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We saw his tow-colored hair and patched shirt zigzag among the sunken graves of paupers, then disappear in the thicket of statuary higher up.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Running his hands through his tow-colored hair, as yet uncombed, he surveyed the lock, the Quai de Jemmapes to his left, and the Quai de Valmy to his right.

Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

"Well, that is sure, Jem," stopping to look into the lean, emphatic little face, and to pass her hand over the tow-colored hair.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

They are all sewed with waxed linen twine: the higher sizes have pink, because it looks better; the others have tow-colored.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

There were mirrors, too, and in the window little forms on which to set up the trimmed hats and one big, pink-cheeked, dolly-looking wax bust, with a great mass of tow-colored hair piled high in the very latest mode, on which was to be set the very finest hat to be evolved in that particular East Side shop.

The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Amy Bell Marlowe

His hair, tow-colored from the hot Virginia sun, was darkening a little as he grew older.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

He wore on his head a furry-looking stovepipe hat pulled down over his thick, tow-colored hair.

Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child 1915

The boy was slim and slender and his hair was tow-colored and his head too big for his body.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Lady Philippa, watching Eleanor's brown head and the boy's tousled tow-colored mop, as they consulted over a boat Roger was making, smiled and sighed.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

You should have seen Ferdie, though, with a tow-colored wig clapped down over his ears and his spindle shanks revealed to a cold and cruel world in a pair of faded pink ballet trousers.

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907