Close-cropped

The close-cropped lawn is beautiful in the eyes of a people whose inherited bent it is to readily find pleasure in contemplating a well-preserved pasture or grazing land.

A small boy with close-cropped brown head and dark eager eyes was drumming with his fingers on the windowpane.

A soldier with close-cropped hair walked past.

Minutes later, several more close-cropped fellows passed by in an evident hurry.

Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]