curly-heads

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curly-heads - shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage

Clematis ochreleuca

clematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers

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Towards ten o'clock, when she usually said good-night to her son, and often before going to a ball put him to bed herself, she felt depressed at being so far from him; and whatever she was talking about, she kept coming back in thought to her curly-headed Seryozha.

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Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

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He loved his books and he loved the little curly-headed children that gathered about him with pattering feet and chattering tongues, and never wished to be absent from them.