How To Use Forelock In A Sentence
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This wasn't a principle, it was personal, and it was forelock-tugging deference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its mane and forelock were thick and black as well, and its deep brown eyes stared happily at Tam as she got the bridle from a hook in the stall.
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That one lasted for 4 months, and in the end all I had was a cotton candy pink forelock.
A Candid Line of Questioning
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So beautiful and majestic, with his forelock draped in his face, he really fit the part.
Early Buzz: Your Highness | /Film
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Tugging his forelock to politicians shouldn't even be on the agenda.
The Sun
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Rolling her eyes, she gathered the horse's forelock and gently lifted the bit from his mouth.
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Nicholas's ID photo from the Saigon embassy shows a young man with a Superman forelock, fixing the camera with a challenging stare.
The Old Soldier Who Didn't Fade Away
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Time was — time is — and, if I catch it not by the forelock as it passes, time will be no more — Nettlewood will be forfeited — and if I have in addition a lawsuit for my title, and for Oakendale, I run a risk of being altogether capotted.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Now, with a shy nod, and a touch to his forelock, he did so.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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One of the Shetlands called Pinkerton is a palomino with large bulging black eyes, a long forelock, mane and tail and a sandy coloured mark down his spine.
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But otherwise very little, jokes or otherwise, that we hadn't heard before, and a preponderance of what blogger Julian Dobson has called "pointless forelock-tugging to the Taxpayers 'Alliance".
Society Daily 07.07.10
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Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
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But simply accept bullying, tug our forelocks and suck it up?
Archive 2009-07-01
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It is a day for a smile and a toast, not a day for standing to attention and tugging of forelocks.
Royal wedding: A day like no other
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Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
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She laughed richly, and raised her hand and lightly brushed his messy forelock of hair.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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By comparison, the Miami series suffers from hambone David Caruso's showboating - the shameless way he slips into action hero poses, doffing his sunglasses to brush aside a pesky forelock when jumping from a car.
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He wiped over his forelock and his turban and his socks.
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Tse's boyish look, bolstered by his trademark floppy forelocks, is a crucial signpost from the very beginning.
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At their hotel there was a waiter with a forelock that looked like the crest of a breaking wave, and this waiter with his coiffure was a source of constant amusement to her, so much so, that although she was not usually very witty, she simply outdid herself in images and comparisons.
Chapter XVI
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Calmly standing in the stall was a chocolate brown blood mare, a splash of white coloring her forelocks and spreading down to the knee on her front left leg.
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It started to snow and through the snow I saw a greenish forelock to the armless girl's hair.
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Time was -- time is -- and, if I catch it not by the forelock as it passes, time will be no more -- Nettlewood will be forfeited -- and if I have in addition a lawsuit for my title, and for Oakendale, I run a risk of being altogether capotted.
St. Ronan's Well
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Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
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Feeling slightly annoyed, I turned and looked, nudging my forelock out of my eyes so I could see better, not having to look through strands of fine, black hair.
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Their mane, tails, and forelocks are the same color as their coats and can be a shade or two darker.
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`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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His shaggy forelock of dark hair was sticking up oddly over his shocked eyes.
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Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
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Each had shaved the sides of his head, leaving long roaches in the center, and the forelocks dangling down their foreheads were decorated with shining white shell beads.
Fire The Sky
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Natai tied up his hair with a ribbon and pushed the forelock form his eyes.
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He grasps a forelock between his thumb, his index finger, and the one beside it and he twirls it around and around, until it stands up in a little tuft.
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The animals were all tethered by their forelocks and would not have wandered away even if the women left behind were not there.
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So happened it with Master Mordacks, who of all born men was foremost, with his wiry fingers spread, to pass them through the scattery forelock of that mettlesome horse, old Time.
Mary Anerley
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Becoming faster now, she tossed the face brush back into the box and grabbed the comb, taking a few runs through his mane and forelock, just getting the remnants of hay out of it.
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The day had been bright until then, but we'd noticed a bank of fog building up steadily on the outside of the island chain, flopping its forelock languidly over the mountain ridges, waiting for a breeze to give it a leg up.
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Yeah, and as we peasants labor in the fields we can tug our forelocks as our betters flit by in their high-speed trains as they travel in style and comfort between ACORN meetings.
Most intriguing and yet curiously disappointing headline of the day
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This explains why the companies that once dominated industrial-strength computing—the IBMs, the Oracles, the H-Ps—now nervously tug their forelocks around Apple and Google.
What Price the Cloud?
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She absently stroked the horse's silky forelock but an insistent whinny reminded her of Hope.
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Sam Beckett seemed to be a handsome man in his early forties, with a single white forelock in an otherwise brown head of hair.
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Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
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Most species have a mane on the neck and a lock of hair on the forepart of the head known as a forelock.
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A lot of kneeling, kowtowing and forelock-tugging ensued -- and a public scolding of one of the Star's best journos and columnists by the "public editor.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.
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The saddle, armor, and bit of his horse were green as well, and each of the green strands of the horse's mane, forelock, and tail was braided with a gold thread and a string of golden bells.
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Biting ankles and forelocks is also a recognized fighting technique, although contestants are muzzled to limit injuries.
What's a Bigger Draw Than a Camel Fight? A Camel Beauty Contest, of Course
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Red hair was greased back, allowing only two forelocks to fall.
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In one incident, he hacked away at the forelocks of horses - leaving them without protection against eye infections.
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Instead of asking how it is that we all have to kiss the forelock of the Windsor family...
Primogeniture: The second sex | Editorial
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The mare touched down in a clearing a little ways away from the end of the forest, she trotted a few strides and then stopped and snorted, disrupting her long forelock.
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This kind of forelock-tugging to the monarchy disappeared from the real world 40 years ago or more.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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His hair was blond streaked, stylishly short at the back but with swinging forelocks.
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These people are not really 'conservatives' as we have known such people in earlier times, who were fundamentally decent people, but a newer breed of elitists who might more properly be called corpo-fascists based on their desired policies of instituting corporate governments primarily of, by and for the corporate-banker-investors, supportive of Big Business and treating the people more like serfs and slaves tugging the forelock in general and doing as Their Betters Require than citizens who rightfully own their democratic country.
Lefty media bias? Hardly
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We are all serfs now, so we may as well tug our forelocks and bend the knee.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 21, 2010
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She laughed richly, and raised her hand and lightly brushed his messy forelock of hair.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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An hour passed as I brushed him, trimmed his forelock, and picked his feet.
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The tails and some forelocks of the horses, who were from different sires, were cut at the weekend, but the animals, belonging to various vendors, were not interfered with or injured in any other way.
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Two surgical hair restoration sessions were used to integrate transplanted hair into the resident terminal hair of the forelock, producing a central density that should persist for many years.
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I have also dyed my hair deep blue with a pink forelock and magenta highlights.
A Candid Line of Questioning
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Every fleeting image was of a taller young man, perhaps in his early forties, a man with longish brown hair distinguished by a single white forelock falling into warm hazel eyes.
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Most species have a mane on the neck and a lock of hair on the forepart of the head known as a forelock.
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Bring it diagonally across the forelock, where it will become the first ‘center’ strand.
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Most species have a mane on the neck and a lock of hair on the forepart of the head known as a forelock.
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He has an all-white body with colored ears and some color in his forelock and mane, but I believe that will disappear and he will become all white.
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We all agreed the war in Vietnam was wrong and the forelock tugging tendency of the British needed to end.
Spirit of the underground: the 60s rebel
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Only 10 strands of hair from the tail, forelock, but preferably the mane, are needed, pulled in exactly the same way as required for thinning manes.
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He touched his forelock as though in salute and watched as she tripped daintily out of the stables, lifting her skirts an inch or two so as not to muddy them.
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I work my way up his legs and then onto his mane and forelock and lastly his back.
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Without fiscal autonomy Scots will always end up going to London furiously tugging their forelocks as they push forward the national begging bowl.
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Horse owners know the whole story when it comes to our horse's manes, tails and forelocks.
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Seize time by the forelock.
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Resplendent in turquoise from forelock to hoof, Trigger and Buttermilk were subsequently elevated to the unlikely role of room-divider ornaments.
Home Alone
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Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
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He flicked his ears forward attentively and tossed his head, sending his forelock and mane flying.
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I would be very happy to swear allegiance to democracy, human rights and to my constituents, but I am not very happy about the idea of tugging my forelock to an unelected monarch.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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They will take two or three years to grow back properly - and in the summer the horses need their forelocks to brush away bugs and flies and stop infections.
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And, of course, our usual mix of irreverant caption competitions, letters in extremely poor taste, shameless plugs for radical causes, and a stubborn refusal to tug our forelocks to any master, be they in Cardiff Bay or Westminster.
Ein Gwlad
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They have an erect mane and lack the forelock of a horse.
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There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.
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Now, with a shy nod, and a touch to his forelock, he did so.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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I work my way up his legs and then onto his mane and forelock and lastly his back.
