After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold.
By this time Mary had dried her tears, and when they reached the station at Warren, she removed her veil, disclosing to view a face, which instead of being "rough and blowsy" was smooth and fair almost as marble.
Edward Henry bought an aster from a fine bold, red-cheeked, blowsy, dirty wench with a baby in her arms, and left some change for the baby.
She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself.
These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair!
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In her early film work she specialized inblowsyblondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s.
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Its natural sweetness means that in hot climates it becomesblowsy, with not enough acidity to balance the huge amounts of sugar.
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