a naturally hard, wiry outer coat and a dense, short undercoat.
The Somalis are tall and wiry in stature, with aquiline features, elongated heads, and light brown to black skin.
A little girl with wiry braids kicks a bottle cap at his shoes.
He was taller than most Welshmen, his the lean wiry strength of stamina rather than muscle and sinew. HERE BE DRAGONS
She shook her head so hard that a wiry black curl fell into her face, and she hurriedly pushed it behind her ear.
Offering her an encouraging smile, he hurried over to a large man with white hair, and a wiry grey moustache.
One is a wiry, intense Chicagoan, the other a languid, slow-talking Southerner.
Starry white flowers sparkle on dark wiry stems as they thread themselves through an understorey of shrubs. Times, Sunday Times
Wiry white and grey hairs poked out of his thick, flabby ears and his blue eyes were shoved deep into this rough-skinned face.
She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence.
In life, Maxwell was lean, wiry, with an aquiline handsomeness that became impressively hawklike in old age.
Instead, they're like some dangerous cult, full of bow-legged, wiry weirdos in garish outfits, fuelled on sour dough toast and skinny latte.
He was around thirty, tanned and lean, a good-looking six-footer with a slim, wiry build like a movie star. SNOWJOB
I remembered him as being tall, slight, grey, rather wiry, perhaps in his early sixties and a bit dyspeptic. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The rest of the party consists of two Arabs of the pure desert stock; thin, wiry men, deeply bronzed, and with hollow cheeks, and eyes of almost evil brightness; on their heads red tarbooshes; over their abas, and wrapping the left shoulder and the body so as to leave the right arm free, brown woollen haicks, or blankets. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady. An Odyssey of the North
She hated him down to every last wiry bristle, but he had to live. EVERVILLE
Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl was draped over her shoulders.
He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.
His father shakes my hand with an unusually strong grip for a short, wiry man in his seventies.
Her body, carved and faceted with all of the concentrated vigor of an Expressionist woodcut and burnished a brick red, gives way to a thick plait of wiry gray hair.
He remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement. Empty Homes, Empty Windows
He was wiry, pleasant looking man with an air of learning about him.
She settled into her bedroll and ran a slender hand through the mass of wiry black hair atop her head, pulling it back into a ponytail.
Use some conditioner to calm down the wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
He had really wiry, fuzzy hair and would prune it like he did with his beard. The Sun
The pure white flower -- more than an inch across -- is somewhat distant from the handsome three-leaved involucrum, and is supported by a wiry flower stalk, 3in. to 5in. long; it is about the same length from the root, otherwise the plant is stemless. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
He was a lean, wiry, dark-skinned man in a white jubbah, shorter than Tuthmes and with his Negroid ancestry more prominent in his features. Conan of Cimmeria
His wiry form was scrubbed and dressed in garb that young men normally wear only to funerals and for appearances before the headmaster. Times, Sunday Times
A wiry, slight man though a real "shellback," one who had been steeped in and saturated with every sea, was "giving the sea best," nerve-shaken, so he said -- and yet sailing a cutter with but 3 or 4 inches of free board "single-handed. Confessions of a Beachcomber
In the distance were clouds rising from chimneys, as wiry as the lines of smoke blowing from Vesa's roll-ups.
She looked pretty similar to Amanda, except she had long wiry looking auburn-red hair tied into 2 bunches.
After I got out of the hospital, Alice talked me into going to a Rolfer—Grant—this wiry ex-wrestler who hums along with classical music during our sessions. BAD GIRL CREEK
Wily, wiry and strong, Duffield's strength in a finish has been a welcome sight for punters over four decades.
It was what might be termed a sinewy, knotty strength, of the kind we ascribe to lean and wiry men, but which, in him, because of his heavy build, partook more of the enlarged gorilla order. Chapter 2
A wiry old man appeared, a bit shorter than average height, sporting a button-collar and sleeves over small pot-belly and mutton-chop whiskers from the decades past.
Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
When it occurs in a woman, it not only substitutes in her case a wiry and perhaps thin bearded masculineness for distinctive feminine traits and power, making her an epicene, but it entails a variety of prolonged weaknesses, that dwarf her rightful power in almost every direction. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
That frail, scrawny, wiry physique of his, observed in a football strip from 50 yards away in a press-box, only told half the story.
The teacher was a short tubby lady with wiry brown hair that was constantly in her face.
His shirt had short sleeves, exposing pale, wiry arms, but he showed no sign of being cold.
The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations.
He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.
Kurt Forster was an impressive man, tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair.
In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers.
He has a runner's wiry frame.
He was wiry fair-haired, burned by the sun, and about my age.
Even the sparse wiry mountain grass was gone from the rocky hillsides now, and the only vegetation was a thick, dry, mosslike growth, or tough lichens. Tran Siberian
She has an enormous cataract of caramel hair that reaches down to the back of her legs, which are wiry and thin. Times, Sunday Times
Howard Marshall II, Anna Nicole's octogenarian billionaire husband, sung by Alan Oke with an appropriate wiry toughness; the four buxom lap dancers who, when Anna Nicole starts working in a sex club, instruct her in the rudiments of their art; or Doctor Yes, the plastic surgeon who created Smith's rack windily sung by Andrew Rees. Royal Opera's 'Anna Nicole' misses the inner beauty
The priest - a wiry man with bulging, tattoo-covered biceps - dabbed cocoa butter onto Alonso's thumbnails, the crown of his head, his inner arm.
She's his double with thon thick wiry black hair.
Suds from the soapy sponge he used to clean the floor clung to his sleeves and nestled in his wiry black hair.
Renny's claws were embedded in the wiry thews of the jaguar's forearms, streams of blackish blood spilling down his hands as he fought to shred the tendons crushing the life from him.
Her wiry gray hair curled from beneath the edges of a blue kerchief and a colorful fringed shawl draped over her shoulders.
During the intermission I noticed Roberto, at the rail of one of the boxes, deep in conversation with a wiry, chignoned gamine.
Them arguing over whether they should pull out their friend's wiry chin hair. The Sun
Mulcahy guessed he was in his early thirties, wiry, with an intelligent demeanour that was probably attributable to the thin rimless glasses perched halfway up his hooked nose. The Priest
He had dark brown wiry hair, stubble over his lower face and a deep scar under his left eye.
Solid colonies of wiry upright stems, filigree foliage and masses of small, pale yellow daisies make a cheerful chunky clump. Times, Sunday Times
Alongside a bony-headed, loose-lipped camel, a goat stands to attention, the shine of its wiry bushiness painted with patient genius, lock by tawny lock.
The stems are thin and wiry, making the whole thing a joy to clip. Times, Sunday Times
Pure white reflexed petals frame a vibrant orange/ red cup and are carried on 30-35cm wiry stems. Times, Sunday Times
SAMSON | Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. News | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com
The wiry businessman even inspired a steak house chain, Wang Steak, which claims to serve up beef in the style in which Wang ate at work.
Clearly the squeezers were designed for wiry Dales folk, some are decidedly fat-ist.
That we seldom saw a snake was probably due to the noise we made cooeeing and ululating to each other through a labyrinth of tunnels under the wiry branches.
The latter, keen and sharp and wiry, for all his white hair and sixty-odd years, was as young in appearance as a man of thirty. CHAPTER 11
He scorned a cap, as they all did, but every morning he carefully combed his wiry, tow-coloured hair and subdued it with pomade.
These shared the general characteristics of being long in the leg and body, covered in wiry hair, and slow to fatten; similar pigs roamed in France and Germany, still kept at pannage with a swineherd.
She hated him down to every last wiry bristle, but he had to live. EVERVILLE
Beneath the table his feet are doing their own private dance, while the wiry hair that crowns his angular, mercurial features is a buzz of static feedback.

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