scanty-haired

Updated: May 5, 2025

Stiffy and Mahooley were a pair of "good hard guys," but here the resemblance ended. Stiffy was dry, scanty-haired, mercantile; Mahooley was noisy, red-faced, of a fleshly temperament, and a wag, according to his lights. "I'd give a dollar for a new newspaper," growled Mahooley. "That's you, always grousin' for nothin' to do!" said his partner. "Why don't you keep busy like me?"

Hulbert Footner - The Huntress

Probyn, a tall, wiry, scanty-haired man, with quiet, deep-set eyes, was standing with one foot on the tierce of tobacco and his hands in his pockets. His wife glared defiantly at some two or three score of reddish-brown women who crowded eagerly around her to stare into her face; holding to the sleeve of her dress was the child, paralysed into the silence of fright.

Louis Becke - By Reef and Palm