grey-headed

[ grey-hed-id ]

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All servants are called "boys" here, even if they are grey-headed; our man is probably about five-and-twenty.

How strangely changed are things when a grey-headed shepherd does not know the names of his hills!

Their leader was a small grey-headed man with trembling hands and very indistinct enunciation.

He was a man much older, more meagre of body, grey-headed, with an odd sidelong expression in his eyes.

Of such are the redstart, the grey-headed flycatcher, the snipe and the majority of the game birds.

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