Beard Sentence Examples

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  • These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows.

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  • He had a beard.

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  • On the importance attached to the beard, see Ency.

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  • In his eyes the beard was a symbol of the old regime, and as such it must be removed.

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  • The beard is frequently dyed with henna and indigo for much the same reasons as in Europe by elderly men; this is entirely optional.

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  • They have very little beard.

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  • Old men shave the head and sometimes grow a beard.

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  • Matthian system, desired, as they expressed it, " a king whose beard they could hold in their fists," and they found a monarch after their own heart in Wladislaus Jagiello, since 1471 king of Bohemia, who as Wladislaus II.

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  • Khammurabi and the sun-god Shamash, on the former's famous code of laws, have the same features and almost the same frizzled beard, and, according to Meyer, the king in claiming supremacy over Sumer and Akkad wears the costume of the lands.

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  • They may be generally described as of a stout, active, well-proportioned form; of a brown but never of an intensely dark complexion, with black, coarse, lank and abundant hair, and a little more beard than is possessed by the Siamese.

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  • I bet his bushy beard will hard to forge!

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  • The eyes and skin are dark, the beard often well developed, the nose broad and flat, the lips coarse, and jaws heavy.

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  • Personally Roger was of tall and powerful body, with long fair hair and full beard.

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  • Guy, has beard, can read, report him at once!

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  • The great head itself has snakes entwined within its beard, wings above its ears, beetling brows and a heavy mustache.

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  • In the winter coat the hair is long and pendent, elongated into a short beard on the sides of the lower jaw behind the chin; and it is also longer than elsewhere on the neck and the chest; at the base of the long hair is a thick growth of short and woolly under-fur.

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  • He had blue or grey eyes, and fair hair and beard, which turned white through the hardships he endured in Japan.

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  • His thin face with its short, thick black beard looked angry.

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  • It covers your head and body completely, turning you into a cartoon leprechaun complete with a beard.

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  • The hair on the lower jaw, throat and chest is long and straight, and hangs down like a beard or dewlap, though there is no loose fold of skin in this situation.

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  • But the pure Laos are still distinguished by the high cheek-bones, small flat nose, oblique eyes, wide mouth, black lank hair, sparse beard, and yellow complexion of the Thai and other branches of the Mongol family.

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  • Sheep and goats are very nearly related, but the former never have a beard on the chin of the males, which are devoid of a strong odour; and their horns are typically of a different type.

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  • It was in 1857 that Bayard Taylor saw him, and carried away the impression of a man "tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard and eyes of southern darkness."

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  • He proposed founding a new sect with the help of Franklin, who after leaving his shop ridiculed him for his long square beard and for keeping the seventh day.

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  • A thin moustache is common, the beard, if present, is plucked out, and the hair of the head is black, coarse and cut short.

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  • A portrait, painted in middle age, now in the church of Melhus, near Trondhjem, represents him in canonicals, with deep red beard and hair, the latter waved and silky, and a head of massive proportions.

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  • The third, however, was made of the sound of a cat's footsteps, a man's beard, the roots of a mountain, a fish's breath and a bird's spittle.

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  • Thickness of skin, masking the muscles, has been thought the cause of a peculiar heaviness in the outlines of body and face; the complexion varies from yellow-brown to chocolate (about 40 to 43 in the anthropological scale); eyes black; straight coarse glossy black hair; beard and moustache scanty.

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  • The beard is sparse, and, with the exception of the moustache, which is sometimes worn, especially in central Tibet, it is plucked out with tweezers.

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  • So does a magnificent drawing of a head of a nonagenarian with a flowing beard who sat to him at Antwerp, together with a picture from the same head in the character of St Jerome; the drawing is now at Vienna, the picture at Lisbon.

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  • The young man ran his fingers through his beard.

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  • His eyes were small and restless, his nose hooked, he had a beard and moustaches of imposing length.

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  • It is in the face, however, that we find specially distinctive traits, namely, in the eyes, the eyelashes, the cheekbones and the beard.

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  • The;sakis, which form the genus Pithecia, are specially characterized by their long and generally bushy tails, distinct whiskers and beard, and the usually elongated hair on the crown of the head, which may either radiate from a point in the centre, or be divided by a median parting.

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  • In this ruminant, which is of a dark-brown colour, the relatively smooth black horns diverge outwards in a manner resembling those of the bharal among the sheep rather than in goat-fashion; and, in fact, this tur, which has only a very short beard, is so bharal-like that it is commonly called by sportsmen the Caucasian bharal.

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  • The hair rising from the forehead falls in thick waves on each side of the face and descends nearly to the shoulder; the beard is short and close, the face square and massive, the eyes deep set under overhanging brows, the mouth well formed with settled calm about the lips.

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  • Their hair is dark brown or black, straight, wavy or curly; the beard is thin, the face broad, the profile not prominent, the eyes large and expressive, the nose somewhat flattened, the lips thick, the teeth excellent in shape and of a pearly whiteness.

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  • The people of Amar are represented on the Egyptian monuments with yellow skin, blue eyes, red eyebrows and beard, whence it has been conjectured that they were akin to the Libyans (Sayce, Expositor, July 1888).

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  • His face was well-proportioned, with brown eyes, aquiline nose, thick and red lips, high-coloured cheeks, and prominent chin sparsely covered with a tawny beard.

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  • The merest suspicion of unorthodox opinions, the possession of foreign newspapers, the wearing of a beard or an anonymous denunciation, sufficed for the arrest and condemnation of a man to years of imprisonment, while the attendibili, or persons under police surveillance liable to imprisonment without trial at any moment, numbered 50,000.

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  • He was born with horns, a goat's beard and feet and a tail, his person being completely covered with hair.

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  • Sometimes he has goat's feet and horns, curly hair and a long beard, half animal, half man; sometimes he is a handsome youth, with long flowing hair, only characterized by horns just beginning to grow, the shepherd's crook and pipe.

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  • One of the flags bore the image of a man, without moustaches or beard, dressed in a costume and helmet recalling those of the Circassians.

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  • In some places the oblique Mongolian eye is noticed, and (together with certain Indo-Chinese customs) there is often a scantiness of beard and general "Malay" look, which increases westwards, and seems to imply relations with the archipelago subsequent to the departure thence of the pure Polynesians.

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  • In appearance Frederick was a man of well-proportioned, medium stature, with flowing yellow hair and a reddish beard.

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  • In person he was tall and had a long beard; his voice was sonorous, and his eyes flashed fire.

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  • His hair is abundant, black, lank and coarse, but the beard is scanty, and usually plucked out, which gives him an effeminate appearance.

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  • As a race they exhibit manifest evidences of their Ural-Altaic or Mongolic descent in their short stature, absence of beard, oblique eyes, broad face, low forehead and small mouth.

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  • Knox was a rather small man, with a well-knit body; he had a powerful face, with dark blue eyes under a ridge of eyebrow, high cheek-bones, and a long black beard which latterly turned grey.

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  • At forty a man generally lets his beard grow its full length, and cherishes it much; part of a Persians religious exercises is the combing of his beard.

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  • The dey is said to have complained that the king of England should have sent a beardless boy to treat with him, and to have been told that if the beard was the necessary qualification for an ambassador it would have been easy to send a "Billy goat."

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  • He looks too old for his years, but quite unbroken; the character of a veteran sage has fully imprinted itself on his countenance; the features are grand, clear and deeply lined, the mouth firmly set and almost stern, the eyes strong and intent beneath their bushy eyebrows, the hair flows untrimmed over his shoulders and commingles with a majestic beard.

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  • His hair, originally dark, became, in his later years, silvery white, and its wavy locks combined with those of his flowing beard to give him that leonine appearance so familiar through his later portraits.

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  • In Lydia his triumphant return from India was celebrated by an annual festival on Mount Tmolus; in Lydia he assumed the long beard and long robe which were of terwards given him in his character of the " Indian Bacchus," the conqueror of the East, who, after the campaigns of Alexander, was reported to have advanced as far as the Ganges.

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  • He is described as "tall, with brown hair and auburn beard."

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  • Although there may be a fringe of hair on the throat, the males have no beard on the chin; and they also lack the strong odour characteristic of goats.

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  • Drakes singeing of Philips beard in Cadiz harbour in 1587 delayed the expedition for a year, and a storm again postponed it in the early summer of 1588.

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  • The violet-coloured face, which has no beard, is fringed by large bushy whiskers and surmounted by a white band above the brows.

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  • The name was derived from the red beard and hair by which many of the family were distinguished.

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  • In a contemporary psalter (preserved in the library of St Mark at Venice) there is a portrait of him, with a grey beard, crowned and robed in imperial costume.

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  • For the education of its ministry it supports Manchester College at Oxford (which deduces its ancestry from the academy of Richard Frankland, begun 1670), the Unitarian Home Missionary College (founded in Manchester in 1854 by John Relly Beard, D.D., and William Gaskell), and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen.

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  • Each flower consists of an outer or lower glume, called the flowering glume, of the same shape as the empty glume and terminating in a long, or it may be in a short, awn or "beard."

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  • As to his personal appearance we only know that he had a long cleft beard, whence his nickname of Tiugeskaeg or Fork-Beard.

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  • The features are strongly marked, but not unpleasant, the eyes deep set, the beard thick and bushy.

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  • The beard was also worn long.

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  • A legend, afterwards transferred to Frederick Barbarossa, told how he sat in a cavern in the Kyffhausser before a stone table through which his beard had grown, waiting for the time for him to awake and restore to the Empire the golden age of peace.

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  • Not surprisingly, therefore, goat's beard has also had its culinary uses.

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  • Along the edge of the wood elder, blackthorn, holly and gorse grow, sometimes draped in old man's beard.

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  • If you use a razor then soften the beard first with soap and warm water and shave lightly to avoid catching the spots.

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  • I think the only solution is to force the barber to grow a beard to save our brains going into meltdown.

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  • It was odd for me back then to see a man not sporting a beard.

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  • A bent but tall blue hat rose amidst the white lava, followed by a brown forehead and grizzled beard.

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  • The tailor replaced his cloak of black, and the man with the flaxen beard proffered him a little glass of some refreshing fluid.

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  • Then she met an oldish man with a wispy beard.

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  • I think he shoould grow a shaggy beard to prove the point.

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  • Dark brown hair, ginger beard; nature venting its anger at the poisoning of the seas.

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  • Nicholas has short dark hair and a goatie beard.

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  • His square face was framed by a thick beard and sapphire eyes glinted meanly beneath bushy brows.

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  • My second, as I saw a long black beard against a steel cuirass, was to halt and await him.

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  • Small piggy eyes, long, long faces elongated by a beard but then a strong lithe body balanced on quite dainty legs.

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  • I seem to recall bacteria, traces of Matthew Kelly's shaven beard, a live baby gecko all being found in the burgers.

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  • On reaching the oilcloth he ducked underneath and came out with an older gnome whose beard and trousers were streaked with oil.

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  • Not a particularly good-looking man, there was nothing showbiz about the beard which was dark and covered all the right places.

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  • We think of things that are so weird Like great-great grandmas with a beard.

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  • There is the red shirt and long black beard of Olivier, which blows as he stands, his broad-brimmed hat in his hand.

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  • He fastened a lapis-lazuli beard to the high plain, and made it wear a lapis-lazuli headdress.

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  • I added dreadlocks and a beard, baggy trousers and boot laces (he was wearing jackboots ).

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  • These are attracted by wildflowers such as musk mallow and goat's beard.

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  • The same hefty frame, shaggy mane of hair and beard, brooding brows and Gallic bearing.

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  • Another charming (and more accessible) Gothic Mausoleum is that of Sophie Beard (Plot 120 - illustrated right ).

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  • My question is not regarding the obligation to grow the beard and trim the mustache.

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  • Above a rectangular plinth is a face showing what appears to be a long beard.

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  • His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.

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  • There's cheeky little Bryan, that naughty scamp Joel, not to mention the daddy - he's got such a nice beard.

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  • Finished it about 8, had a super quick shave (bye bye chinny beard) and shot up the pub.

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  • Holds more moisture to beard area; leaves skin feeling sleek, and looking good.

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  • Lucy was so startled, she ran off sobbing with fright but outside the bars, Beard Man just kept clicking on.

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  • Donkbeard quickly brushed the crumbs away but they were rather stubborn and he had to give his beard a bit of a tug.

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  • A young maternal uncle, who had grown a beard at an early age, volunteered to take on the task.

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  • Arrow worms hunt in the plankton, beard worms live around hydrothermal vents 9000 meters below the sea surface.

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  • Mr Arabin's beard did not wag as it should have done.

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  • He had let his beard grow, and the rim of fair hair had been bleached almost white by the sunlight.

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  • In 1628 he was returned to parliament as member for the borough, and on the 11th of February 1629 he spoke in support of puritan doctrine, complaining of the attempt by the king to silence Dr Beard, who had raised his voice against the "flat popery" inculcated by Dr Alabaster at Paul's Cross.

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  • Very often he wantonly provoked opposition, as when he shaved off his beard and compelled his chief officials to do likewise, though he well knew that the operation was regarded by the ignorant masses and the pious of all ranks as a sinful defacing of the image of God.

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  • The reverse shows the seated archer, or occasionally an elephant; the head of the king is beardless and wears a helmet and a diadem; only from the third or fourth king they begin to wear a beard after the Iranian fashion.

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  • The treatment of the hair, moustache and beard is extremely interesting in the study of oriental archaeology (see Muller, Meyer, opp. citt.).

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  • Along with Kai and Bedwyr (Bedivere), Peredur (Perceval), Gwalchmai (Gawain), and many others, we have such figures as Sgilti Yscandroed, whose way through the wood lay along the tops of the trees, and whose tread was so light that no blade of grass bent beneath his weight; Sol, who could stand all day upon one leg; Sugyn the son of Sugnedydd, who was "broad-chested" to such a degree that he could suck up the sea on which were three hundred ships and leave nothing but dry land; Gweyyl, the son of Gwestad, who when he was sad would let one of his lips drop beneath his waist and turn up the other like a cap over his head; and Uchtry Varyf Draws, who spread his red untrimmed beard over the eight-and-forty rafters of Arthur's hall.

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  • One contained in the Shah Jahan Nama - a gorgeous specimen of illuminated Persian manuscript and exquisite calligraphy - represents a most ordinary, middle-aged Oriental, with narrow black whisker fringing the cheek and meeting the tip of the chin in a scanty, pointed beard; a thin moustache sweeps in a semicircle from above the upper lip; the eyebrow over the almond-shaped eye is marked but not bushy.

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  • No other hand could have ventured to render the hair and beard of a sitter, as it was the habit of this inveterate linearist to do, not by indication of masses, but by means of an infinity of single lines swept, with a miraculous certainty and fineness of touch, in the richest amd most intricate of decorative curves.

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  • He was a very old man, bent nearly double; but the queerest thing about him was his white hair and beard.

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  • After the play Miss Sullivan took me to see him behind the scenes, and I felt of his curious garb and his flowing hair and beard.

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  • Balaga was a fair-haired, short, and snub-nosed peasant of about twenty- seven; red-faced, with a particularly red thick neck, glittering little eyes, and a small beard.

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  • The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard.

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  • He is 46, sports a raggedy beard and speaks in clipped, high pitched Californian accents.

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  • His beard, which grew in white patches over reddened skin, made him look like a dog with mange.

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  • The torment of creative genius is shown in wild eyes, marble skin, a foxy beard and rouged cheeks.

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  • And the Cadi comes in, a tall man, with long, solemn, sallow face and jet black, flowing beard.

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  • There 's cheeky little Bryan, that naughty scamp Joel, not to mention the daddy - he 's got such a nice beard.

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  • I look the same as age 21 minus the scraggly beard.

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  • The three outer sepals of each flower are called ' falls ' and have a fuzzy central portion called a ' beard '.

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  • Yugoslav fresco and beyond, St. Peter is always portrayed with curly, shortish hair and a rounded white beard.

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  • His face was pale, he had sunken cheeks; his scant beard was untidy.

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  • Special thanks to Ian Beard for providing the Radio Times material.

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  • Ritchie allows his camera to linger for bafflingly long periods on Statham 's uncompromisingly unexpressive face with its unwonted beard and long hair.

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  • Mr Arabin 's beard did not wag as it should have done.

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  • Most Western images of Christ show him as a young, fair-skinned man with long brown hair and a short cropped mustache and beard.

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  • The first permanent application of eyeliner was performed by an occuloplastic surgeon, Dr. Crowell Beard.

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  • Beard tattooed the lash line using a hypodermic needle and syringe to transfer color.

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  • Santa's Beard is a Progression Park with mini jumps and jibs.

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  • Guys can try shaving their heads and growing a beard.

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  • The leaf tip works great for Santa's mustache, and the star tip is good for making realistic swirls in Santa's beard.

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  • Fill a pastry bag with a reddish-orange tinted buttercream frosting and use a large star tip to make a beard along the bottom half of the cake.

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  • Of course, it doesn't help that the very handsome actor is covering up his good looks with a Grizzly Adams beard and shabby clothes.

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  • He is widely known for his bright blue shirts, impeccably trimmed beard, and his habit of shouting at the camera.

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  • The puppy cut generally features fur cut two inches long on the main body, neck and legs, with long hair left only only the head, beard, ears and tail.

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  • The trimming of the face and beard also varies.

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  • Turkeys Beard (Xerophyllum) - X. asphodeloides is a beautiful tuberous-rooted plant with the aspect of an Asphodel, forming a spreading tuft of grassy leaves, its tall flowerstem terminated by a raceme of numerous white blossoms.

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  • You play Colton White, a young hunter in the apprenticeship of Ned, a wise trapper/hunter man who sports fine beard.

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  • At the Mos Eisley Cantina, enter CL4U5H to get the Santa hat and clothes, and then TYH319 for the white beard.

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  • Most of the missions occur at night, but a lot of your surroundings provide even more shadow so you don't know if you're running into a bush or Jose's beard.

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  • He did so because he loved red wines, but they stained his beard, which his wife found unacceptable.

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  • Body ringworm (tinea corporis) can affect any part of the body except the scalp, feet, and facial area where a man's beard grows.

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  • To help the healing process for flat facial warts, men should shave with an electric shaver or temporarily grow a beard.

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  • In males the usual complaints are sexual dysfunction, decreased beard and body hair, breast enlargement, and muscle loss.

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  • Some, like the short, spiky, youthful cut, have been met with great enthusiasm, while others, like the long, straggly locks and beard, raised brows.

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  • Strictly for those who want to channel their inner Viking or Captain Jack Sparrow, if you have a longer beard or goatee, you can create tiny braids in it, and even adorn them with tiny beads or feathers.

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  • Everyone in a band has grown a beard at some point in the last year.

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  • Once a Miss Teen Hawaii finalist, 34-year old Beatie looks like your average male thanks to plenty of testosterone, a beard, and the removal of his breasts.

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  • Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard has been a dominant force in competitive swimming for over ten years.

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  • LoveToKnow Swimsuits is pleased to share our conversation with Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard about her past accomplishments and her plans for the future.

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  • Keep the time the child is in contact with Santa to a minimum, and discourage them from cuddling with Santa, kissing him, or tugging on his beard.

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  • How the chins, Upside-down chins, Smooth or with beard, All will be heard!

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  • Some costumes (again, often the more expensive ones) come with all the accessories such as beard, shoes, even padding for the stomach.

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  • Others just include the suit and maybe a beard.

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  • Add a moustache and beard for extra fun menace.

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  • To give your son that red leprechaun coiffure, buy an orange wig and beard from a costume or discount store.

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  • Smiffy's, a company based in the United Kingdom, offers a leprechaun costume for boys in a jumpsuit style and includes a hat and beard.

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  • Rip up the t-shirt, shred the bottoms of the jeans, tie the bandana on your head, and use eyebrow pencil to draw a beard on your face.

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  • With his jolly belly, long white beard and cozy velour red suit, Santa defines the gift-giving and magical portion of Christmas.

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  • Unless you have your own long white beard, you'll want to invest in a synthetic piece to cover your chin.

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  • Be sure the quality of Santa's beard is the best you can afford to ensure believability.

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  • In addition, opt for skin safe glue to affix the beard to avoid any embarrassing mishaps during your jaunt as Santa.

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  • For the classic red velvet Santa costume worn on stage- simply opt for a Santa suit and ditch the beard.

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  • That, plus the complete coverage of the costume, including the wig, beard and hat and you will definitely earn your money or your wings if you are doing this for a party or performance.

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  • Glue or stitch on the white trim, add a beard and start practicing your "Ho, Ho Ho!"

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  • The other factor to consider is that you will likely have to purchase Santa accessories, such as a beard, belly and toy sack separately, as most traditional St. Nick suits don't include them in the price.

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  • The bargain Santa suit comes with a low price, but you will have to shell out for other accessories, including boots, a beard and a belly.

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  • Trimmed with fur and including a black belt and beard, this classic example of a Santa suit can be worn by nearly any age.

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  • Add a beard, white stockings and a large crown made from plastic shamrocks to rule over the St. Patrick's Day crowd.

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  • She is a James Beard Award winning chef who has worked as a sous chef under many celebrity chefs such as Tom Dougan and Eric Rapport.

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  • And he's one of very few men in the Universe that look stunning with a beard!

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  • Originally a teaser shot of Gandalf, this poster captures him in action with his white beard and hair flowing in the wind, sword drawn for battle.

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  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - Characters refer to "Merlin's Beard" as their exclamation.

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  • Other uses have been the number 8 to represent glasses (as well as a capital B) or the curled brackets to represent moustache and a beard.

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  • On seal-cylinders he is represented as an old man with flowing beard, with the crescent as his symbol.

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  • Oliver was born on the 25th of April 1599, was educated under Dr Thomas Beard, a fervent puritan, at the free school at Huntingdon, and on the 23rd of April 1616 matriculated as a fellow-commoner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, then a hotbed of puritanism, subsequently studying law in London.

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  • Then we have Beard's " germ-cell " hypothesis, in which he holds that many of the germ-cells in the growing embryo fail to reach their proper position - the generative areas - and settle down and become quiescent in some somatic tissue of the embryo.

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  • The physical type represented on these coins has a strong prominent nose, large eyes, a moderately abundant beard and somewhat thick or projecting lips.

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  • Although the more typical goats are markedly distinct from sheep, there is, both as regards wild and domesticated forms, an almost complete gradation from goats to sheep, so that it is exceedingly difficult to define either group. The position of the genus Capra (to all the members of which, as well as some allied species, the name "goat" in its wider sense is applicable) in the family Bovidae is indicated in the article Bovidae, and some of the distinctions between goats and sheep are mentioned in the article Sheep. Here then it will suffice to mention that goats are characterized by the strong and offensive odour of the males, which are furnished with a beard on the chin; while as a general rule glands are present between the middle toes of the fore feet only.

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  • Aubrey describes him as "of a very fair, clear sanguine complexion, with a long beard as white as milk - a very handsome man - tall and slender.

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  • This mosque is specially sacred as possessing what are said to be three hairs of the Prophet's beard, buried with the saint, who was one of the companions of Mahomet.

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  • All of these heads show a high forehead and a pointed beard; and such expression as may be discovered is grave but not savage.

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  • All accounts agree in describing him in later life as a man of handsome presence, with a venerable white beard, piercing black eyes and a benevolent cast of countenance, the effect of which was heightened in conversation by a voice of singular sweetness.

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  • During their travels the beard was allowed to grow, and they prepared for departure by confession and communion.

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  • They wear a full beard, and are characterized by a marked dignity of demeanour.

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  • As a race the Afghans are very handsome and athletic, often with fair complexion and flowing beard, generally black or brown, sometimes, though rarely, red; the features highly aquiline.

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  • Originally nomads (hunters and fishers), all the Finnic people except the Lapps and Ostyaks have long yielded to the influence of civilization, and now everywhere lead settled lives as herdsmen, agriculturists, traders, &c. Physically the Finns (here to be distinguished from the Swedish-speaking population, who retain their Scandinavian qualities) are a strong, hardy race, of low stature, with almost round head, low forehead, flat features, prominent cheek bones, eyes mostly grey and oblique (inclining inwards), short and flat nose, protruding mouth, thick lips, neck very full and strong, so that the occiput seems flat and almost in a straight line with the nape; beard weak and sparse, hair no doubt originally black, but, owing to mixture with other races, now brown, red and even fair; complexion also somewhat brown.

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  • Even the kings, after the first two or three, wear their hair and beard long, in the Iranian fashion, whereas their predecessors are beardless.

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  • About a year before his death, he is described by Sanson,2 a missionary from the French king Louis XIV., as tall, strong and active, a fine princea little too effeminate for a monarch, with a Roman nose very well proportioned to other parts, very large blue eyes, and a midling mouth, a beard painted black, shavd round, and well turnd, even to his ears.

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  • With scarcely any neck, he had round shoulders, a broad face with a flat nose, a thin beard, and squinting eyes, which were generally downcast.

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  • The root bark is reddish-brown, thin and shrivelled, and there is an abundance of rootlets, which are technically known by the name of "beard."

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  • The body generally is covered with soft hair - light olive-brown above and silvery grey beneath - and the chin is furnished underneath with a small pointed yellow beard.

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  • In art he is depicted as a vigorous old man with long hair and beard, his body terminating in a scaly tail, his breast covered with shells and seaweed.

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  • It was named in honour of Thomas Beard, who settled in the vicinity in 1820.

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  • Small "males" are in some species constantly associated with large hermaphrodites, but according to Beard there are in some cases true dwarf males, comparable to the complementary males described by Darwin in the Cirripedia.

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  • The fourth was a peasant, a very handsome man with a broad, light-brown beard and black eyes.

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  • 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.

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  • Zuyev describes them as like the Tunguses, with flattened nose, thick lips, little beard and black, hard hair.

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  • He sometimes draws the beard and whiskers to the side of the head, and to keep it tidy wraps round it a cloth called dhata or galmocha.

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  • The beard is parted in the middle and carried up each side of the face to the top of the head.

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  • His servant was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown.

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  • While the particular prohibition regarding the beard and hair in Lev.

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  • His white beard goes on growing, and when it has thrice encircled the stone table before him the end of the world will come; or, according to another version, Charles will arise and after fighting a great battle on the plain of Wals will reign over a new Germany.

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  • Aristotle is commonly supposed to be the first author who mentions a parrot; but this is an error, for nearly a century earlier Ctesias in his Indica (cap. 3),2 under the name of fib-Taws (Bittacus), so neatly described a bird which could speak an "Indian" language - naturally, as he seems to have thought - or Greek - if it had been taught so to do - about as big as a sparrow-hawk (Hierax), with a purple face and a black beard, otherwise blue-green (cyaneus) and vermilion in colour, so that there cannot be much risk in declaring that he must have had before him a male example of what is now commonly known as the Blossom-headed parakeet, and to ornithologists as Palaeornis cyanocephalus, an inhabitant of many parts of India.

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  • But his brilliantly white, strong teeth which showed in two unbroken semicircles when he laughed--as he often did--were all sound and good, there was not a gray hair in his beard or on his head, and his whole body gave an impression of suppleness and especially of firmness and endurance.

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  • The lunatic's solemn, gloomy face was thin and yellow, with its beard growing in uneven tufts.

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  • The Rajput wears a full beard and whiskers, usually parted in the middle.

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  • The orthodox Conservatives and some democrats who were jealous of his influence, while afraid to beard the great statesman himself, combined to assail his nearest friends.

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