SHOCK-HEADED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Shock-headed

... wished him to meet, Peter was permitted to meet those whom he himself wished to meet. He was introduced to two deceptively mild-mannered young Englishmen, first cousins named Checkleigh, students in one of the great ateliers, who were by way of being painters; and to a shock-headed young man from California, a sculptor, named Stocks. The Englishmen were closely related to a large-toothed, very important Lady Somethingorother, high up in the diplomatic sphere, and the Californian possessed a truly formidable aunt. ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... purest philanthropy actuated these counsels, I thanked my shock-headed friend, and asked carelessly to whom the ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton