cow-lick

"But even better," cries a small snirp with a cow-lick and glasses, "was your hit at the expense of the wiseacre who questioned your right to sell horses taken from Missouri!"

THE NUMBERS 2010

You speak of “pre-emptive wars”, like a rather big one which was waged by a certain fellow with a silly moustache and a cow-lick hairdo.

Think Progress » 150,000: 2006

"But even better," cries a small snirp with a cow-lick and glasses, "was your hit at the expense of the wiseacre who questioned your right to sell horses taken from Missouri!"

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

"But even better," cries a small snirp with a cow-lick and glasses, "was your hit at the expense of the wiseacre who questioned your right to sell horses taken from Missouri!"

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

He wore his hair in a pompadour because of the prosaic fact that he had a cow-lick.

The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Then, if he's a gentleman, he's got to work like a dog for the rest of his life, to make enough to atone, so far as he can with money -- which is some distance -- for the irreparable mistake his manly cow-lick caused her to make.

Poor Little Eddie 1916

She had a fine accuracy of aim – she hit him on the nape of the neck, just where his hair came down in a queer little curly "cow-lick" in the middle.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

She had a fine accuracy of aim -- she hit him on the nape of the neck, just where his hair came down in a queer little curly "cow-lick" in the middle.

The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

The Woodpecker pointed out that fortunately the prisoner had a cow-lick that was practically a second crown.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

After he got his hat on, she took it off to see whether his cow-lick was worse than usual.

The Story of a Play A Novel William Dean Howells 1878