A fur-coated man with a dark close-cropped beard was leaning over the rail beside him.
All he saw was the back of a fair head, close-cropped.
His face was brown, as though from hot suns, his close-cropped hair was silver-grey, and he had the bold, clear-cut features of a man quick to make up his mind and accustomed to command.
His once close-cropped blond hair was beginning to grow shaggy around the edges, and with the hat pulled low over his forehead, he might have been another person entirely.
It opened its social gates to him and shut him in on a close-cropped, formal lawn with the select herd of ruminants.
Manning sat back, a large man with close-cropped dark hair and heavy features.
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I am bound to say that as we looked at it in 1951 it appeared to be ratherclose-croppedstubble.
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The fineness of the head is emphasised by theclose-croppedhair of an athlete.
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She is described as being thin and wiry, with blue eyes andclose-croppedblonde hair.
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He had a slight overbite andclose-croppedgray hair.
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For a woman however, short varies fromclose-croppedto just above the shoulders.
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Tarrou describes him as about thirty-five-years-old, of moderate height, dark-skinned, withclose-croppedblack hair.
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She is beautiful and slender, with dark skin and aclose-croppedhaircut.
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He usually wears his hair eitherclose-croppedor completely shaved.
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Working-class men have often shaved their heads or worn their hairclose-cropped, and working-class women have typically pulled their hair up and off their faces in simple styles.
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