"Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." ❋ Jhetley (2006)
It was where Joyce ate with his family then, he and his wife against the wall, Joyce peering at the menu through his thick glasses holding the menu up in one hand; Nora by him, a hearty but delicate eater; Giorgio thin, foppish, sleek-headed from the back; Lucia with heavy curly hair, a girl not quite yet grown; all of them talking Italian. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1992)
Fat, sleek-headed ones are not reliable, no matter how well they sleep at night. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1964)
Around that prehensile appendage a dozen sharp-nosed, sleek-headed young had entwined their own tails, and were sitting on the mother's back. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
He was so like hundreds of young men in the town, dark and sleek-headed and sturdily under-sized, with an air of sagacity and consciously shrewd eyes under a projecting brow, that it seemed like uttering one's complaint before a jury or some other representative body. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
On the theory, given to the world by William Shakespeare, that it is the lean and hungry-looking men who are dangerous, and that the "fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o 'nights," are harmless, R. Jones should have been above suspicion. ❋ Unknown (1928)
There were three Annies: one in ringlets, plaid silk, and tasselled boots, at eight; one magnificent in drawing-room plumes; and a recent one, a cloudy study of the severely superb mother, with a sleek-headed, wide-collared boy on each side of her. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
Suddenly, without warning, there was a newcomer in the circle, a sleek-headed brown-haired little man known as Justin Little. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
Mrs. Gregory was taking a trio of small, sleek-headed boys to ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
Then the Trained Seals were with us, lovely things like gentle, tidy, sleek-headed little girls. ❋ Ruth Comfort Mitchell (1918)
'He is a small, sleek-headed bachelor of five and forty, whose scandalous life has long furnished his more moral neighbors with an afterdinner joke.' ❋ Frank Boreham (1915)
We can understand how such a man as the Rev.Mr. May, or the sleek-headed Dr. Channing, may be deluded by her into becoming one of her disciples. ❋ Unknown (1898)
You may go a hundred times, and the sleek-headed girl in pop will give no sign, and the bell will never ring. ❋ Unknown (1899)
A sleek-headed piccolo rushed forward to remove the board, and the erstwhile combatants resumed the courteous dignity that they discarded in their chess-playing moments. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
For years longer than a dog's lifetime Luitpold Wolkenstein had disposed of the pretensions and strivings of the Balkan States over the cup of cream-topped coffee that sleek-headed piccolos had brought him. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
