On a world where for thousands of years men had killed each other untidily in wars, and where they now prepared to destroy themselves wholly in a final one, there was no possibility of such a civilization existing in secret.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
He was a tall, untidily-dressed man, with his hair wild and straggling, as if he had just got out of bed.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
This woman had grey hair that escaped its pins and fell untidily about her shoulders.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole