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a little lock by each ear
She was literally withered away, her face was scarcely larger than an infant's and completely checkered with fine wrinkles, her teeth were entirely gone and her mouth so sunken that her nose and chin almost met, her hair not silvery, but snowy white, except a little lock by each ear which still retained the sandy hue of childhood, her form which was always slender, was bent, and her limbs could not longer support her.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson

at long leg both ends exposed
Probably at long leg both ends, exposed to the public gaze as the worst fieldsman in London.
— from Not that it Matters by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne


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