And her silk-black hair hung like sleeping bats
-- Gregory Corso.
"An Old Man Said He Once Saw Emily Dickinson"
His hair was very short, but it didn't look like it had been cut that
way. It looked like that was as long as it would grow.
-- Larry McMurtry. All My Friends Are Going To Be
Strangers (1972) p.177
Her hair has been combed or styled in a way that makes it look like a
certain cut of meat.
-- Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) p.463
... it was in one of those groovy modern art galleries, you know the
kind of place, all grey paint and grey steel chairs with big holes
where you're supposed to sit and a grey-jacketed assistant whose
haircut seems to be part of the exhibit...
-- Richard Rayner "A Discourse on the Elephant"
Granta 28 (autumn 1989) p.87
Between the bar and the entranceway there was a flurry of bodies and
arms, maybe four guys including Jack who were physically propelling a
man who looked like he combed his hair with firecrackers.
-- Don DeLillo Libra (1988) p.264
And the locks of his reddish hair, crinkled by nature but glued to his
head by brilliantine, were treated broadly as they are in that Greek
sculpture which the Mantuan painter never ceased to study, and which,
if in its creator's purpose it represents but man, manages at least to
extract from man's simple outlines such a variety of richness,
borrowed, as it were, from the whole of animate nature, that a head of
hair, by the glossy undulation and beak-like points of its curls, or in
the superimposition of the florid triple diadem of its tresses, can
suggest at once a bunch of seaweed, a brood of fledgling doves, a bed
of hyacinths and a coil of snakes.
-- Marcel Proust. Swann's Way (1913) p.461
(tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin
revised by D. J. Enright -- 1992)
The fine cotton of her blouse was sticking like grime to her skin. Her
hair felt as if she'd bought it at a fairground, on a stick.
-- Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless. 1992. p21