"Fair-haired" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that he would live happily, but always be poor—a destiny that he received with a droll air of resignation and philosophy; while another was warned to beware of a blonde enemy, causing him to recoil with a look of mock terror from the fair-haired Philippe Hubert who sat ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland
... were violently opposed to him. The Staten of Holland, by whom the action of the States-General was mainly controlled, were influenced in their action by Buys and Barneveld. Young Maurice of Nassau, nineteen years of age, was stadholder of Holland and Zeeland. A florid complexioned, fair-haired young man, of sanguine-bilious temperament; reserved, quiet, reflective, singularly self-possessed; meriting at that time, more than his father had ever done, the appellation of the taciturn; discreet, sober, studious. "Count Maurice saith but little, but I cannot tell what he thinketh," ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Wayne, the Yale pitcher?" he asked eagerly. He was a fair-haired, clean-cut young fellow, and ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... broth of wild hen in the little pail of poor Marc Dupre, across the fire, and the little woman was busy watching a bit of bread baking on a smoothed plank. Her companion, a tall, fair-haired woman with pale eyes, light as the grey-green sheen sometimes seen on the waters before a storm, was reclining in tired idleness beside her. This woman had not spoken to Maren, but her cold eyes followed her now with ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe
... brother the fair-haired youth, your cousin the dark Paraguayan, and the gaucho who has guided them hither. All three are close to the tolderia, on the other side of the hill—as I've said, expecting you. Nacena has spoken with them, and promised she will conduct ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
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