Use beard in a sentence
Sentences starting with beard
- Beard was introduced, with some ceremony, to Cynthia and Jethro. [9]
- Beard tenderly lifted the hand from his knee and stared at Jethro with his mouth open, like a man aroused from a bad dream. [9]
- Beard glanced at the band and began to laugh. [9]
- Beard abandoned his logworks and swung around with a snort of pain. [9]
- Beard doubtless accepted it as one of the man's eccentricities that Jethro did not respond to him, for without more ado he departed arm in arm with Ephraim. [9]
- Beard put it all in that book. [5]
- Beard has intimated a moment ago, and so has Sir Purdon-Clarke also, that the artist, the, illustrator, does not often get the idea of the man whose book he is illustrating. [5]
Sentences ending with beard
- I astonished Mr. Wood; and sometimes he would tilt back his chair, take off his spectacles and pull his beard. [9]
- A month later when he was more recovered physically he would be able to perform the operation, but the old man was dying now, while he stood helplessly stroking his big brown beard. [11]
- For she took to her bed, an' agin' the crowin' o' the cock wan midnight, she gives a little cry an' snatched at me beard. [11]
- On the forehead there is a crest of hair, and on the chin a yellow beard. [1]
- In the pause, the Seigneur added "I forgot to add that the man had a brown beard. [11]
- After looking round the room for a moment, the Prince came slowly over to Nahoum, and, stretching out a hand, stroked his beard. [11]
- The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard. [2]
- He is a tall, strongly built man of about sixty, with iron grey hair and beard. [9]
- I did not speak, but went on running my fingers through my beard. [11]
- Macavoy stopped short, open-mouthed, breathing hard in his great beard. [11]
Short sentences using beard
- Beard, had sent him. [9]
- Beard, uneasily. [9]
- Beard, approvingly. [9]
Sentences containing beard two or more times
- It appears therefore at first sight probable that man has retained his beard from a very early period, whilst woman lost her beard at the same time that her body became almost completely divested of hair. [1]
More example sentences with the word beard in them
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
- Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grant which sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty. [9]
- My old friend, whose beard had been shaken in many a tempest, knew too well that there is cause enough for anxiety. [6]
- His beard was white, his face was friendly, almost benevolent, but his eyes had a light caught from no celestial flame. [11]
- His beard was white, his face long and narrow and shrivelled, his forehead protruding, his eyes of the cold blue of a winter's sky. [9]
- But one day when the meagre village chemist saw him cracking jokes with Beard, the carpenter, and sidled in with a silly air of equality, which was merely insolence, Gaston softly dismissed him, with his ears tingling. [11]
- You see, Wilhelm, when the Glipper looked past me--" "Your beard lost its calmness. [10]
- Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
- At first she was startled, for he was clean-shaven--the fire had burned his beard to the skin. [11]
- The farmer's beard was overgrown, and the eyes looked up at him as from caverns of suffering below the bandage. [9]
- His brown beard was grown like a bramble patch, his eye had a violet light, and his hunting shirt was in tatters. [9]
- When his beard was first beginning to grow, he was given by our gracious Duke to Chevalier von Brand as his esquire, and sent to Spain, to buy Andalusian horses. [10]
- The old man was crouching forward, lapping milk from the great bowl, his beard dripping. [11]
- The Greek prince was an old man, his beard and thick hair were grey, but his movements were youthful and light, though dignified and deliberate. [10]
- Lawless rose, and walked up and down the room once or twice, pulling at his beard and frowning. [11]
- Blood was dripping upon his beard from a cut on his lip, and from there to the ground. [11]
- He wore round, tortoise-shell spectacles, he had a high, dome-like forehead, and an ample light brown beard which he stroked from time to time. [9]
- He drew attention to Barouche's leonine head and beard, to his alert eyes and quizzical face, and said he was as strong in the field of legislation as he was in body and mind. [11]
- In all this time signs of the proselyter an' the giant with the blue-ice eyes an' the gold beard seemed to fade dimmer out of the trail. [13]
- It was little Tiefel, now a first lieutenant with a bristly beard and tanned face, come to town on a few days' furlough. [9]
- He would pull thy old beard, an' thou didst offer him such an insolence. [5]
- Not content with this, he strewed gold-dust in his hair and beard and filled his mouth to that extent that he appeared in the act of choking. [10]
- The well-formed head, thick dark hair, and magnificent beard corresponded with the powerful figure. [10]
- Shaking his head, the valet took these articles of dress from the chest; but before he put them on his master, the latter sat down to have his hair and beard carefully arranged. [10]
- Why, sir, he's the longest bit of man you ever saw, with a pointed beard, and a nose that's as long as a midshipman's tongue-dry, lean, and elastic. [11]
- He had all the imperiousness of a soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer, he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. [4]
- The figure stirred, the hand dropped from the beard and clutched the knee; but the head was not raised, and the body remained crouching and listless. [11]
- According to custom, the hair and beard of the father who had lost his first-born son had been shaven. [10]
- In the Pacific the Fijian's beard is "profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride"; whilst the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough chin. [1]
- Not altogether, for the false beard he had worn the night before lay beside the clothes. [11]
- Eben appeared at the door, a little dishevelled in hair and beard, for he had been sleeping. [9]
- Another member of the committee was that comfortable Mr. Dodd, with the tuft of yellow beard, the hardware dealer whom we have seen at the baseball game. [9]
- The ends of the collar were apart the width of the red clipped beard, and the mustache was cropped straight along the line of the upper lip. [9]
- And so with the beards: some shaved from the chin, like the Turks; some cut short, like the beard of the Marquis Otto; some made round, like a rubbing-brush; some peaked, others grown long. [4]
- The man with the beard, next her, is John Laurens, the philanthropist. [9]
- It is only the beard that reminds you of the one when you look at the other. [10]
- In the ibex the beard is not developed during the summer, and is so small at other times that it may be called rudimentary. [1]
- How was it that while the scissors passed through the beard of a man's face the points did not suddenly slip up and stab the light from helpless eyes? [11]
- I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiff-bearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated. [6]
- The old man's tall figure was not bent, his snowy hair flowed in abundance round his proud head, and a white beard fell in soft waves far down his breast. [10]
- The gentleman from Suffolk, still holding on to his beard, pitched in without preamble. [9]
- From where she stood she could only see his side-face as he came down the steps, and indeed it was not ill-favored; brow, nose, and chin were finely and nobly formed; his beard was thin, and a mustache curled over his lips. [10]
- Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
- In very many species, the beard, whiskers, and crests of hair round the face are of a different colour from the rest of the head, and when different, are always of a lighter tint (45. [1]
- I knew a Spartan dame once, who had a beard almost as rough as mine. [10]
- I had no sooner made this discovery, which drew from me an involuntary groan, when a ship's lanthorn was of a sudden thrust over me, and I perceived behind it a head covered with shaggy hair and beard, and beetling brows. [9]
- As Jim did so, he saw lying on a chair a suit of clothes on top of which were a wig and false beard and moustache. [11]
- The marks of smallpox, a heavy beard, grey hair, and solitary life had altered him beyond Charley's recognition. [11]
- They were to shut the door of the cell, recline the beard and chin on the breast, and contemplate the abdominal centre. [6]
- The square, unbowed shoulders, the heavily lined face, with the patriarchal beard, the gnarled hands, the rough-hewn limbs, the eye of bright, brooding force proclaimed authority. [11]
- It was a short man about forty years old, with sandy hair, no beard, and a pleasant face badly freckled but alive and intelligent, and he wore slop-shop clothing which was neat but showed wear. [5]
- The Judge was shaven, save for a shaggy fringe of gray beard around his chin, and the size of his nose was apparent even in the full face. [9]
- Dan Beard was selected for the drawings, and was given a free hand, as the next letter shows. [5]
- Yes, when rage seizes upon me, when my beard begins to tremble, my small share of sense flies away as fast as your doves when you let them go. [10]
- They had never seen anyone so tall, for they were not great of stature, and his huge beard and wild shock of hair were a wonderful sight. [11]
- One thing, however, seems certain without any serious reflection: the attraction which draws me here, as well as you, will not enter the cloister as a monk, but as a little nun, wears no beard, but braids her hair. [10]
- He wears a scraggly beard now. [9]
- All cheered loudly save one old man with grizzled hair and beard, who leaned against the wall half-way down the room smoking a corncob pipe. [11]
- While Mr. Wetherell sat meditating, upon this inexplicable retort, a retired, scholarly looking gentleman with a white beard, who wore spectacles, came out of the door leading from the barber shop and quietly took a seat beside him. [9]
- He had a round head, snugly-trimmed beard slightly dashed with gray, was short and a trifle stout--King thought dumpy. [4]
- The face was rough and weather-beaten, with the deep tan got in the open life of a land of much sun and little cloud, and he had a beard which, untrimmed and growing wild, made him look ten years older than he was. [11]
- Standing upon the Rise, lost in the prospect, was an old, white-haired man in the cassock of a priest, with grey beard reaching nearly to the waist. [11]
- The body, though reduced by a sudden illness, had an appearance of late youth, a firmness of mature manhood; but the hair was grey, the beard was grizzled, and the face was furrowed and seamed as though the man had lived a long, hard life. [11]
- He had a red beard, an eye that glinted red also, and fat, smooth fingers which kept playing with a string of beads as though it were a rosary. [11]
- I learned to read and write, and all that is usually taught to the priests' sons, but never to accommodate myself to my lot, and I never shall.--Well, when my beard grew I succeeded in escaping and I lived for a time in the world. [10]
- The Bishop was rather tall, of stout build, with iron-gray hair and beard, and eyes of light blue. [13]
- He had a Puritan beard, the hawk-like Vane nose, and a twinkling eye that spoke of a sense of humour and a knowledge of the world. [9]
- Now was the psychological moment for Austen Vane, but who was to beard Hilary? [9]
- Roland, my foreman, probably likes--" "Meister, Meister, your beard is beginning to tremble already! [10]
- Man in all probability owes his beard, and perhaps some other characters, to inheritance from an ancient progenitor who thus gained his ornaments. [1]
- Having been taken prisoner and allowed his beard to grow, he seemed to have thrown off all that had been forced upon him--everything military and alien to himself--and had returned to his former peasant habits. [2]
- He felt the point of his torpedo-cut beard, and smiled up pluckily at her--she was much taller than he. [11]
- Standing on the platform after the train pulled out, he summoned up courage to ask a citizen with no mustache and a beard, which he swept away when he spat, where was the office of Lincoln & Herndon. [9]
- He only asked permission to wipe his eyes ere his arms were bound behind his back; for tear after tear was falling on the grey beard of the warder who, outwitted and overpowered, no longer felt capable of discharging the duties of his office. [10]
- She brought a pair of glittering shears, and before she would let the Professor go she had trimmed his hair and beard as they had not been dealt with for many a day. [6]
- Jethro stood poring over the register, when a distinguished-looking elderly gentleman with a heavy gray beard and eyes full of shrewdness and humor paused at the desk to ask a question. [9]
- The Irishman came out of the tangle of battle with a wild kind of light in his eye, his beard all torn, and face battered. [11]
- Beard, seating himself on the edge of his chair. [9]
- The close-shaven beard on the cheeks and chin rested closely upon the white ruff, which seemed to have just come from under the laundresses' smoothing-iron. [10]
- The abbot looked on at the tumult kindly, and bright tear-drops ran down into the old count's beard, for his heart was easily touched. [10]
- First there was old Rufinus, the head of the house, a vigorous, hale old man, who, with his long silky, snow-white hair and beard, looked something like the aged St. John and something like a warrior grown grey in service. [10]
- Like lightning the old man straightened himself, snatched the wig and beard away from his head and face, and with quiet fearlessness said: "Yes, I am Ingolby. [11]
- One of the officers rushed up toward the corner where Conrad stood, and then he saw at his side a tall, old man, with a long, white beard, who was calling out at the policemen: "Ah, yes! [8]
- The wasted face of the storekeeper, enhanced as it was by the beard, gave Mr. Merrill such a shock that he could not speak for a few moments--he who rarely lacked for cheering words on any occasion. [9]
- The impassive profile of the other, the close-cropped beard and the firmly held cigar that seemed to go with it,--Stephen recognized as that of the strange Captain Grant who had stood beside him in the street by the Arsenal He had not changed a whit. [9]
- The long fingers of the man with the white beard clove to the knife like a dead soldier's to the handle of a sword. [11]
- Even the colour of our beards seems to have been inherited from an ape-like progenitor; for when there is any difference in tint between the hair of the head and the beard, the latter is lighter coloured in all monkeys and in man. [1]
- The lower part of his face was concealed by an immense beard. [10]
- From the Terror of France I had got a peasant's dress, and by rubbing my hands and face with the stain of butternut, cutting again my new-grown beard, and wearing a wig, I was well guarded against discovery. [11]
- Without any sign of fear it flew direct to St. Peter, who looked formidable enough with his long beard and great keys, and, pointing with its little forefinger to the hard-hearted woman, cried: 'She once gave me a handful of nuts. [10]
- She pulled at my beard and said, "Daddy," and fell asleep. [11]
- A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap. [2]
- He muffled his mouth in his long silken beard as if to smother what he felt impelled to say, then suddenly rose and left the table. [11]
- He wore a mourning-robe, and while the others looked joyous and hopeful when they parted, his handsome face, framed by its snow-white beard and hair, had the expression of one whose mind and body were burdened by grief. [10]
- After a few minutes he pushed the chair aside with his foot, raised his hand to his mouth, separated his moustache from his thick brown beard, and went to the window. [10]
- At tea, a mild old gentleman, with white hair and beard, sat next us. [6]
- It seems to me that your hair is shorter and your beard thicker, than when you left Egypt. [10]
- Mr. Blyth informs me that he has only seen one instance of the beard, whiskers, etc., in a monkey becoming white with old age, as is so commonly the case with us. [1]
- There's only one man in the world who can beard Silas, and he's the finest states-right Southern gentleman you ever saw. [9]
- Utterly taken aback, Macavoy could only stare, puffing in his beard, and drawing in his legs, which had been spread out at angles. [11]
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