21.   Her graying hair clings in a thin braid to her back.

22.   Her curly graying blond hair is still damp from her morning swim at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

23.   Her face is austerely beautiful, planed and bony like an early Picasso, with enormous pale blue eyes and graying hair pulled back tightly from her high cheekbones.

24.   Her graying hair was cut short.

25.   His graying hair is slicked back.

26.   His graying hair is buzz cut.

27.   His graying hair tousled and his light blue eyes tired, he graciously answered query after query, but his enthusiasm was flagging.

28.   I looked again at her misshapen face, the graying hair, the cloudy eyes, the twisted back.

29.   Indeed, even as an old man with graying hair, Koehler says he considered going out violently but decided against it.

30.   Japanese abounds with such euphemisms for older people, based on graying hair.