flying-haired

Updated: May 29, 2025

But once she had kissed another man thus on the mouth, with her body moving, and therein lay a new world a world of flying-haired Mænads and growling satyrs that lived behind the tick-tock of windows. Standing in the snowstorm an insane notion took possession of Hazlitt. It had to do with Evil. Order was an accident. Men and women were evil. The tick-tock was a pretense. The notion passed.

Ben Hecht - Erik Dorn

Very early on the following morning, but not before, she was missed from the Rectory and sought far and wide. One of the first places visited by those who searched was the Abbey, whither they met Morris returning through the gale, wild-eyed, flying-haired, and altogether strange to see. They asked him if he knew what had become of Miss Fregelius.

Henry Rider Haggard - Stella Fregelius