| 单词 | beard |
| 例句 | The beard went under the covering, the nose into the pillow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did you think? That you’d put on a fake beard and I wouldn’t recognize you? Here’s something I’ll bet you never knew about me: I never forget a face. Not ever.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If he had a beard it would be white, but his hair’s just turning and his eyebrows are still jet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A fellow with a week-old beard and a hole in his hat brought a can of beans. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Then the door behind her burst open, and a huge guard with a bushy black beard was suddenly running toward her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A man whose face was covered by long hair, and a full and long beard, hunched over the keyboard, pounding away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z When he woke a dog was licking vomit from his beard, and dark clouds were scuttling across the face of a sickle moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The magician uncurled his beard and blew his nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Mehra’s working on her first movie, which will explore gender relationships in old cinema,” Sahil said, stroking an imaginary beard. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A guy with a beard plays guitar while two girls sing along in harmony. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “The longer you wait,” the beard says, “the more you look like spies.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Why, it was no time before he was toddling around, and talking, and doing little errands. So kind and polite. A perfect joy. And you say he has a beard?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Ragged beards of ice grew down the spears clasped in their snowy fists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I say, “Okay, I don’t know what they say about beards and cupcakes. But I thought for sure you’d know.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The Greeks had an old saying, too: “Red beard and blue eyes portend the Devil.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lord Petyr stroked his pointed beard as he considered the matter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was lean and leathery from the sun, with a scraggling beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After my mother's lipstick is on and my father's scratchy beginnings of a beard are gone . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z After a few moments he muttered to Harry, “Did you see he’s grown a stupid little beard?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was a small dignified scholar with a white goatee beard, and as far as I could gather, he was an astrologer, a meteorologist and a speaker of ancient Greek. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When Reginald visited me, he nervously moved about in his chair; he told me that each hair on my beard was a snake. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His mustaches and his hair and his long brown beard were silky in the lamplight, and the colors of his plaid jacket were gay. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor would have happily given three of his favorite false beards to read her thoughts. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His beard, however, grew thick and frizzy and was the color of fox fur. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Two SS men were beating a child with clubs, a girl smaller than Helena, and then an older man with a beard came tumbling out the doorway of a warehouse like he’d been thrown. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He rubs his graying beard and sighs again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “What?” says the beard, his Noise itching to shoot something. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I pulled at my beard, and the abbot said, “William, you have taken the vows. You wear the robe. You will soon be tonsured. You may not fight. Anyone. For any reason.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A neatly trimmed mustache connected to a beard that covered only his chin lent him an elegant, vaguely aristocratic air. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Early stood with his legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face bleak and grim, black beard dirty and untrimmed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At least she didn’t comment on the fact that I couldn’t raise a beard, though her glance skimmed my chin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z King Hamlet seemed like a giant to me with his vast chest and great beard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "And I'm sick of being thought a callow boy wherever I go, because I'm forced to shave my beard." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Stessman leaned back against the blackboard and rubbed his beard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long grey beard and brass spectacles large as an owl’s eyes over his nose, and he wore a dirty grey robe whose long sleeves covered his hands altogether. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He let go of his beard and grabbed the hair on his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z His long black hair and beard were streaked with silver, and a great overhanging forehead shadowed his glinting eyes, putting Harry in mind of a crab looking out from beneath a rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was wearing a mechanic’s overalls and Franciscan sandals without socks, and he had a huge black beard that reached halfway down his chest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did we starve ourselves to send you to school for? Find a job or else get out of my house. I can’t go on feeding a bearded child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “His father’s settled his people at Oakenshield and will be back this afternoon with eighty fighting men. What did the bearded queen have to say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He must be happy to be free of the beard, though, Nina thought. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With his neatly groomed white beard and distinguished features, he had the bearing of a holy tzaddik. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Shaving a beard wouldn’t change how people thought of him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Tears rolled slowly down alongside the bridge of his nose and disappeared into his beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Grover translated: “Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium” Flanking the entrance, as advertised, were two cement garden gnomes, ugly bearded little runts, smiling and waving, as if they were about to get their picture taken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z His face and beard gleamed with water, and he turned down the sleeves of his blue shirt as he entered the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That head: Bald for most of its surface, trimmed at bottom with a tangled white beard, it resembled an ivory Christmas ball resting on a bed of excelsior. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many of the older boys had downy cheeks or wispy little mustachios, but there was one fellow with a beard as thick as Tormund’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A bearded textile worker in a tumbledown Dodge leaves her at Felicia’s door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She licked his beard, which was full of tears. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One eye wept pus, and his beard was crusty with dried vomit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They landed painfully, ten feet away on the cold stone floor, and to add insult to injury, there was a loud popping noise, and both of them sprouted identical long white beards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The old man crammed his beard in his mouth and began to chew it, as he generally did when he was put about He bit through one of the hairs, which stuck between two teeth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bearded white guy, maybe fifty-five. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His thick beard covered most of his cheeks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The idea was that I would don the beard after I had made my escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hints of silver in his beard and sidelocks, but he was hardly the wizened elder I had imagined. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Under one of the helmets a dark pointed beard and two eyes that are fastened on me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He might shave but once a fortnight, but a shaggy beard does not make a man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In front of the dark mouth of a cave, a scrawny, bearded man in shackles stood next to a big wooden wheel marked with what looked like drawings of little animals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was a rigidly Orthodox school, with services three times a day and with European-trained rabbis, many of them in long, dark coats, all of them bearded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He pointed to a bald, heavily bearded man. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z From the waist up he looks like a regular middle-aged guy with curly brown hair and a scraggly beard. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Most men in Cold Sassy had a beard or just shaved on Saturday night to get ready for Sunday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maybe he even had a full mustache and beard now. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I wanted to take off the beard as soon as I started boxing but Catherine did not want me to. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A bland, phlegmadc smile hung on his brown face with its heavy- bearded cheeks, and he was buffing the facets of his bald head gendy with the palms of both hands. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The priest took the Bible from Hamlet and considered the passage, stroking his bearded chin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Old carrots they are, thick ones, overwintered, bearded from their time in storage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long, gray beard who wore a black coat and was constantly smoking cigarettes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z At Party City the short, bearded guy who waits on us looks barely older than Darren. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Jones turned from the window when the man in the red beard ran off and opened the Life magazine that Darlene had given him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate she saw a couple, a handsome, bearded gentleman with a well-dressed lady on his arm, walking toward her on the opposite side of Merrimack Street. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She turned around and smiled, and Jaime Hugged her compulsively, clasping her to his chest and scratching her forehead with his chin, whose impossible beard was already clamoring for a shave. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So the man with the sandy beard was getting a nice cup of tea to warm him up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was a big, burly brute with pig eyes, a massive gut, and an unkempt black beard that reminded her of Robert. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The King was dressed in a robe of velvet which had belonged to Uther the Conqueror, his father, trimmed with the beards of fourteen kings who had been vanquished in the olden days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And men laughed suddenly at the smiling, wizened little old man, whose sparse white beard was scattered all over his chin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The bearded gravedigger, dressed in a filthy plaid shirt, turns to me and then back to my mother’s plot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At the entrance of the alley, the man with the red beard and his companion slipped around the corner and out of sight. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Not really fair, that I might get myself a beard one day but Khalid never will. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z A fat man with a red beard, Barbarossa had an antiques shop where he sold cheap trash to the tourists, but he also did secret deals with more valuable, and usually stolen, items. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess I saw him through Pink’s eyes that morning, because I was embarrassed all of a sudden, how seedy Grandpa Tweedy looked in ragged overalls, his beard so long and scraggly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘Once when I were sick with the pneumonia I seen God’s face looking out the fireplace at me. It were a large white man’s face with a white beard and blue eyes.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He rubbed his beard, then got up to search his shelves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Big black beard, huge muscles, and armed with a gigantic ax, fighting hordes of monsters or legions of demons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z All the men in my family had long beards. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why do you have a beard in this picture? It’s only two years old! Were you, um ...” I didn’t quite know how to ask how long he’d “been a woman.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just after three o’clock, and there were no bearded, caftaned men or kerchief-wearing women on the street, but the children were outside, playing, shouting, running. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She gave him a silver for his trouble and sent him on his way before she turned back to the old man with the white beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was bent over his walking stick, and his long white beard hung almost to his waist. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A burly, bearded man with a reputation for academic toughness, Shyam taught biology, chemistry, and organic chemistry and was somewhat of a legend among the students. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Old Joe goes to stand by Older Joe, who is wearing a truly terrible purple wool hat and has cranberry sauce caught in his white beard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “As you say. If we encounter this Lady Korra, I will just slip into a skirt and say that I am Cersei, the famous bearded beauty of King’s Landing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The cook smiled through his beard and sat up straighter. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then Hornet saw two adults walk through the gate: a woman with a black hat and a bearded man. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘I would cut off your head, beard and all, Master Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground,’ said Éomer. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a patient sergeant with a long gray beard who put him under guard and sent him along up the dark road to Longstreet’s headquarters. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Amos Diggory’s head was sitting in the middle of the flames like a large, bearded egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I have heard it said that your queen has a great dark beard.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I asked a bearded man sitting at the bar if Dylan Thomas was there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Freud, just twenty-nine, wears a suit and a starched white shirt and has neatly parted hair, a long and tidy beard, and a mustache. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Iggy is scratching at his beard and he starts to say something and my father says, "Shut up and let me think." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It's a bearded policeman, on the roof with us. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z "The Drowned God needed a strong oarsman, I fear," replied the stocky man with the white streak in his beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I always pictured analysts as sophisticated people with short pointed beards, monocles, and German accents. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A man stepped out of the crowd of torchbearers, his black beard obscuring half his face, his eyes glittering in the torchlight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Rising from the table, he patted his beard with his napkin, bowed to my mother, and said, “Another fine dinner as usual, Margaret. Kindly excuse me.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sarah White, the ladies' waiting room matron, noticed the small man with a short beard and dark clothing occasionally wiping the sweat from his face. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Without closing the locker door, he ran out onto Canal Street and jogged metallically toward the central business district, looking over his shoulder for the beard and monocle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Icicles hung from the brown briar of his beard, and his mustache was a lump of frozen snot, glittering redly in the light of sunset. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Zeus in his dark pin-striped suit, his black beard neatly trimmed, and his eyes sparking with energy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “You working for our man then?” asked the bearded man. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Between the heavy mustache and the bushy, white-streaked beard, his mouth stretched across his teeth in a fierce smile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You twist its hat and the pepper comes out of his beard.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A short, fat one with a tangled white beard pointed up into the tree with an ax. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Samuel Hamilton, with his white beard and his pink cheeks and the laughing eyes that lifted her skin and looked underneath. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was at least fifty years old with wild hair and a grizzled beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “None of your friends made fun of my clothes or my beard or whispered about me when I came down the hall?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The stubble on his cheeks and chin made him look like a boy trying to grow his first beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Early one morning, Ramo said he had just seen Captain Orlov carefully trimming his beard so that it looked the way it did when he first came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he saw that much of his hair was gray, and the day-old stubble of whitish beard on his face made him seem older yet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He stroked his beard as if he were stroking the fur of a small animal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He nodded his head, and his right hand went up and stroked his gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Where did you get all this ammunition from?” the corporal asked one of the prisoners, a man with an almost dreadlocked beard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I make a foam beard and try to look at myself in the bathroom mirror, but it's all misted up, and then the shampoo runs into my eyes and makes them sting. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You wonder how that guy gets his red beard?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Imagine a Muslim version of the American Gothic couple, with a beard on the husband and a black hijab on the wife. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Honey and grease ran over his fingers and dripped down into his beard as he nibbled at the tender meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After that: scrubbing his face, digging his fingertips into the itchy growth of unaccustomed beard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z While the king grew gray and serious with the burdens of government, Claudius, with his brown beard, was still vigorous and lusty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There in the doorway stood a tall, thin man with waist-length silver hair and beard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She feels his tongue moving faster, his beard against her thighs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Another sought to add special salts to his shoe lining to make his beard fall out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I think I was half prepared, in my dark, demented state, to see God, bearded and gray as geometry, scowling down at me, shaking his bloodless finger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "I told you not to worry," Hamilton said, satisfied with himself as he caressed his beard. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon haloed in orange, the other a thin, beaked bird-mask, stubbly with two days’ beard, turned angrily towards him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The entry doors are made of wrought iron and glass, and just past them, marble columns and impressive oil paintings of bearded white men line the hallways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She stares down at her husband; there are two pillows under his head, and his bearded chin rests on his chest. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Benny was a regular-size, medium-skinned guy, with a thick black beard that looked like carpet covering the whole bottom half of his face. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z From nowhere, a truck pulls out in front of them, and the cab driver swears in Arabic, by the beard of the Prophet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Circles so dark around his eyes, he looks like a skinny raccoon with a dirty beard. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Albert rubbed his beard and wiped his eyes, then got up and left the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And because he didn’t utter a word about his troubles, his beard began to express silently all the things he wouldn’t allow himself to say. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We had seen Fazlullah’s followers, with their long hair and beards, dressed in black turbans and white shalwar kamiz, in the small towns on the way to visit our family in the mountains. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He remembered a tall man with a ginger beard, and the cheering and whooping of an appreciative audience. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He had a full beard, as bushy as a giant sea sponge, and intense blue eyes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail by the death that grew within him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bear’s red beard seemed to glitter in the firelight, so that his face—despite the dark—was equal to any sun. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The sad priests dusted out their curly beards with goldringed fingers as though hidden spiders had spun sudden cobwebs in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginger Jack’s face was hidden behind a bristly orange beard, and his speech was unintelligible. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were three scarecrows, their clothes in tatters, their faces black with soot and grease, their hair and beards matted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His beard covered so much of his face he seemed always to be peering over a gray cloud. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He was dipping his beard into the water and scrubbing the sidewalk with the beard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There he was, a tall thin bearded man. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There was even a stalk in his beard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He smiled faintly and rubbed his beard, which was quite thick. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In the front row at one of the concerts sat a cherubic man with a white beard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Do you have to grow a beard if it turns out ugly? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He stood on the other side of the door in faded jeans and a plain white T-shirt, his beard scruffy and his eyes bloodshot. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Beneath the tight-trimmed beard his heavy jaw clenched hard, yet he did not hector her about titles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Not one of the boys grew a beard, and many were old enough to. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He had a long narrow face and a chin beard bound about with golden wire, and his stiff red-black hair swept out from his temples to form a pair of taloned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With that Gandalf stood before him, robed in white, his beard now gleaming like pure snow in the twinkling of the leafy sunlight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Aside from the fact that his hair was thinning and he’d put on weight and grown a beard, he was the unmistakable, broad-shouldered, swaggering Bobby Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The bearded schoolmaster was stooped, and his face was lined. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Only one thing 1 can say,” the first captain with the beard said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Small towns being what they are, he would most likely remain “boy” until his beard filled out or he bloodied someone’s nose over the matter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His head was small and perfectly formed, shaped like that of a deer, but with a gray beard growing from his chin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z All the children in the neighborhood loved the stall and Grandpa Hong, with his gray hair and wispy beard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The lean travel rations had only accentuated the exquisite modeling of his features, and his short beard—kept trimmed, unlike everyone else’s—lent him maturity and consequence without sacrificing any of his youthful splendor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He called out tentatively, and a heavyset middle-aged man with a grizzled beard, carrying a lantern, came out of one of the tunnels. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Tyrion glanced at the door, where a man had just come in: tall and stooped, his pointed beard dyed a splotchy purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In fact, he was younger than Ba — the gray of his hair was wiped away with the cloth as well — and his beard and head were as glossy black as Minli’s. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The captain is full of weatherworn wrinkles from a lifetime at sea—although his dark, tangled beard hides many of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He stroked his beard with his fat, ringed fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The dirt that smudged his face gave him the appearance of having a beard, making his young face strangely cruel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The wildling caught him by the end of his billowy white beard and hacked off three-quarters of it with a single slash of the axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had a name tag with a picture of his bearded face. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A man with a bristling beard sits up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A potbellied bearded guy in a wife beater sits at the table. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A scraggly, unkempt beard obscured the bottom half of his face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z "If one Hand can die, why not a second?" replied the man with the accent and the forked yellow beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His black- bearded face—hard, sharp eyes and frowning lips—forever scowled at me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The enchanter pulled on a wisp of beard. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He remembered seeing many cartoons of Communists in newspapers and always they had flaming torches in their hands and wore beards and were trying to commit murder or set things on fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a random, bristly beard, and some of the bristles were white, even though Billy was only twenty-one years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginger hair sprouted on his cheeks, too, sparse as a boy's first beard but not long enough to hide three long, pale scars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His face was obscured almost entirely by a huge beard and mustache, and a domed helmet with a point on top came down to his eyebrows. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z His skin was pale leather, his beard cropped so short that it might have been painted on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His head hung limp upon his chest, his beard spread like a rumpled napkin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z As for his face, most striking was a bushy beard of such ruddy red it seemed as if the lower part of his face was aflame. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The bearded man scowled at Jim and held his fist up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A block away lived another Hasidic sect, Jews from southern Poland, who walked the Brooklyn streets like specters, with their black hats, long black coats, black beards, and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Behind Andrew I see a skinny ghost with a beard and bow tie. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “You have a splendid beard now,” Catherine said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The only feature I could make out was an unruly black beard, which curled over his collar. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to grow a beard down to my navel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But the children had stolen all his wonderful beards. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Through it came three more guards, including—Lina spotted him by his beard—the chief guard. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The fat man was lucky, as was the bearded lady and a handful of dwarves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His beard was black and heavy as though it had grown for three days. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When the light dawned in the morning, they were like a company of ghosts, their faces drained and pale with strain, their beards and hair white with snow and salt spray. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His shaggy, curly red hair and patchy red teenager beard were wet from the shower. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She looked up at Hrothgar’s beard, not his eyes, afraid of him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy walking past me with a mustache on one side of his face and a beard on the other. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Tuma scratched his beard and pulled the old quilt he had wrapped around him tighter. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Yet now he was smiling through his ragged salt-streaked beard in a way that the queen could scarce remember. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had long red hair pulled back, and his long beard had a ponytail holder in it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I asked, as the grey- bearded man tuned his lyre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My own beard is restricted to my chin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them in the boat stood a tall man with a yellow beard. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the red beard was laughing as she flailed in his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Because a person should never show vanity in the presence of death, Lefty stopped shaving and by the day of the funeral had grown nearly a full beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Correction,” says the beard, his voice angry and getting angrier. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His red beard was now snow-white with a few pale orange hairs in it, like a once-proud fire become white ashes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The beard was the same as well, though the face under that thicket of white hair had thinned considerably, and there were deep lines graven in those ruddy cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rex Rollins the casting director does a curtsy, something wildly girly, and that makes the bearded boys hoot so hard that I think one of their beards is going to pop off, like, literally. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They were kind people with specific features, like a man with a blond beard, or a woman with a band of freckles across her nose and different-colored eyes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Jon saw only a fat man, red-faced under his beard, sweating through his silks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His long, fluffy white beard hung down his chest, and a prayer cap covered his bald head. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z For one thing, with his hair and beard trimmed and now neatly dressed, he looked a lot younger, though still much older than I. I would guess maybe thirty or thirty-two. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He's dark skinned, brown eyes, low haircut, full beard, earrings in both ears, no tattoos, average height, average weight, average dude. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Father Time tugged at his sheet of a beard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z So when they saw Kermit’s and Cherrie’s bearded faces, they wondered if they were even human or some kind of animal. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He smoothed his beard down over his broad chest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z His small beard was well peppered with grey, and he wore a leather glove on his maimed left hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When a favorite teacher shaved off his beard, Wesley no longer recognized him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He held his hot tea to his lips, and patted delicately at his beard, his fingers slowly adjusting the symmetry after his nap. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, hey, hold on before you take a seat,” the dude with the exuberant red beard at the front of the class said. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Welcome to Insomnia Con!” the bearded man boomed from the front of the class, beaming congenially around at all of them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But I had become attached to my beard, and I resisted all efforts to get me to shave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We all stand in the backyard, Hassan, Ali, Baba, and I. The mullah recites the prayer, rubs his beard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The views atop the hill were bracing, yet it was the ringwall that drew Jon's eye, the weathered grey stones with their white patches of lichen, their beards of green moss. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The one with the tangled white beard said, “Maybe we could chop the fungus out.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brandon was too kind to you," Ned said as he slammed the small man back against a wall and shoved his dagger up under the little pointed chin beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My pop rockin’ hair halfway down his back and a full beard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The fishermen all swiveled around to stare at Tali, and one of them—a man with a long, scraggly gray beard—said, “You’d be better off avoiding that place.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His mouth, above the thin gray beard, twitched with annoyance. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard is trimmed to a goatee, and his uniform is a white double-breasted suit with gold trim. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither beards nor slacks were forbidden, they said, although of course they preferred men to shave and wear their hair short, and women to wear dresses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He scratched his beard, peered long at the bubbles on the left rear, and poked them with a forefinger like a file. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them, an old man with a white beard who was sitting in my row, even nodded at me and smiled, the corners of his eyes crinkling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My hair was a rat's nest It was singed at the edges like Hephaestus’s beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Ron stood there, his wand still outstretched and a look of shock visible behind his beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Rishi opened his mouth to respond, but Max was standing next to them then, stroking his beard. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He bowed his head, showing a thin glimpse of crooked yellow teeth through the gold of his beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “With a close haircut and a thin mustache and no beard, sir, you’d look—distinguished! Can I? Oh, please, Mr. Blakeslee?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Two clerics with pepper gray long beards and white turbans were taking calls from the faithful all over the world. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One occurred when there was a costume party and he went looking like a young G. B. Shaw in a full red beard. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Gemstones glittered on every finger, and his man had oiled his forked yellow beard until it shone like real gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My father tugged thoughtfully at his beard for a moment. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A thick salt-and-pepper beard now covered his face—perhaps to hide the scars from his attack. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He’s always been clean shaven, except for a beard phase he went through one winter during elementary school. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He had a full mustache and beard, both white, and was wearing a heavy winter overcoat, despite the fact that it was April. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was scrubbing the beards off the mussels and didn’t look up from his work. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Now he was reported to be bearded, wild-haired, and struggling badly with malnutrition and parasites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He stretches his thin arms above his head, and his whole body, especially his white beard, quivers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Next to Ida stood Victor, no beard, no disguise, simply the Victor Esther knew. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z And number eighty-eight—still in the splits!—spins out of them, onto her back, and yells “Faster!” to Sammy, which gets a nice big laugh out of Mark and Marc, the bearded boys. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I see their dark forms, their beards move in the wind. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Customs Officer I, Customs Officer II did have the full and resplendent beard of a True Persian. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He had ice in his beard and more crusting his mustache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tears were sliding down from behind the half-moon spectacles into the long silver beard, and the pride and the gratitude emanating from him filled Harry with the same balm as phoenix song. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Hagrid came back, his long hair and beard sopping wet, wiping the water out of his eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z His white hair reached below his shoulders and his beard hung to his waist. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The domovoi appeared on the railing, plucking at his long beard as he listened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He was tall and slender, bearded, wearing an open-collared shirt and a modest gray coat with missing buttons. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He’d be good-looking by today’s standards, well built with a full beard and kind eyes, almost professorial. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They sing, an antique language as ragged and strange as their beards, a language closer to mine than to their own. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In his photo, Mustafa is a boy, not the gigantic bearded guy standing here now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Brush hairline with hand, then come down the face and trace the space where hopefully, one day, a mustache and beard will be. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Khalid used to give me his half grin as he checked himself in the mirror, looking for signs of his first beard. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z His profile was smooth lines, slightly curved except where his nose jutted out and his beard jutted out at the end of his chin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones from before I was born have beards, but the ones now don’t, because it’s King George, the one at the back of the classroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We passed several more red pickup trucks with armed, bearded young men crammed into the cabs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That wasn't the first time the white men with their long beards and narrowed eyes had come to Rose Hill, taking every Negro boy and girl away to be educated. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards—they look like meek, scolded, St. Bernard dogs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had quickly become the leader of the few Hasidic students in the school, the ones who walked around wearing dark suits, tieless shirts, beards, fringes, and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A doctor, an older man half my dad’s size with a bald head and a short, trimmed beard walked in like he was already late for a tennis class. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They cut his hair and lent him scissors so he could trim his beard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I sat down next to him and asked if he’d seen the bearded birder. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “And anyway," Riccio declared as he came to the end, “the fat liar does dye his beard after all. So I get three brand-new comics from you, Hornet—you haven't forgotten our bet, have you?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He scratched his beard and tapped at the sky, mumbling about dates, trying to recall where he’d been yesterday. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At the front of the pack was a large ghost who held his bearded head under his arm, from which position he was blowing the horn. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A face floated in front of her, fat, bearded, brutal, his mouth twisted with rage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His milky white face was shaded with the stubble of a red beard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Granddaddy appeared with his beard trimmed and his hair plastered down. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He was tall with a booming voice and a bushy beard. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The king smiles at her and rubs his red beard. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z One or two of them had the beginnings of beards. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The bearded soldier ruffled through my nicely folded clothes and checked all of the suitcase’s pockets. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Jaime Lannister had been allowed no razor since the night he was taken in the Whispering Wood, and a shaggy beard covered his face, once so like the queen's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Strangely, Grandfather felt no distress from the heat, even with his full white beard tumbling down his chest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He looked at me, smiling broadly, his teeth showing white through the beard, and I almost thought I saw his eyes mist over. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I bet she looks great in a beard.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The forty-nine-year-old Bobby Fischer was described by a reporter who was covering the match for The New York Times as “an overweight, balding, bearded figure, unmistakably middle-aged, whose expression sometimes seems strikingly vacant.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His beard was made of clouds, constantly popping with lightning and raining down on the god’s chest, soaking his sand-colored toga. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of the Chinese parishioners had donned a Santa Claus costume and a stiff paper beard with cotton balls glued to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short wiry man, near fifty and grey of beard but stronger than he seemed, and he had the best night eyes of anyone Jon had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No, Harry Potter,” said Griphook, and with one finger he twisted the thin black beard upon his chin, “but you are a very odd wizard.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Nor did they notice that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy finally lifts his head—he’s older, with a neatly trimmed gray beard. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As befit a conqueror, 8-Deer was wearing elaborate cotton armor, a ceremonial beard wig, and a cowl made from the head of a jaguar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At first she's a glimpse, caught her going between the van and the front door, talking to the beards. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The light grows brighter still to reveal his face, the gaping eye sockets, the beard torn out in bloody patches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Quickly, Victor stuffed his cap into his left pocket, took off the glasses, and pulled a small beard and a pair of sunglasses out of his right pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Rav Gershenson stroked his pointed beard with his right hand, then asked me for the third time if I was satisfied with what the commentary said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Then the bearded cop hitched his chin at his partner. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Pastor Tom tugged at his beard and shook his head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "Come in, my daughter, come in," the robed and bearded man was saying, and then "Come in, my son" as Shasta panted up to him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He had a long beard combed down the middle and pulled back over his shoulders and tied together in a knot behind his neck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now might come a Saxon wearing the beard and a sort of Phrygian cap, as a sign of defiance—now a knight from the Marches of the Northern border. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a younger man than Father Quinel, short, thin, with large round eyes and the stubble of an ill-shaved beard. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z His smile was a flash of white teeth in the thicket of the huge black beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An image of him with his greasy hair and wiry black beard and blue calloused fingers fills my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Samuel Walter McCandless, Jr., fifty-six years old, is a bearded, taciturn man with longish salt-and-pepper hair combed straight back from a high forehead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Shut your hole, murderer!” says the beard, gesturing with his rifle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z "Perhaps so," the forked beard replied, pausing to catch his breath after the long climb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “His mack, though,” the bearded one said, reaching out to pinch the sleeve of my jacket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was a man Jonas had never noticed before, a bearded man with pale eyes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I wear a beard and mustache but shave my cheeks; said beard, having a dark skunk stripe up the middle and white edges, commemorates certain relatives. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside her, on one side, stood her parents, the man’s beard turning white and the woman grown fat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I had only meant to comfort him, but as I smelled his sweat and felt the spring of his beard against my cheek, an alarm began to clang inside my body. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shorter than most of the men in the village but easily twice as thick, with a tangle of graying red hair that matched his bushy beard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A leopard skin was draped across one shoulder, and hair as red as blood tumbled to his shoulders in oiled ringlets though his pointed beard was black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a black beard, and he carried a book under one arm. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z That summer, all the men except for my grandfather Walter Tate cut their hair close and shaved off their thick beards and mustaches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I smoothed my pinafore, and Granddaddy patted his beard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He raised a hand to draw his knuckles up his jaw line, exactly the way his father rasped his beard stubble, and wiped surreptitiously at the tears that had brimmed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A round scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, and a dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Caesar grappled with a heavyset man with a long dark beard. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had no more beard than a fish. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead, his chest leans against the side of the trench, his face is lemon-yellow, in his beard still burns a cigarette. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They had long hair and beards, and they were carrying Kalashnikov automatic weapons. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was frothing at the mouth, the foamy spittle soaking his beard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her son's beard had grown in redder than his auburn hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He’s one ugly dude, greasy hair matted to his head, a scruffy beard—the kind that looks like a wild fungus on the neck— and black sunglasses. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His curly brown hair and beard had more grey streaks than a few months ago. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Armed, bearded men in black turbans sat in their beds. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a jaunty yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw what I was looking at, a grin split his great bearded face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He moved his dark bearded jaw from side to side and slowly his forehead lowered in a frown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The line o’ Red- beard’s little brother, you want it true.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then a knife was at his throat, a bearded face so close to his that he could count the man’s nose hairs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He turned and saw a pale, bearded man approaching them on foot. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad rubs his chin, which he hasn’t shaved in a while since he’s growing in a beard. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He’s young, with a beard, carrying a book and a backpack. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have a beard,” Dr. Montague said, pleased, and looked around at them with a happy beam. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Squinting up at the shamrock, Harry realized that it was actually comprised of thousands of tiny little bearded men with red vests, each carrying a minute lamp of gold or green. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "This is Odin's doing!" cried a fisherman with a big white beard that blew in the wind like spindrift. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur’s also was prematurely snowed—both men’s lips were red in their silky nests of beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Niran was a tall man with a closely cropped black beard; his hands and face were streaked with dirt, but it could not disguise his surprise and joy at seeing Shae. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A tall man in a gray beard was pleading with Lee to let them attack again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all afire now, Maid and Mother, Warrior and Smith, the Crone with her pearl eyes and the Father with his gilded beard; even the Stranger, carved to look more animal than human. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The principal in my dream had a long beard, and was floating around the room and pointing at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He wears a beard and his face is half Christ and half satyr and his face tells the truth. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Here came the Chief Rabbi, hunched over, his face strange looking w’ithout a beard, a bundle on his back. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “What an idea! The longer the beard, the holier the prophet.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With his white-gold eyebrows and whiskers and beard, and plump, good-natured, reddish face, Otto looks very much like a young Santa Claus. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I could tell he had a beard and mustache and a bit of a belly, but all I could really see unobstructed were his feet and pale, thin calves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He's bearded, his kurta is unbuttoned, and three gold disco chains adorn his hairy chest. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Above the beard, a fading black ropy tattoo stretched across his cheeks and nose. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z His curly hair was white and so was his pointed beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The one in the book—a small ape with a beard—looked nothing like her own house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z George looked at the monocle and the beard at his elbow and said, “Get the hell away from me before I kick your nuts in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tiring-room, Mr. Heminges was putting more white in his beard for his part as Polonius, and Mr. Shakespeare, dressed all in armor, was touching up his ghostly white makeup. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They are grubby and stinking of sweat and urine and filth, and prickly with beards, like cactus—except the women and children—but I do not care. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z A bearded man in a long cloak, whom Poppy introduced as Tayeb the Elder, shot a gun off into the air like a military salute. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes traveled upward and saw a black beard, a broad white smile, a pair of amber eyes, a white turban. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Captain Soderland would stroke his beard; Josiah would wipe the froth from his mustache and clap the captain on the shoulder blade. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Long ago, when his mind had been a nimble boy’s called Wart—long ago he had been taught by an aged benevolence, wagging a white beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing an olive cap and army fatigues, and his curly, graying beard floats below his chin, elongating his tired features. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy with a stubbly beard and tousled brown hair slid aside the velvet curtain and walked out, barefoot and in jeans and no shirt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Water ran from his mouth and dripped down through his beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He heard the gate closed behind him; and the bearded stranger was already helping Aravis off her horse. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z His hair and mustache being dark, he looked years younger without the gray beard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was about two feet high with a stocking cap and white beard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His closely trimmed beard was shot with white, making him look older than his thirty- five years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “There were young blondes in polo coats and hipsters with beards, and the wives of Senators; there were white faces and black faces, ministers’ collars and turtleneck sweaters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I do think he is terribly attractive: that beard alone.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He tossed them, still bound and soaking, into the bottom of the boat, where they wriggled uncomfortably, like a couple of bearded lobsters, and he rowed back to shore. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “They treated me as if I would die. They wouldn’t give me scissors to cut my beard because they thought I would be suicidal. And they locked me in at night.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been too absorbed with watching Dr. van Heerden’s beard fluff out like Fat Cheeks’s mane or with the warthog trailing around after Baba Joseph. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hair crawls all over his head, culminating in a black wiry beard uncoiling in every direction at once. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “See? You should have a beard. You know more than all these old men put together.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wait for the beard to darken our boy’s cheek; then marry whom you will, and move away.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Welcome to the devil's house!” said the bearded man with a mocking bow before opening the heavy door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Victor just stood there, tugging on his beard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z One was slim and elegant, with a pointed beard, a bravo’s blade, and a slashed pink doublet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His hair had gone to grey, but the little pointed beard at the end of his chin was still black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Biff’s new growth of beard was blue against the pale skin of his face and his voice sounded tired. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His face was dark with the growth of beard, and his left eye seemed a little swollen and bloodshot. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Hatchet was right,” the man with the red beard mumbled. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I say, peeking into the room at the bearded man. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He stroked his beard with a hand as blue and delicate as a bird. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "He is in the house while his beard is outside." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Just old enough to have a little bit of gray hair in his beard, but nowhere else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Luke’s beard was so thick, he looked like one of his goats. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Icicles bearded its stony banks, but Jon could still hear the sound of rushing water beneath the thin hard crust. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was not profusely thankful and there was that silence about him, that bearded, gruff, and giant silence, that unwillingness to engage the protocols of island life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I lay my angry head on his chest under his red beard and listen to his voice resonate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All he suffered was a bit of singed beard and a slightly bruised pride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was trapped by his beard and earlocks, he said, and there was nothing he could do. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Hugh would put one large hand on the top of Sean’s head and cup his own chin with the other, scratching at the growth of dark beard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Wait. You...Are you not…” He scratched his beard. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “No, and neither does a screwball like you,” George said, looking at the watering eye behind the monocle and the moistness at the mouth of the beard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair and beard hung straight down like seaweed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon enough the dwarfs’ beards were floating in the foam and there was panic in their eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z With his big belly, bushy beard, and laughing eyes, Mr. Rowan had always reminded Jess of a younger version of Santa Claus. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s a full-page photo of a bulky, bearded guy in a cowboy hat, decked out in a dark gray suit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Along the edge of the wood a sheet of wild clematis showed like a patch of smoke, all its sweet-smelling flowers turned to old man’s beard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Carradale thus was the perfect environment to go one step further and acquire a beard. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They demanded explanations from his father, raised their arms to make their points, tugged agitatedly at their beards, and moved back towards their room quite slowly. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z He was from India, and his beard and turban were signs of his Sikh religious beliefs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z This summer all the men in Palestine had beards, and his cousins, who didn’t, were jealous of his because it made the older girls look twice at Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "Did he have a long white beard and tall pointed hat speckled with stars?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was painted with a bright blue face and red beard and glaring eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the bearded men in their alpaca skull caps and silkolene coats and wondered what made their eyes so small and fierce. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the next evening, as the Carpathia was closing in on New York Harbor, George and Phoebe overheard a skinny man with a beard speaking to an officer. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z He was short and skinny with glasses and a beard that matched the little bit of hair on either side of his head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I’m the leader of the caravan,” said a dark-eyed, bearded man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered what the man with the yellow beard had said, the day she had found the monsters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The emaciated, dirty, bearded face: its eyes never even blinked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Lieutenant Lovett that the man with the broken leg was armed, that he wore a false beard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He beard another arrow hiss through the fronds, and what seemed to be a man’s voice cursing, but it was not very near. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Max stood at the front of the lecture hall, stroking his beard and smiling benevolently at them all. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His skin was green, his beard scraggly brown, and his longish hair was tied back in a seaweed bandana. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He smiles down at me, thru that beard of his, smiles down at me in the grass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z "Fifteen! For the prop of my old age and the delight of my eyes! Do not mock my grey beard, Tarkaan though you be. My price is seventy." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He looks about like what you’d expect for a guy named Muqtada: big; straight gray beard; wide, wrinkled dark face; glasses with white plastic rims. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A man with a small pointed beard lies there; his head is fallen to one side, one arm is halfbent, his head rests helplessly upon it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had scissors in his hand, a small mirror propped in front of him, and was cutting his hair and his beard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The bearded woman spoke an incomprehensible variety of Ghiscari, the goat boy some guttural sailor’s pidgin called the trade talk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a thin gray beard that hung down from his chin, and was wearing a long red and gold robe that looked like the ones on the plates. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He stroked his luxuriant white beard, infinitely sad, infinitely weary. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even his beard was starting to look wet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Once clean shaven and conservatively groomed, he now had a beard and longish hair and affected the military-style clothing characteristic of freedom fighters around the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dylan! Go use your beard to get us some alcohol.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Sherlock Holmes and Watson are followed when they are in London by a man in a coach with a black beard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Do watch out for your beard,” said Spurge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Rabbi Isaac is chewing on the end of his beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A scruffy-looking bearded guy stood in the doorway, stamping water from his boots. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His hair and beard were blacker than charcoal; his skin was as white as a snow field. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z His face was so close that I could see a couple of beard hairs he’d missed when he shaved. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He had a neatly trimmed beard, short hair, and eyebrows that met. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His face had that look old men get when they’d shaved the day before and the beard was just starting to grow back, white specks of dust all over his cheeks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I never realized it would he so simple,” said the king, stroking his beard and smiling broadly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He tore at his beard and rolled on the ground in his fury. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do you do?” said the tall gaunt doctor with the beard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priests with curly beards swung pots of frankincense on chains and never smiled at babies the way they did on usual Sundays. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Men generate before they yet have certain characters, such as a beard or grey hair,” Aristotle wrote perceptively—but they pass on those features to their children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was a hard man of middle height, with a beard so dark and heavy that the lower part of his face looked as though it were molded of iron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The beard of flame diminished quickly; then the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound, and sent a great tree of sparks upwards that leaned away and drifted downwind. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z For a second, I think that we’re passing a pretty convincing caveman, but it turns out to be a really wrecked homeless guy, his beard stringy and dotted with bits of food. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There’s a shadow of a beard on his chin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Soldiers would grab them off the street, beat them, and cut off their beards and side curls, known as payot, just for sport, or what they considered sport. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Reb Saunders stared at me, his eyes suddenly wild with rage, his beard trembling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Frank with his baseball hat and his thick beard. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then I recognized the tweed jacket, the thinning brown hair, the scraggly beard. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “You want us to wait? Would you sit on your hands if it were your child?” shouted a man with a patchy blond beard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The one who knew me looked just like your uncle Reza. He had a red beard. He was still very young, very respectful.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Lurking behind them were a minotaur and a bearded guy with an eye patch. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I knock, only to be told by a prim-seeming manservant with flowers braided in his blond beard that the High King has gone to the great hall. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Once again he saw himself standing there, a young, bearded, naked Samana, his hair full of dust. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z A man with a rolled-up newspaper in his hand was striking another man who had a long red beard and was wearing Bermuda shorts. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Carved in relief, the figure’s beard looked like it was made of enormous stone beads, each with a little swirl in the center, countless tiny galaxies of rock. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His beard is stubbly at this hour, and he’s sweaty. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A potbellied man with thin hair, sagging jowls, and a week- old beard squinted into the sunlight. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Don't think you can just fly off and never return,” said Thor, and he stroked his white beard meaningfully. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I look to Frank, who is still in the backseat, picking blueberry pancake crumbs from his beard. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He had brownish-grayish hair, a short beard, and round brown glasses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The helm beneath his arm was the head of the merling king, with a crown of mother-of-pearl and a jutting beard of jet and jade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally one of them stayed behind in the canoe, and the other, the man without a beard, jumped into the water and came along the beach and up the trail. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad tells us that’s Jesus’ mother there, Mary, in the blue dress, and his father, St. Joseph, the old man with the beard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron grinned at Hagrid, who gave them a furtive smile from behind his bushy beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I asked him how his father had reacted when he had seen him without the beard and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Then I’ll tell you,” Baba said, “but first understand this and understand it now, Amir: You’ll never learn anything of value from those bearded idiots.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was in his fifties, I guess, with short gray hair and a clipped gray beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, well, rat beard wigs will do that sometimes,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z They remain inside the image ring, snow falling softly on their hair and beards, and except for their forms, their prattle, the town is dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z When he finally set it down he forgot to wipe his beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A little black dog with the funniest gray beard and eyebrows rushes at my knees, barking and bouncing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Hodor walked with one eye frozen shut, his thick brown beard a tangle of hoarfrost, icicles drooping from the ends of his bushy mustache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Doc’s pointed brown beard was damp with perspiration as he worked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The old gnome looked up, her face wet with tears. “!zhulpH” She grabbed him in a tight hug and covered his face and beard with kisses. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry approached him, looking up into the face, trying to see past the long, stringy, wire-gray hair and beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I felt myself naked and fragile, an intruder, and my eyes, searching for anything but the bearded faces to look at, settled, finally, upon the sidewalk at my feet. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The bearded lady taught her to play the mandolin, and the snake charmer said she was a natural. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had red hair, a red beard, and a red hairy chest. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Haukelid was awful to look at,” Nielsen later said, “with a dense beard, and marked by the tough life in the mountains.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked in the mirror and patted his beard into shape. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Coming across the field toward the house were four bearded men and two women. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He saw a soft, stooped creature of a man whose dandelion-fluff hair, beard, and brows encroached upon his face to such a degree that only his sharp little nose and round spectacles showed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The deejay calls up a bearded guy named David to the stage. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Father Time had toffee chips in his beard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His fingers were long and bony, always moving, scratching at his beard, tugging at an ear, drumming on a table, twitching, twitching, twitching. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Victor tugged the false beard from, his chin. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a short fat man with a sweat-stained T-shirt and a red beard, who looked as if he’d spent many fine evenings with his friends around the pool table at the Boulder Tap. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His beard was laid like snow upon his knees; but his eyes still burned with a bright light, glinting as he gazed at the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I could almost hear my mother singing to me and feel the tickle of my father’s beard against my cheek. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Paintings of old white men adorned the walls, and here and there an ancient-looking bust of someone with a beard stared emptily from an inlet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Her last foe was a northman with an axe, a big man bald and bearded, clad in a bymie of patched and rusted mail that could only mean he was a chief or champion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Samuel saw it in her face, and he could not feel old himself, white beard or no. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A large man, larger than Lee, full- bearded, blue-eyed, ominous, slow-talking, crude. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sounds like a man after my own heart," said Gilgamesh, brushing the crumbs off his beard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Babylonians thought that comets were celestial beards. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What y’all boys want?” a burly, bearded man asked as they approached his desk. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He was a bearded, quiet fellow in his twenties who carried a walking stick and had a bandanna wrapped around his head. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His beard moved faintly with the trembling of his lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Today her skin was smooth, but someday testosterone would grow a terrible beard all over her face. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z His- eyes were sunk in deep pits, his close-cropped beard no more than a shadow across his hollow cheeks and bony jawbone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But he looked old now; the young face had changed more than could be accounted for by the new lines in his face or the beard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He has very red lips under his white beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed about his lips and ears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “What is it that black peasants want, then?” asked an Afrikaner with a scruffy red beard, in soiled overalls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed a few more rooms and I didn’t care if the Amish were doing card tricks or shaving their beards off. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ray’s up on his hind legs, one brown paw on each of George’s shoulders, placing stinky dog-breath licks onto George’s white beard. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was tall, thin, and young and wore a black beard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had trimmed his beautiful beard and was dressed in a bureaucrat’s gray suit and a faded tie of the same color. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Reb Saunders sat quietly, stroking his beard with his right hand. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The house was indeed Elizabethan, with wooden panels along the corridors, ornate chandeliers, and oil paintings of old bearded men in tunics and ruffs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Each enemy I vanquished dropped a pile of “Zenny coins” that I could later use to purchase armor, weapons, and potions from one of the bearded wise men scattered throughout each level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The commander had him by the pointy beard in under a second. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He was thin and bearded and seemed to be scowling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His face was blotchy with algae, and his beard was overgrown. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was something about his rough exterior—his bushy long hair and uneven beard—combined with his generous and charming nature that attracted the attention of some women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He’s a tall thirty-something Indian man in an impeccably tailored suit, roguishly handsome with a neatly trimmed beard, a steaming cup of tea, and a shiny Union Jack on his lapel. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s so nervous about his brother’s arrival that he’s been pacing the hall and jumping whenever he spots someone with a tan complexion or a white beard. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, child? Be quick, be quick,” he said, his long gray beard wagging with every word. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was slim and sharp, hut his wild beard covered most of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His beard is the color of a chili pepper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He appeared not to be a good juror for that fact....Also, he had a mustache and a goatee type beard. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Without the beard, the guy actually looked normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But this chubby, bearded man with bushy eyebrows, and sneaky eyes, was the exception. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He put on his glasses and hunched over and fished through his papers, his beard crushed on his chest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His photograph was all over, on signs and walls and newspapers, with his fluffy white beard and a dark turban wrapped around his head. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It involved bribes, copies of keys, and even a false beard that was to be sewn into the shoulder pad of one of my jackets brought to me in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who still had faces wore thick beards crusted with ice and frozen snot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His face was lined and grim where it wasn’t hidden by the beard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z To the waist, a man, with red hair and beard, but below that was a horse’s gleaming chestnut body with a long, reddish tail. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z So clear and piercing was the note that the others stood amazed to hear such a sound come from those old bearded lips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The wind was gusting, and the flickering orange light reflected dully off steel helms, thick beards, and unsmiling eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His uncle’s red hair was brushed to the side and his beard was neatly trimmed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The impenetrable forest and rough river had kept the Cinta Larga so isolated that they had never seen a white man before, and they were shocked to see the men’s beards. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z There he was with his angry eyes and his beard roughed up, and all I could think of was him saying, There is always a snitch. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Brought it to a table across the restaurant for this short guy with a foot-long beard. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He smooths his clothes and his short beard and backs away. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "I have a warrant for a certain boy—" Yoren stepped out of the inn, fingering his tangled black beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was a big picture of a bearded man in a woolen Karakul hat on the cover. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Everything about him sparkled, his groomed beard, his watch, his wide shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But it was midweek and there was only Baba and me, us and a couple of longhaired, bearded tourists—“hippies,” I’d heard them called. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Old female relations with incipient beards and several wobbling chins made overnight trips to Ayemenem to commiserate with her about her divorce. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He sported a light beard and a mesh cap with the hardware store name on the front. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z However, despite our lack of facial hair, every Navajo recruit was still expected to put soap on his face each morning and scrape away his imaginary beard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was rather red and he had curly hair and a short pointed beard and two little horns. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A bearded DJ with a shaved head is set up in a corner with a laptop that has colorful stickers all over it and a set of jumbo speakers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His short beard scratched at her cheek as his arms hugged her, round and strong, for the briefest of times. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When the train passed through small towns and villages, they saw men with beards. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The new bidder was an older man, white-haired yet tall and fit, with leathery brown skin and a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A curtain of thinner tendrils hangs down from it, like a scraggly beard clotted with dirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had a long beard and was jolly and always seemed to be drinking hot tea out of a glass. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And there we were, like a man scratching at his own face and bleeding into his own beard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were brown and set deep in his bearded face, and there were dark circles under the lower lids. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He blows his nose and wipes his beard. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z With this he slowly began to unpick his beard, muttering to himself meanwhile and taking the greatest precautions not to drop a stitch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s stroking his beard, and Mom clasps her hands, looking slightly abashed. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In prison, since I had become a Muslim, I had grown a beard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His smile, hidden snugly behind his beard and mustache, faded slightly as he took in her face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He was fat, with a white beard that had turned yellow, kind of like Santa Claus, if Santa had been rolled out of bed and dragged through a landfill. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He seemed taller than when she'd left, and the wisps of beard did make him look older. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His skin is sugar-white and, under a lame beard, his face is broken out like a lava field. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Unfortunately some of these kings had had red hair, some black, some pepper-and-salt, while their growth of beard had been uneven. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the bearded, glowering face reminded Jason very much of the giant Hippie Zeus in Cabin One at Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Do you mind if I put my beard on the table? It’s kinda hot in here and it’s sticking my face.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was driven by outlandish folk, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The day L.V. went to the Houston area to get Boobie, he had a beard and was so massively built that he looked ominous. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me about the man with the red beard, then.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The goblin twisted his beard around his finger again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The other had hungry eyes close-set above a pointed nose, a thin brown beard that did not quite conceal the weak chin beneath it, a bald head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They belong to an old man with a white beard, blinking into the light. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He also had a thin, scraggly beard that seemed designed to proclaim him older than he was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He’s the only dude my age I know who’s rocking a beard. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z His black beard was neady trimmed and his sea-green eyes twinkled. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I forgot that you know Sookie,” I said, looking down at the bearded fisherman standing in the pulpit in Mom’s proposal. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He was standing there, his blue eyes sagging with tiredness, but with a warm smile parting his lips above the beard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks above his beard were pink where the sun had burned his Irish skin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe was favoured to win his first-round match against Sherwood Stewart, a bearded, lanky American from Goose Creek, Texas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The bearded guy bent over in laughter, and then the storyteller looked over at Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The faces around him were bearded, but the beards were clean, neat, and their hands were clean. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z His clothing was torn, his hair and beard were tangled, and he was barefoot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z His white beard and hair were long, but combed and groomed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry I didn’t get you one. But I didn’t want to undo your gym visit, plus you know what they say about dudes with beards eating cupcakes.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He wore a mustache and a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She stroked the top of his head with her fingers and felt the odd sensation of his beard against her breasts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Leo remembered the last thing he’d seen before he passed out—the lima-bean-colored face of the bearded man with the dagger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As summer progressed, the beard grew shaggy, unmown, and it was obvious that Milton was thinking about Pingree Street; he was going to seed the way Pingree Street was. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was tall and bent and his thin beard straggled up his cheeks like dry moss on gray rocks. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “She not only saw past the beard, but she mocked me.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Jaime made fun of her political ideas and bearded friends, and scolded her for having fallen in love with a cafe terrorist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The singer’s beard was brown, though his long hair had largely gone to grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I peeked through my crusty eyes as a fungal zoo of a toe prodded my arm, and a grizzled, bearded face framed by ashy predawn light leaned over me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His gray-streaked black hair was in a topknot, and he wore a pair of tinted glasses and sported a trim beard. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to church. I’m going to see a dead Hells Angel whose face looks like roadkill with a beard.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “My name”—his dark, scraggly beard split in a smile—“is TimeStar.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The man studied him and scratched his beard, which was the exact same shade of red as Joseph’s hair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A scrubby beard covered his face to the cheekbones, giving him an air of ruffianism that went oddly with his large weak frame and nervous movements. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly and asked his name. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All I could do was watch as Polyphemus turned and ripped off Grover’s wedding veil—revealing his curly hair, his scruffy adolescent beard, his tiny horns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the last men to speak came from the back of the room, but I recognized his thick gray beard instantly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The bearded cop eyed the two rifles warily. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He has a very black beard so that he has to shave twice daily, and he owns one of these electric razors. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Percy battled the giant twins, Otis and Ephialtes, while at his side fought a bearded man with a trident and a loud Hawaiian shirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The police had one picture of me with a beard, which they widely distributed, and my colleagues urged me to shave it off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tractor I was driving belonged to George Naylor, a big man with a moon face and a scraggly gray beard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His beard was fashionably scruffy, like Piper’s dad and his actor friends wore theirs—the sort of I just happened not to shave for two days and I still look awesome look. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z By the middle of January 1 had a beard and the winter had settled into bright cold days and hard cold nights. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I take a few steps closer and notice that Rock has some gray hairs in his beard, just like Daddy did. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Leaves and twigs were tangled in his thick, wiry black beard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A scattering of crumbs clung to his beard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Wheelie called out “Bruce?” and a guy with a short gray beard popped his head into the waiting room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z A bearded man sat on a throne, holding a staff in one hand and a hyacinth in the other. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “You know, General, under this beard I’m not a young man.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was staring at Barbarossa's ginger beard as if he expected something to crawl out of it at any moment. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the tray was blue-eyed and handsome with a carefully trimmed beard and high Modegan cheekbones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grizzled beard, bad teeth, nose askew, showing septum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "It's legit!" he said, and pulled nervously on his long black beard as if it were black taffy. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He thrust the end of his beard into his mouth, stared tragically at the fire, and began to munch it fiercely. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The least they could do was pretend that we didn’t look like fools in our ballooning togas and beards and bows and arrows. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “His hair’s gray, right? You think he dyes it that color? Or does he dye his beard?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Everywhere we went, dead Confederate sailors stared at us, their ghostly bearded feces shimmering over their skulls. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He stroked his short beard with a trace of amusement. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His wild gray hair and long beard made him look like a cross between Albert Einstein and Santa Claus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “My face says I’m all that,” Malcolm says, rubbing them six chin hairs he calls a beard. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z And then they saw bearded Billy Pilgrim in his blue toga and silver shoes, with his hands in a muff. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the beard and the turban, who did not believe in ghosts, was looking around him nervously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Old Hirsch will shave his beard, and they will both dress as workers, like Max did. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Houseman found the young actor sitting in his dressing room, his costume and fake beard lying to the side. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And he had a white beard—a skinny black Santa Claus. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Edward looked up and saw that the feet were attached to an enormous man with a long, dark beard. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The loudspeaker voice belonged to a slender, bearded young man who wore a black turban. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The man behind the museum counter is bearded, maybe fifty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Every now and then he flicked water on his face, letting it wet his two- day-old beard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He had several feet of long silver hair and beard, half-moon spectacles, and an extremely crooked nose. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Without a word, he sat down before us and opened his book, leafing through the pages and stroking his beard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at Marly, and his gray beard shook when he laughed. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes was enough dme for the day’s dirt to fall to the bottom of the tub, while Vonetta and Fern styled bubble beehive hairdos on their heads and beards on each other. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Chiron sat back in his wheelchair and stroked his beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He looked like himself again—tan and strong with a black beard. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He had a thick black beard and a full head of black hair topped with a cap. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was back in the dank room with the tom bed hangings, and the face was wrong, not hers, too round, with a brown fringe of beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now, at almost eighteen, he had long hair and a shaggy beard, a dislike for authority, a VW van in which, he said, they could live. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A short, thin, balding man with a shaggy gray beard opened the door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Men with long beards and crisp turbans hung off the sides, pointing in their direction. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Yoren had a twisted shoulder and a sour smell, his hair and beard were matted and greasy and full of lice, his clothing old, patched, and sel-dom washed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It would be so easy to hide here, as she had hidden from the wizard and the man with the forked beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His smile was a triangle, upcurved on the sides and reaching a point below, like his beard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But through the mist I could make out Crenshaw in the shower, fashioning a bubble beard. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had no visible mouth, his smile discernible only as a ripple where his dandelion-fluff mustache overlapped his beard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He strokes an imaginary beard, studying me for a very long time, then returns his attention to Broken Me-Blob No. 6. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You’re doing very well, Fabiola. Stay focused,” he says with what I think is a smile hidden beneath all that beard. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And then a guy with brown hair and a short red beard slides into the empty row in front of us and smiles at me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His tightly curling hair was cut short, and he had a narrow, short beard along his jawbone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The round Mongol faces had given way to faces of a more European type, dirty, bearded, and exhausted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had a little bit of oatmeal on his beard. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Amos Diggory muttered again, now reddening behind his scrubby brown beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The other was small and thin, with a goatee beard on his receding chin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On his left cheek, an ugly raised scar ran all the way from the corner of his eye into the depths of his dark beard. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The painter took great care to paint all of the man’s beard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Groups of men with long beards and loud voices. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the handsome male with the dense white beard. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He stood still in the torchlight with some straws in his beard, a pitiful figure in his jester’s patchwork. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z An eighth grader with what looked to me like a full-on beard demanded my math homework from last Tuesday. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I had grown accustomed to people staring at Danny, at his beard and side curls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His legs were stilts, his eyes leaked water, his beard ended in wisps at the third button of his vest, his skin appeared pink and chafed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He sighed again and shook his head slowly, the gray beard moving back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They had wrapped athletic towels on their heads and wore fake beards. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I'm not sure what I expected, but this man's face, with its neatly trimmed beard and round glasses, is nothing like my reflection. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was cutting off the man’s beard and the black hair that came curling down over his ears. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The man on the stage, a slick-haired, bearded fellow whose white gloves move like birds against the black of his suit, performs simple tricks and sleight-of-hand misdirections. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Those who saw him said that he fired his musket even as an arrow went right through his beard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Having packed, he combed and trimmed his brown beard, saw that his pencils were in his shirt pocket and his magnifying glass attached to his lapel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Hornet looked up into his face with surprise—and now she recognized him too: Victor, the snoop, with a new beard! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He stroked his fake, thin beard and sensed that it was beginning to develop a life of its own. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z At their head was a man stick-thin and very tall, with a drawn emaciated face made even longer by the ropy black beard that grew from his pointed chin nearly to his waist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The faces looked so young to him: braces, acne, retainers, the very first bristles of a beard. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The thief fled on foot but was later spotted entering a yellow car driven by a black man with a beard and a mustache. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair and beard and mustache were dark red too, and his eyes gleamed startlingly blue against his coloring. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was shaved close to the blue roots of his beard, and his hands were clean and his nails polished. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coin tricks is it?” asked Sweeney, his chin raising, his scruffy beard bristling. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Bear rubbed his face and beard, then rolled down onto his back. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Bunny was blowing her whistle and the Hells Angel with his wild hair and bushy beard could see me in the firelight. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Superimposed against the images of these peaks, the poster showed a grinning, bearded man in full alpine regalia. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His beard had grown wilder over the summer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Some were hairy and bearded, shaggy men fierce as the wolves that crouched by their feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hyacinth trembled as she stood before a monster of a man with shaggy dark hair and a beard streaked with white. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The thought of the white cottage in flames, his memory of Dallben’s beard, and the heroic Coll’s bald head touched him all at once. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Manet ran a hand idly over his wild, grey beard as he eyed the heat waves rolling off the brick kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Great trailing beards of lichen hung from them, blowing and swaying in the breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A man with wrinkled brown skin and a long white beard blocks the path to the elevator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Olanna looked at her and saw a malevolence in the beard and hairy arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Geiger, the bearded, hippie teacher cracked a joke about the principal, and a few people laughed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Miss Love cut off most of the thick gray beard with the scissors, after which Grandpa wrapped a steaming towel around his face to soften the stubble. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His beard had gone almost completely gray, and he sat stooped forward, bent, as though he were carrying something on his shoulders. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He’d raised his lantern and stood there like that, his bearded chin set, expressionless. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, an angry little bearded man in a green suit is brought in. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For any one of these offenses, a child might be kept after school for a week; for all three, he might be sent to reform school until his beard grew down to his knees. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee is fifty-eight years old, a tall, rugged Virginian with a silver beard and formal air. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I could probably zap his stupid beard off if I put my mind to it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His cheek looks rough, like if he didn’t shave it, he would have a thick beard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was a great, bearded man in a splendid uniform. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He was white, with an impressive gray mustache that wrapped around his face to make a curious sort of beard. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A strange gray dust was trapped in his salt-and-pepper beard, and a thin white film had crawled over his open brown eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The silver hair of his beard seemed to flow like a glowing waterfall and disappear into the folds of his robes, and his dark eyes matched the blackness of the night sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She had almost started to scream when she saw the man with the red beard appear in her yard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out two of the black, bearded mollusks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He just sat on the patio as the beard, like a stain, like a fungus, spread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But who can draw such a distinction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles’ beards. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore half-moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Dumbledore’s long silver hair and beard, the piercingly blue eyes behind half-moon spectacles, the crooked nose: Everything was as he had remembered it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A thwack on Frank’s back from a guy a full head taller than him, with a thick beard, a loud voice, and a face sunburned bright red just like Frank’s. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Seeing him with short hair, and without that big droopy mustache and bushy gray beard, I was surprised all over again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He rubbed his white beard and adjusted his Carhartt ball cap. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Samuel’s beard glinted white, and his graying hair stood up high on his head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mulch’s beard and head hair were actually a matrix of antennae that helped him to navigate and avoid danger belowground. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Mark and Marc stare at me, their jaws collectively dropped to the floor, the grime of a thousand New York auditions blowing into their little bearded mouths. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, got a nice beard. It’s turning white fast, beginning to grizzle up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The teacher, a really tall man with a yellow beard, was writing on the chalkboard. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s terrible,” growled Hagrid into his beard, as the three of them walked back along the corridor to the marble staircase. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Behind the wild beard and eyebrows he wore a very kind smile. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He had gray hair and a red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He had a round, bearded face and a slight paunch that was probably only noticeable because he was sitting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His trident beard was purple, his flamboyant mustachios gold, his long curls equal parts of both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a weathered, suntanned face with a dark beard and deep green eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He was a black man with gray hair and a gray beard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I wondered what my wife Betty, and our little daughters, were going to say when they saw me with a beard, when I got back to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubs his beard, which is still growing in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The sticky juice was still in his beard as my dad reached in to fix it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The man turned, pivoting the upper portion of his body—a middle-aged man, his dark beard streaked with gray, his thick brows edging into a frown of annoyance—and I saw his eyes go wide. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “And this must be your boy,” the bearded man said. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His hair was tangled with weeds and seemed to be growing through a rusty crown; his skin was greenish, and his long beard trailed over his throat and down into the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Women with kohl-rimmed eyes flocked around carts of multicolored pots, while bearded men in extravagant garb haggled over wax-dyed textiles that shimmered in the breeze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Come see. There’s a man cleaning the sidewalk with his beard!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In particular he wanted a Herald picture of himself in a full beard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Putting the warning back into her voice, she said, “But if you two go running off like lawmen again, I’ll lock you away until you can grow beards.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Primus scratched his beard, and looked down at the crumpled thing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t look very different from any elderly man, close to, and had a clipped gray beard and his coat buttoned all the way down the front. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z His beard was gone, and without it, Tad didn’t recognize him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She felt the urge to yank at his new beard and pull out hair and draw blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m stayin’,” said Hagrid, fat tears still leaking out of the corners of his eyes and trickling down into his tangled beard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He came forward and gathered me into a clumsy hug, his beard tickling the side of my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some men cried, their tears freezing on their bearded cheeks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z While the service station checked his oil and tires, Doc washed his face and combed his beard and when he came back to the car a number of potential hitchhikers were waiting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A bearded face appeared blinking at the foot of the stairs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Standing next to him was an old man with a bushy white beard and gray hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “You’ll get your reward,” the night rider with the beard said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Like tattooed roadkill only with a long black beard on one end and crushed black boots on the other,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "You cut your beard. As if I would not have known you with your beard gone, Primus." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Merlyn, in his running breeches, looked rather like Lord Baden-Fowdl, except, of course, that the latter did not wear a beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reach the end, Trub strokes his bushy beard and thinks for a moment. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z His dark bushy hair and long gray beard were tangled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His beard was all that warmed him, and he clutched it to his chest. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Some kid once drew eyeglasses and a beard on his picture, and when the pencil marks were erased it left his face all dirty. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sergeant Pike was an older man with silver hair and beard, and he shook my father’s hand like they knew each other. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His pointed beard was veined with white, as were his eyebrows, arched like poisonous centipedes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His face looked gaunt, his bearded cheeks hollow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His toothbrush mustache and severe parting looked very odd next to Dumbledore’s long white hair and beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z About the only audience he could count on was a bearded character everyone called the Mad Russian, who had been wandering Sequim’s streets barefoot and muttering to himself for as long as anyone could remember. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He ran a hand over his triangular beard, considering where to begin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z "Is it true, my lord?" asked the High Septon, a small, shrewd man with a wispy white beard and wizened face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He nodded, and the long black beard went back and forth against his chest. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He took a coin from the candle flame of a candle on the wall, another from his beard, a third from Shadow’s empty left hand, and dropped them, one by one, into the glass. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He looked distinguished with his full white beard and his long coat. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked almost solid now—a pale bearded king with cold eyes and tendrils of Mist coiling off his robes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt-and-pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He nods, melted chocolate smearing the lower half of his face like a painted beard. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z His eyes looked glazed, and he was pulling at the hair of his beard with the fingers of his left hand. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the lords and ladies, the serving men, the old blind seneschal, and the young maester Myles, with his silky beard and servile smile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was searching for a big guy with a good tan and a black beard, wearing Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In the picture beneath the headline is a young man with a plain face and a beard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes people just wandered into the room, like the tall, bearded man who walked in just before Farid and Sohrab arrived. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One was old, with a long beard, streaked with gray. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Pycelle's spotted hand was clutching at his beard the way a drowning man clutches for a rope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sides of its face were furry, like it was trying to grow a beard, and out of this short bed of hair, its two tiny curled horns grew. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He would’ve made one @#$% of a Santa Claus if you had put a white beard on him and stuck him on a street corner in December with a little whiskey on his breath. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z But then, a man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn’t known-r-they might call the police. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked like TV wresders, muscular, with beards and long hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I told the old man my story while he rubbed his beard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z This weekend his white beard is cropped close to his face, and he is wearing a linen safari suit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z "The best kind? The best kind? I see," he said, brushing his beard down with the palm of his hand. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Darling, would you like to grow a beard?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Helvar stood silent sentinel, observing it all, looking seasick green beneath his blond beard. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Their beards were full of ice, and the falling snow had given them white hoods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry noticed a dull red flush rising up out of Hagrid’s wild black beard, and his heart sank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was a huge guy with stark white hair, a straw cowboy hat, and a braided white beard—kind of like Father Time, if Father Time went redneck and got totally jacked. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A woman who’s just gotten her clothes bagged walks away from the table, and as the next person comes up, the bearded man’s eyes roam the room and land on Courtney and me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In Seattle, two bunk cars and a bona fide freak—a bearded lady—and this made him happy, for what Uncle Al craves above all else, what Uncle Al dreams of at night, are freaks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Now that he’d grown a beard, most people didn’t recognize him, and he recaptured the peace and incognito of his earlier trips. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was hard to miss: three times older than any of the other students with his wild hair and grizzled beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He swayed back and forth in his leather chair, his fingers stroking his beard, and continued to speak in a quiet, singsong voice. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Zooey looked back at her steadily, then smiled and faced around to examine his beard in the mirror. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He just held his good hat in his hand and let the tears run down his face and into his bushy salt-and-pepper beard. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He scratched his beard with his free hand. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His lips are red, and his orange-red beard is neat, closely cropped. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Father Mike was holding my mother’s hand, leaning his bearded face close to her and looking into her eyes as he spoke softly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Something about a giant talking cat with a bubble beard. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We stepped closer to the edge and looked down to see an old man with a white beard opening an oddly-shaped instrument case. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They all turned to look at her, the boys shirtless and small against the walls of raspberries, Carl bent at the knees, his knife in hand, a giant with a russet beard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His long face was made even longer by a beard bound with rings of gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And the one closest to the door with the beard made of icicles had to be old Whoresbane Umber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The next day, he bearded Lawrence in his office with the words “We have to do something about this.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He put down his fork and patted his napkin to his beard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall bearded man with broad shoulders stood up to greet us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a lean, bearded man, with a soft voice that one had to listen for in the wind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an old couple chewing without talking at a corner booth, and a man with a long beard and ponytail sitting by himself at the counter. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His face was older in the morning light, with the closed, shrunken eyelids and the heavy, iron-like beard on his cheeks and jaw. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He is dark and lanky, has a long beard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He ran a hand through his thick dark beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "I had forgotten how much a new beard itches," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A face pressed close to hers, long black hair and tangled beard and rotten teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Plus, I get to let my beard grow in again,” Dad says with a laugh. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z His shaggy grey beard had been singed in the fire, and he'd hacked it off. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A pale, thin man with a reddish blond beard spoke quickly into the phone and then hung up.“I seen ’er,” he said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He looked about helplessly, and he rubbed his beard. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When I went to the boys’ washroom to get it off, I looked in the mirror and, gosh, it was like I’d grown a black beard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “In the morning when he crawls out of his tent he sits on a rock and combs until the beard shines like a cormorant’s wing,” Ramo said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The former portrayed God as an old blue-eyed white man with a long white beard, sitting between white, fluffy clouds, flanked by two bearded white men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the men stood up—a huge guy with a long tangled pitch-black beard and teeth the same color. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The shadow of a well-uprooted beard on his paraffin face looked like a question of conscience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Lina reached up and grabbed a handful of his wiry beard. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The bearded priests had drilled him on the Common Speech of Westeros before they sent him forth, but the Domishmen all spoke too quickly for him to understand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The huge man smiled, his teeth a yellow crevasse in the hairy wilderness of his beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Scraps of red food dot his dark beard, and his eyes are wild and unhinged. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He is trying to grow a beard, and the soft hairs brush her cheek as he hugs back. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The bearded aquarium worker had been replaced by a woman with a blonde ponytail. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Getting the lakebed off the men was problematic; the hot water ran out long before the men did, and because the PX didn’t sell shaving soap, practically everyone had a brambly, dust-catching beard. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He stopped in front of her and took off his hat, and then she saw the beautiful black eyes shining between a disheveled head of hair and a rough beard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He tossed the paper clip onto his desk blotter; now he stroked his beard some more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I’d even see little rivers of ice forming in parts of his mustache and beard, or I’d see him reach down to make sure his dog was covered by the blanket. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He had a medium beard and wore a sailors hat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z More than anything, he wanted to turn back the clock to before the beard and the suspicion it brought into focus. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I see,” said the man, pulling at his beard. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard burst into flames and his black eyes glowed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His bearded chin bobbed on the rump of the horse and his face went in and out of the horse’s tail. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Around the room, the wainscoting panels have been painted to depict scenes of pre-Civil War times, happy Negroes picking cotton, horses pulling wagons, white- bearded statesmen on the steps of our capitol. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Before them, at a long stone table, a dwarfish figure with a bristling yellow beard glared at the warriors. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tiflin kissed Grandfather on the side of his beard, and stood still while his big hand patted her shoulder. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z All he had to do was grow a beard, which he did, and visit the mosque, which he also did. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Ray is thin and doesn’t have a beard—the opposite of my dad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And I added a pointed beard and lace at the throat, as the painter had done, long ago in a different time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He’s dressed in dark jeans and a T-shirt, and his short scruffy beard makes him look older than Zohra, even though they’re the same age. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z His beard and nose stuck out through the cheekplates, and his eyes, in the shadowed recess of the helmet, were like two dark holes in a tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z An arm emerged, then a face—brown hair, tangled and matted and streaked with grey, two fierce eyes, a nose, a mouth, a beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Wouldn't you know," the bearded man says with a lightness in his voice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The flames dissipated, and standing before us was a tall man in gray overalls and a metal leg brace, his beard and hair smoldering with fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Jones remembered the same weak eves on top of a red beard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They donned rumpled shirts with no ties and wore sandals; some of them sported beards. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Merlyn scratched his chin in the middle of the beard, with the hand which held the reins, and pondered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He paced by the river, rubbing his hands together, then his tattooed face, then running his hands through his hair and beard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Yoren was stooped and sinister, his features hidden behind a beard as black as his clothing, but he seemed as tough as an old root and as hard as stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The fine golden whiskers of his beard were still flecked with blood and his own sweat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the red beard kicked him in the side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Edmure Hilly was a stocky young man with a shaggy head of auburn hair and a fiery beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A thickly bearded photographer had his studio on the floor above Molly’s. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was craggy, his beard white and red. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I remember seeing a few pictures of writers in our literature book—mostly boring-looking white guys with beards. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The lodgers rose up collectively and murmured something in their beards. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he cried his beard filled up with tears. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid s beard twitched and they could tell he was smiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He was the only one of the four who had a beard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin silver mist emanated from him, and his beard fell like a cascading waterfall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He was old, had a gut as big as Jim’s and a long gray beard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The face was younger; the short beard, darker; but it was he, all right. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z His chin gradually came to rest on his collarbone; his beard floated around his ears like a fog bank; and he began snoring peacefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Finally we found ourselves in the office of a tall man with a thick white Santa Claus beard and wild, bushy eyebrows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z An elder with gray hair and a beard began a fable about a baboon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z From the look of him, he had not shaved since she rode south; his beard was a fiery bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some of the houses were decked out in colored lights, and one had a wooden model of a bearded man in a cart pulled by eight antelope. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have no beard,” Luke said, “so he must be Doctor Montague.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The man with the beard and the turban was almost out of flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Even without the beard, Orson Welles had so expertly concealed his facial features under heavy makeup and a false nose that he was unrecognizable. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Save for a few more beards, they looked no different from any other Parisian. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “No, I Boots!” said the little girl, tugging at his beard. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d just had a haircut and a beard trim, and he was neatly dressed, wearing a tan suit that he’d had custom-made in Belgrade. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His black beard was beaded with thick white droplets when he threw the empty cup aside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We turn toward an old monk with a long white beard, sitting at the far end of the table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z If this was a man’s world, a veil took the rough beard right off it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bearded man looked nervously at his son, and then back to William. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He must’ve been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The colonel wore his khaki shirt collar wide open, exposing a shadow of tough black bristles of beard on his egg-white neck, and had a spongy hanging underlip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Back by the fire, a bald man with a grey beard chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They nodded and murmured respectful greetings to Danny, and one of them, an incredibly old man with a white beard and a bent body, reached out and touched his arm as we passed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His matching white beard is thick and long, which also makes me think of Santa again. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Redbeard, whom Lac had seen less than an hour before, lay on the dock, blood at his ankle and at his chest, staining his scraggly beard a deeper shade of red. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was handsome, his beard clipped and short, his brow broad and clear, and his nose straight and sturdy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Occupying some dunes on the other side of the field were homeless guys, with long beards, their faces brown from sun and dirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was a stooped-over little man with a long gray beard. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z He nodded his head at the murmur of greetings directed to him from the seats, and his long black beard moved back and forth against his chest, and his earlocks swayed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He was about twenty feet tall and extremely muscular, with a flowing white beard, scraggly hair, and a wild look in his eyes, like a crazy hermit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had a strange skimpy-looking little beard and his eyes were deep set and as blank as an empty well. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z With the long hair, the beard, and the pale white color he looked quite wild, but also, I have to admit, rather poetic. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He shook me, though not roughly, and clawed at his beard in evident distress. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The colonel said that the other Americans had all shaved now, that Billy and Derby were the only two still with beards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa had been clean-shaven at the funeral, but now he wore a stubbly white beard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z No. God was a nice old white man, with long white hair, flowing white beard, and little blue eyes that looked sad when people died and mean when they were bad. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She took in all the little details of him: the beginnings of a beard reaching down the line of his jaw, his wide nose and long eyelashes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But it was only a thin fellow with a red nose and a scraggly beard, smiling apologetically. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z More old Scholars, probably; robed, bearded, and gloomy, they stared out of their frames in solemn disapproval. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A carefully trimmed beard the color of soot sharpened the edges of his knife blade face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The instructor at the front, with a full beard and dressed in a colorful vest, was fiddling around with the mic on his podium. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Even Fred and George joined in, once they had gotten to their feet and taken a good look at each other’s beards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Apparently, the Übermensch had once been an Überhippie, complete with a scruffy beard and hair that reached past his shoulders. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Looking over to where I stood, he scratched his bushy beard with both hands, a thoughtful look on his face, then strode over to where I stood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We’d been in the car so long that Dad had started growing a beard. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad is in the doorway, bagel crumbs in his beard. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Robin lies down and rests his bearded chin on Mom’s toes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Monsieur Delacour was nowhere near as attractive as his wife; he was a head shorter and extremely plump, with a little, pointed black beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He had a beard and didn't look like no punk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Kaede noticed he had grown a beard, too, and she wondered when he had stopped shaving. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The goat screamed, feeling its beard tugged painfully, and it jerked back. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He strokes his beard, transporting flecks of clay from his hand to it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Of wearing their skins and skulls and fangs; unkempt, bearded, and reeking of decay; a derelict hull. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Scrubbed and groomed, clad in green velvets and an ermine half-cape, with his long red hair freshly washed and his fiery beard shaped and trimmed, the wildling looked every inch a southron lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Primus's face felt strangely cold; he missed his thick beard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He leaned an elbow upon the large podium, and then the hand that was stroking the beard began to play with an earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He had a couple of days’ growth of sparse, blond beard. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Part of me expected the Customs officer to have a turban and a full beard, like all the other Middle Easterners on TV. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He trimmed his beard with the scissors while a pan of water heated and then he shaved himself with a plastic safety razor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Today, he’s wearing simple blue robes, but with his white dreadlocks tied back and his trimmed beard, he still looks annoyingly regal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He chortled to himself, rocking and bouncing as if he were a lanky, bearded, drunken volcano preparing to erupt with delight at his own brilliance. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I woke the head of the household, a man with a gray beard and the gaze of a dreamer. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora assigned it to the shorter night rider, the one with the beard. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Brother Ugo scratched his white beard, frowning as he examined them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He still looked as if he had slept for the last week in his clothes; but his beard had been trimmed, or at least washed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I was forty-one now, well past my climbing prime, with a graying beard, bad gums, and fifteen extra pounds around my midriff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z At the age of twelve, gray bearded and teetering, Melina was a wonder of science. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Jerome exclaims, his face flushing burgundy behind his beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I saw his head nod slightly and the beard go up and down against his chest. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My father continued to tug on his beard, but his face was more reflective now, his eyes far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The port caught the light from the chandelier and splashed a ruby wave across his beard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I end up keeping pace with a sandy-haired youth with a sparse beard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He kisses my forehead, and his beard grazes my skin. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The fat man stroked one of the prongs of his oiled yellow beard, a gesture Tyrion found remarkably obscene. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ainu men have a luxuriant beard and the most profuse body hair of any people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mustafa grins, and I notice his usually scruffy beard is neatly trimmed today. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Men should grow their hair and beards long, not keep them short, in what he called the “innovative” fashion. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It’s early morning, and the restaurant’s almost empty except for us and these big-bellied, bearded truckers stuffing their faces in a booth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z A grizzled beard and yellow rain boots as he pulled up a net full of tuna or salmon or whatever. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z This was a big help in telling who was a Jew, as they no longer wore beards. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Like all of them, he was tall, but he wore a tidy beard, and his long blond hair showed gray at the temples. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He had shaved off the beard he had grown during their journey, and it made him look younger and more vulnerable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I even have some false beards!” she said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a large, hairy man who shaved twice a day and still looked as if he had a four-day-old beard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was streaked with gray, and his beard was long and curly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I like that story,” he said, grinning widely behind his beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His beard was pointed like a spear blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man’s skin was the color of a lima bean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I leapt over the remains of a sentry fire, bumped into a gray- bearded soldier wearing a homespun shirt, and startled a man carrying two live hens by the feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard and mustache are so thick that I can’t tell whether he smiles or not. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z From bearded peddlers to servant girls carrying armfuls of hatboxes, everyone paused as the flag-bearers trotted proudly ahead, and Dorian Havilliard waved. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "I don't ken. A wight wi' long, dark hair and a pointy beard." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mark, one of the bearded casting assistants, says. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “There have been falconers around,” he says, stroking his beard. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The gaoler was a scarecrow of a man with a rat's face and frayed beard, clad in a mail shirt and a leather half cape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Chiron’s brown beard was shaggier for the winter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Jason wondered if you could shave a thundercloud beard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z All activity seemed to indicate the end of their journey—crates and cartons were packed, sails were sewn and repaired, and sailors whistled as they shaved their beards. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an old man with sunken, bloodshot eyes, deep cracks in his face, and a grizzled beard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “The police probably stopped looking for you long ago. You could give people a false name. You could grow a beard and shave your head.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One cloud looked like a two-humped camel, and another looked like an old man whose long, white beard nearly reached the ground. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The hijab made her stand out even more than his untrimmed beard did. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "By the time we save enough for a ticket, I'll have a long white beard," I call up to Rani as I shift uncomfortably on the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He wore little spectacles, was developing a beard that never quite sprouted, and kept his long hair in a man bun on the top of his head. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He scratches at his thick red beard, wrinkles his fat nose, and studies me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Lou unzipped the door, and a moment later a bearded man fell supine into his lap. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Their limbs were long, and their hands had many fingers; their hair was stiff, and their beards grey-green as moss. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She knew what Papa looked like—of course she did—but at that moment, she couldn’t remember whether he had trimmed his beard short or left it long when he had gone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He started to run a hand through his beard, then frowned in irritation when the bandages made this impossible. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was taller than Lee, head like a boulder, full- bearded, long-haired, always a bit sloppy, gloomy, shocked his staff by going into battle once wearing carpet slippers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashid hadn’t had the beard then, but he had always been tall and skinny and quiet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He had a classic profile, and even in the distance I could see that he wore a beard that tied into his sideburns and so found his hair. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy she married was a Hasid, with a black beard, long earlocks, and dark eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The magistrate was skinny under his coat, balding but bearded, and the skin on his face was yellowy and pockmarked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He was making a tiny bubble beard for the rubber duck. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We, the elders of the village, stood there, yanking on our beards. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Grandfather shut his eyes and tears rolled down his cheeks and disappeared into his beard. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His new head of hair seemed to console him for the loss of his beard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he was bearded, in Greek robes with a golden laurel wreath in his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had a beard and a turban and two wicker baskets. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A big-bellied man with a greasy black beard and small, mean eyes stood over them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He could no more raise a beard than I could, so he looked like a beaming boy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His bald head and bearded face did not look familiar at all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had a little pointed chin beard now, and threads of silver in his dark hair, though he was still shy of thirty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finn tried to focus but saw only a beard so thick it reminded Finn of wall-to-wall carpeting. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then he fell into a reverie, stroking his beard, breathing fire, and staring at the paper. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The little of his face that was not obscured by hair or beard was soaking and swollen; he was shaking with tears, a vast, spotted handkerchief in his hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He squinted at me, his long beard quivering as he slowed to a stop, huffing like a steam engine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I pictured guys with beards and eye patches and peg legs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The bearded head leaned forward; the eyes lost their sternness and looked wonderingly into the fire; the big lean fingers laced themselves on the black knees. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day two of them came together to audience,- the Greatjon's uncles, blustery men in the winter of their days with beards as white as the bearskin cloaks they wore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They say that I arrived covered with dust, without a hat, filthy and bearded, thirsty and furious, shouting for my bride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Same sandy hair, red beards, and blue eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Ice clung to their eyebrows and beards and eyelashes, and I’d hear them whining and groaning as they walked. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He's looking down at me with red eyes and you can see where he's been chewing at his beard. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “I think I have beard about Piets. Pictures. They were painted blue.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the man is really Stapleton, who is wearing a false beard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The beard fattened up his already plump face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You can only believe they are men and women by their beards and breasts, and the grown-up way they move to protect their children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His black beard had begun to go gray, and he seemed to have aged a great deal since I had seen him last. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z So it was to Scaithe's Ebb that Lord Primus of Stormhold came one night, all dressed in black with a beard as thick and serious as one of the storks' nests in the town's chimneys. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Men with dark skins and long beards squat around the fires, watching us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They would have held each other and kissed and she would have tickled her cheek with his new beard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The king took out the plates of delicate pink shrimp dumplings, savory noodles and pork, dragon’s beard bean sprouts, emerald green chives, and a bowl of white jade tofu soup. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The raven gave a cackling scream, but the Old Bear smiled through the grey of his beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The bearded man gets back into the driver’s seat and closes the door behind him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A few white hairs were all that separated him from baldness; his forked beard was equal parts white and grey, but always ragged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I watched as the old man tucked his beard out of the way and adjusted himself in his seat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m like that old man with the beard, Rip Van Winkle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He had a well-trimmed beard, marbled gray and black like a storm cloud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Your father?” says a bearded man behind Doctor Snow, his fingers flexing along the stock of his rifle, tho not lifting it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And were face to face with a semi-transparent guy in medieval garb with a fur-trimmed cap and a beard that looked like two raccoon tails sewn together under his nose and chin. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The walls of the hospital room seemed to be made of stone, the beard on the nurse’s or doctor’s or whoever’s face dense and shaggy as moss. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I used to think he looked like a young Santa Claus with his full black beard and mustache. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Trub shakes his head and brushes crumbs out of his beard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Maybe. But what if someone says something to him? He wears a kufi and has a long beard.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It had two tall masts and between them stood a young man with blue eyes and a black beard. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay on the grass and let the baby crawl over him, yank his beard, and put a foot in his eye without the slightest protest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He grits his teeth into a wild smile beneath his beard. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Tears glistened on his cheeks and in the winter whiteness of his beard. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z As he stirred with his stick, muttering curses into his stained white beard, he was thrown into a hysterical passion by Francie asking for a pickle from the bottom of the vat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! Did you get the guy with a beard?” she says, pointing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A bearded man of thirty years or so was brought onto the stage by Stanchion and introduced to the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A young, bearded man jumped out and said, “Follow me at a quick pace.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His face was grimy and his beard , tangled, but his expression seemed kindly. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I can live without your beard and earlocks with no trouble at all. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He sat with his hands clasped politely, his blond hair and beard in fashion with every other grown man in Kievan Rus’. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Police investigation eventually discovered a blond woman with a ponytail who regularly associated with a bearded and mustachioed black man who owned a yellow car. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The ironman who came for them was a squat thick-bodied man with a coal-black beard that covered half his chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was a devout and principled man, with a long, somber face and a full gray beard. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Just as I kept my sidelocks trimmed short and tucked behind my ears, he favored the narrow beard and generous mustache of the Stockyard bosses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My impression was that utterances were being directed accusingly, and with increasing boldness, towards the armchair where M. Dupont sat fingering his beard, saying little. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Or that bearded guy who was carrying one of those red baskets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Though they called themselves The Sons of the Prairie Pioneers” and all wore beards, they were Mr. Earl T Askew and three more of the sheriff’s deputies. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mine was horrendous too. Are you growing a beard, Dad?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When he’d first met Mr. Singh the week of his arrival, he’d been surprised to see that the jovial ice cream truck driver had a beard and turban, similar to many Afghans. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They were big men, and fierce, faces covered with thick beards, hair worn loose past the shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Well, he ain’t clean when he comes to school. He don’t grow much beard, but his hair’s so long and tangled and dirty it looks like a dern cootie stable, haw!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Goldfarb looked like a professor with his beard, his slight stoop, his tweed and corduroy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He would pick at the new reddish beard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The grey moss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearding all the towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While he chose a suit, he thought to himself: Quite astounding that she should also have a collection of false beards. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z These were days of pajamas and beard scruff, of mumblings and requests and him endlessly thanking everyone for all they were doing on his behalf. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Now that little Dallben’s gone, and found himself a beard, too, the place isn’t half as cheery as it used to be. We wouldn’t change you into a toad—unless you insisted on it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He is a hulking brute with a thick black beard. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He was a big man with a beard. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate several vivid pink slices of ham, picked a fragment of meat from his beard, dropped it onto his plate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z We were standing in the touch tank room, listening to a bearded aquarium worker speak into a microphone. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "AD this I learned from Dolf son of Holger before my beard had grown. This is the way of war in the Mountains of the Moon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When I asked Osh about it, he shrugged and talked in circles, as if I’d asked why women don’t have beards. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Granny always prided herself on keeping his wild hair and beard trimmed, his shirts clean, his pants brushed and “nice.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Just then an old man with long, sunburned hair and beard, and clothes that looked as though they were made of gunny-sacking, came striding up to the bridge. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The god leaned back and chuckled, rain pouring out of his beard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson glowered over the table, bearded and silent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Severe dark eyes, lean face, short black beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had an unkempt beard and unruly hair. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He swam swiftly toward a seven-foot-tall merman with a long green beard and a choker of shark fangs and tried to mime a request to borrow the spear. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He could smell Horse’s unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant’s overpowering musk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Images of his bearded, expressionless face have been on the front pages of newspapers for more than a year. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He was short, With a pointed beard and a silver streak in his hair, almost as old as her father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He constantly paced the deck in the nude, staring out at the horizon line and stroking his beard. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But talking to them about why he had the beard might. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His hair, still coal black except for touches of gray at his temples, was combed back, but his cheeks were sunken, and he had a thin beard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His beard, chest-length like the others, was lighter in color too. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His beard was brown with caked blood, but a trickle of red still leaked from his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He’s American,” observed a man sporting a prodigious beard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Wednesday stood there on the sidewalk for a moment, scratching his beard meditatively. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I decided that I was going to let my beard remain. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The man has a silvery beard, a crinkly forehead, and gentle eyes peeking out from beneath brows as straight as my own. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Stanchion drank off another solid swallow from his tankard and wiped his beard on his sleeve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast the northmen seemed hale and healthy, big ruddy men with beards as thick as bushes, clad in fur and iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Uncle Arthur had grown a grizzly beard and was wearing a plaid flannel work shirt with paint-splattered jeans. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I make it one block when something the bearded man said echoes in my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Whatever it was the woman wondered never got said, for just then the bearded man marched into the house, having dropped his hoe somewhere outside. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scram-bled swirling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One has a young scruffy blond beard that I would never expect to see on a doctor—his name is Dr. Kepler. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The beard was to have been his first step. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The first man Jeanne saw was thin, with long, dirty yellow hair, a patchy yellow beard, and a face like a weasel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A man with a full beard and a gruff voice. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He had grown a beard and let his hair grow long and he was thinner than ever before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Two things compounded my fears: There are a lot of bearded men in Peshawar, and everybody stares. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Very good,” Reb Saunders said, smiling and nodding his head, the black beard going back and forth against his chest, the earlocks swaying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I remember when Wendell, shortly before his high school graduation, grew a little beard on the bottom of his chin— just a few hairs that formed a goatee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He takes a sip from the Butterbeer, getting more foam on his beard. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Behind him at the helm, a burly bearded guy in a mechanic’s uniform was tinkering with the controls, furiously trying to keep the ship aloft. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A hardened face loomed over me, beard like a bear’s pelt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For all his white beard, he looked like a little boy trying not to cry. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time that she was mildly freaked out by the sight of the bearded counselor, she was also excited. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Axes cleared the debris, and two armed guards entered the room, followed by the king with the golden crown and the spear-shaped beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The bearded man took a step forward, but he still brandished his sword before him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The last time Catelyn had seen him, his hair and beard had been brown, well streaked with grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The bearded man had fled, as much as the darkness allowed her to see. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In Smilen Brothers a bearded white man bent nails with his teeth and talked about the poisons in our foods. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In the dimness the beard and his brilliant eyes were most of what she could see of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I gave him a pair of Oakley sunglasses and a four-day-old beard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Then came a second gatehouse, larger than the first, its stones bearded with green algae. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Seven winced at the mention of rat beard. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was muscular, stocky, and short, with a black beard and blazing eyes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When she opened it, the door framed a man with shoulders as wide as the door itself, wiry red hair, and a bushy red beard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke to one of the black brothers, an old man with a twisted back and a tangled beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Baba’s beard was graying, his hair thinning at the temples, and hadn’t he been taller in Kabul? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His skin was cherry red; his beard and hair the color of iron rust, braided with tufts of grass, leaves, and swamp flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “His lips are cruel, his eyes are mean, and he has a villain’s beard.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His dad finally arrives in a flurry of Secret Service agents, his beard impeccably groomed and his suit impeccably tailored. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Next to him, a huge lump of a man with a leg in a steel brace, a misshapen head, and a wild brown beard, fire flickering through his whiskers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The top of his head was shaved so close it was almost bald, but his face was covered in a thick curly black beard. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “It is possible,” Mom replied, “that you will have a beard the next time you see her.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Right now, letting his beard grow back was the right choice for Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He looked down, saw Longstreet rise, move off, shoulders bowed, wandering head down and lumbering, like a bearded stump, to stare out at the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One was gaunt, with flinty eyes, a long white beard, and a face as hard as a winter frost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Didn’t look anything like, had a big beard.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I pulled Mom’s research proposal out of my bag and opened to the page where I’d given Mom’s fisherman a beard and a can of Moxie. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Will saw blazing blue eyes in a haggard face with several days’ growth of beard on the stubborn jaw, gray-haired, drawn with pain, a thin body hunched in a heavy cloak trimmed with feathers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had already solidified into the shape of a bearded man in white robes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Yoren sat on his horse, frowning through his tangle of beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Biafra will win this war, God has written it in the sky,” said a man with a beard braided in a single thin strand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A veteran of old skirmishes, bearded, scarred across his cheek and the bone stoven and the one eye wandering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z An old lady version of him, minus the mustache and the beard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I know it sounds crazy, but he always did this twice, he said it really made your beard super-soft. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gone for a run to Mattapoisett,” the dockmaster said through his wild beard, his long pipe clenched in his brown teeth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Other people wondered if Drew had been Erin’s beard all along. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I looked away from him to see a bearded man in red, Count Threpe, an old couple holding hands, a lovely dark-eyed girl.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An old homeless man confronts me quietly with his beard, his missing teeth, and his poverty. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his spiked steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His white beard was cropped close and his white eyebrows overhung his eyes like mustaches. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t hide my mouth with a strategic haircut—unless I want to become a bearded lady. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z People were still painting on the shopwindows, but this time the painters were the bearded people, the shop owners themselves. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I thought: Men in beards and long black coats do not laugh. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Harry bellowed, fighting off Fang the boarhound’s attentions as the enormous bearded figure clambered to his feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Please move the knee,” said the bearded doctor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z This makes you think that the man is Barrymore, who is the caretaker at Baskerville Hall, because he is the only other person who has a black beard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The left side of his face was a web of scars that radiated out, leaving bald strips running through his black hair and beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “No. That wouldn’t be an accident. That’s how the world works every day. We got to the front of the line. Your mother was mumbling. The guard had a mullah’s beard.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z His uncle was portly and balding, with a close-cropped yellow beard that followed the line of his massive jaw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Woman, stop crying,” the man with the braided beard said curtly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If any man wants to raise a beard let him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “The scarf over his mouth, it never gets all hard with ice, like Hodor’s beard. Not even when he talks.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had never told anyone this, not even Anulika; she had already told him he spent too much time around women cooking, and he might never grow a beard if he kept doing that. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From the way he tugged at his beard and hemmed in his throat, I knew he had other matters on his mind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mulch reached into his beard, plucking out a sturdy hair. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It’s like the time Dad shaved off his beard, and he was Dad, but he wasn’t, and my twelve-year-old brain couldn’t handle it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He stuffs his tzitzit into his waistband, puts his curls under his flat cap and tucks his bearded chin into his coat collar. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He has a black robe, and his beard, as white as the snow all around us, hangs almost to his knees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like me, not one of them had any beard at all. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Moving forward slowly, calmly, like a black rock, grinning hungrily through the black beard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The big outlaw, his hair and beard looking bonfire red under the bright sun, gave a distant yell and altered course. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the dwarf's brutal bulging brow, the hard black eye and the shrewd green one, the crooked teeth and wiry beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He slipped a blue silk tunic over his head and straightened the prongs of his beard with his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There he was a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist known more for his wild hair and beard, which he had trimmed just once a year, than for his gifts in the laboratory. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A waterskin hung under his arm on a leather strap, and ropes of dried seaweed were braided through his waist-long black hair and untrimmed beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He adjusted his bright red cap in the mirror, ran a hand through his thick beard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When she saw her friend at the door, his white beard and his amiable, toothless smile, Mariam felt tears stinging the corners of her eyes again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He was the youngest; his beard was only a fuzz. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard was fully white, his hair puffed and frizzled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that your final ruling?” the beard says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The man’s shirt was wrinkled and stained with sweat under the arms, and Stella could see bits of the egg he must have had for breakfast in his beard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Some had long beards, some had scars, some had both; all worshiped the old gods of the north, those same gods worshiped by the free folk beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was a man with a long gray beard who my father insisted came from nowhere. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His fingers clutched at strands of his beard as if it were necessary to hold on to something. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z His gaze roams the space until it lands on a youngish, bearded black man in a dashiki shirt and kufi hat. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Hannah knew she had no Uncle Shmuel, certainly no one as big and bearded as this man, who smelled of sweat and grass and horses. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ian, blond, bearded, with a habit of tucking his chin and looking up at you from under his eyebrows, was the one who never stopped talking. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “And if it is up to Vikus, soon we will have no baskets to give,” the girl said pointedly to the bearded man who had turned his focus to Gregor and Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My brothers beard is ugly and I don’t want him anywhere around me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z At the front door of Gutshot Textiles, they were met by a large man with a beard like Santa Claus's but browner. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He had a beard, and his hair was long and dark brown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A shaggy beard covered his cheeks and neck, but the hair would not grow over the scar, so a shiny seam of puckered, twisted flesh divided his face like a crevasse through a snowfield. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What time is it, Noor?” he asked, pulling thoughtfully on his white-streaked beard. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He looked up and, out of priestly habit, smiled benignantly at Milton, his white teeth appearing in the great bush of black beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Holding his large hands up, pumping his knees high, prancing, his great red beard flapping, his two-pointed hat bobbing this way and that, the hat bells jingling, he was like one possessed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Might look ridiculous with your beard,” I reply, laughing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It was the face of the old man in her dreams, the same white beard, the glittering gray-blue eyes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall, bearded taxi driver stood weeping in the street. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The older one has a thick red beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Lots with Hudson, lots with various girls, and a whole series of a guy with a beard and shimmery unicorn eye makeup. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Grass and weeds snuck their way up through the saggy porch and all around the sides of the house, giving it the scruffy look of a week-old beard. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The only light came from a single guttering candle placed at the feet of a man with hair and beard so overgrown Harry could see neither eyes nor mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The boys sat solemnly and looked about, stared at Samuel’s beard and searched for Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He cleared his throat and rubbed his hand over his beard, finally wiping off the oatmeal. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “A born killer,” said one, smoothing his bristling red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “You can’t trust them,” says the beard, still looking down his gun. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He could even make a young dude like myself, with no beard, look like I got a little something. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Vapors of tobacco and alcohol and sweat came powerfully from him, and he was close enough for his thick beard, wagging up and down, to brush Will’s face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But the wonderful thing was that he wore a pointed beard and he looked a little like Doc. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. A’s avatar looked like a portly, bearded college professor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Cade kept his hair trimmed short, and he had a very sparse golden beard that went from his sideburns and curled almost invisibly just around the lower edge of his jaw. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Cora closed her eyes, but a vision of the boy lying in bed, his head bandaged and the big man with the beard standing over him, forestalled her slumber. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His mouth hung open, and flies were gathered in the stubble of his beard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His curly beard was green and white with lichen, and one of the prongs of his trident had broken off before Davos had been bom, yet somehow he still managed to impress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That’s why you shaved your beard? To be like everyone else?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I pulled at my beard, which is said to indicate concentration. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was old and bearded, but when he spoke or walked I felt the dignity of his many years and wisdom. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “She got a beard, your granny. She’s a goat, all right.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The beard I’d seen him wearing the other day was gone. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The old priest, kneeling, has one knee on his beard and is unable to lift his head. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor said nothing, but his lips grew thin, and his nostrils flared, and his red beard prickled. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He breathed it out in clouds and it froze in white frost on his mustache and beard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks old enough to be someone's grandfather, but maybe that's just because I see gray hairs in his brown beard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Scientists were bearded men who read heavy books and talked big words, weren’t they? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure if God is a boy or a girl or an old man with a white beard. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In my mind I saw the man in black scrubbing the sidewalk with his beard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There’s a whole crowd of Muhammad’s friends hanging out there, guys with fledgling beards and girls with poufy hijabs, supposedly gender separated but, really, getting chatty with one another. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Yet with his rolled-up plaid sleeves, gray hair, and beard, Mr. Leo seems just Leo. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I mean it! They all have beards. Why don’t you?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Dark-skinned, bearded, with broken teeth and a broken smile, if ever one erupts. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z And then Jacob says to the little boy, “Where’s your beard?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was an old man, as brown as the others, with the stubble of a white beard. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z In the chemical brightness Milton saw the patriarchal beard, the pale, waxen cheeks, and—most tellingly—the tiny five-foot-four frame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He does that: go from a luxurious, long Moses beard and authentic thowb-wearing-imam look to a gentrified-summer-tourist-imam look, depending on the occasion. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The hair that had retreated from Mormont's spotted scalp had regrouped beneath his chin in a shaggy grey beard that covered much of his chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A guy with a stubbly beard and tousled brown hair slid aside the velvet curtain and walked out, barefoot and in jeans and no shirt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Adam and Samuel came from the wash house, their hand and faces shining with water, and Samuel’s beard was fluffy after its soaping. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His beard was trimmed impeccably, the golden diadem on his head flashing with every movement. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Images appeared, including Georges Melies himself, as a young man, dressed in a fake white beard and a black cape covered with stars and moons. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “I love my love with a B,” Eleanor said in spite of herself, “because he is bearded.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He stood smiling, his eyes gentle above the roaring waterfall of his beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I was her favorite,” he said, and as he said it, a grubby schoolboy seemed to look out through Aberforth’s wrinkles and tangled beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The nails grew long on his thin fingers and a dry, bristly beard appeared on his chin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They were close to the umbrella trees that lined the driveway when Richard saw the bearded man, in a severely smart, belted army uniform, striding across the corridor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sacker with a long, greasy ponytail and skinny little beard look me over when I was checking out and made a snort in his nose. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He wore a pearl earring and had a face that needed to make a choice—either shave or grow a beard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I said, “Does your father scrub the sidewalk with his beard?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z At every Gregarious Games press conference, Morrow grinned infectiously from behind his unruly beard and wire-rimmed spectacles, using his natural gift for hype and hyperbole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It might be fun. I'd like to see you with a beard.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z My grandfather rubs a nonexistent beard on his chin. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He was wearing new jeans and a clean Western shirt and he'd even trimmed his beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Like a pair of licensed fools, we will tweak the beards of our elders.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And there was my grandfather, adding his low baritone in sad, sweet harmony to the music, his long beard glinting in the firelight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I could not shadow-box in front of the narrow long mirror at first because it looked so strange to see a man with a beard boxing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He was near a shadow himself; bone thin and bone hard, with black eyes and black hair and a stubble of beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I looked in the glass and saw myself looking like a fake doctor with a beard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I was certain I would never be able to grow a beard so luxurious as the one hewn into the wall above me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The men all roared, none louder than Chiswyck himself, who laughed so hard at his own story that snot dribbled from his nose down into his scraggy grey beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Against the wall of the gutter, a bearded man whose shirt was stained with someone else’s blood sat holding his head in his hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He’s got a neatly trimmed brown beard, which I think he hopes makes him look older, but it doesn’t hide his baby face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Merlin’s beard,” Moody whispered, staring at the map, his magical eye going haywire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The captain fiddles with his beard, then says, “She protects us from the challenges we will face before we reach our destination. The monsters toward which we sail.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “You know I kept trying to join the army when this war started,” the bearded man said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Several were grimy with soot from the fire, and one man had a large part of his beard singed away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His beard, very long and forked, was white, nearly as white as the snow-white cloth of his garments. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A man with a neck beard sits down next to the mustache guy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z All in leather and fur they were, with here and there a bit of steel or bronze,- heavy beards covered hard lean faces, and made them look as shaggy as their garrons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Long white hair fell to his shoulders, and a silky white beard covered the lower half of his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It even had a caboose, where a man with a big black beard and a guttering lantern in his hand gaped at us in surprise as the train strafed away around the next bend. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He wore a bushlike black beard and shoulder-length hair, which he kept out of his face with a headband made from a filthy nylon strap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And now the Entwives are only a memory for us, and our beards are long and grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When she looked at him, his mouth was pinched into a line behind his dirty beard. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Remembering Amy’s advice, I walked right over and gave him a big hug, wrapping my skinny arms around his compact frame and taking care to avoid the prickly whiskers in his thick beard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Suddenly my cheeks were stinging and the guard was tossing my beard up and down in his hand, giggling. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "Yes—but I'm not sure what I'd look like if I had a gray beard and my face was all wrinkly." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The play is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and all of Joseph’s brothers are wearing these fluffy fake beards. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He was bending his head over and over again to drink soup, but his beard would dip in the bowl first and stop him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She had expected the letter writer to be a guy with a wild beard and unruly hair, like those men who lived in the woods and didn’t use technology. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying there’s a bearded old geezer named Yahweh up in the clouds deciding which football team is going to win the Super Bowl,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a thin, distinguished man who wore real eyeglasses and a small, pointed beard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Primus of Stormhold, his beard freshly shaven, watched it sail from the cliff top until it was lost to view. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Stereotypes. You have to learn to think outside the box,” said the bearded man. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The other was tall, with a thick gray beard and large belly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The man driving wears a hat, a beard, and a smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He'd looked like a grown man since the seventh grade, and that was before he grew a full beard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “In my dream, I saw a man with a long beard and a mole on his cheek.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "They have no beard or body hair," Buffon sagely confided, "and no ardor for the female." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His beard and earlocks were gone, and his face looked pale. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “He’s hustling you,” said Mad Sweeney, rubbing his bristly ginger beard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I remembered the man I’d seen in my dreams, with the golden crown, the pointed beard, and the cruel eyes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Probably real tall with big crusty hands, a rough beard, a beanie on his head or one of them old-men hats with the kangaroo on the back. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z He crouched, skinny and filthy, his hair and beard overgrown and matted. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “His beard, his earlocks, his clothes, his fringes—all this he will retain in graduate school?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But Tall Andras rubbed his hand across his thick blond beard, looked across the marketplace to where Water Claire stood fingering ribbons at a stall, and said to his mates, “She could be wed.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He wore black, but his hair was combed neatly and he had shaved his beard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so,” said a wizard with a scrubby brown beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Katherine removes the head of a bearded man, shoulders heaving as she searches for any more dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z His face was shrouded in a dark hood, leaving only a hooked nose and a black, curly beard by which to identify him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The shadow of a new beard darkened his jaw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some of them had the beginnings of beards, straggly tufts of hair that stood in isolated clumps on their chins, jawbones, and upper lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z "Cleaning up the graffiti," said Mr. Khan, tugging at his beard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z "I think we lost them," he said, and smiled thinly as he patted his beard into shape. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was skeletal and weak—and what had happened to his hair and beard? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Huge live oak trees lined each side of the road, with dangling beards of Spanish moss hanging from each branch. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard—I’d have been grateful just to have someone to make out with. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Valmiki leaned back against the anthill and stroked his beard slowly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I nodded and wrapped my arms around him in a hug, breathing in his familiar scent, a mixture of the sweet, musky oil he used in his beard and laundry detergent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z His hair was a reddish-gray; his beard, little more than stubble, was grayish-red. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Before Lac could say anything, the back door of the one of the buildings swung open, and out stepped a man with an overgrown red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His beard was like a forest of ice-covered trees in midwinter, his eyebrows like a field of thistles, his breath as rank and foul as a midden in a bog. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Like you, eh, Frank? Not really a talker,” the bearded man said. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Not the nurses with beards of the field hospital. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z One of them said—a tall one with a long black beard— “It moves independent of the tree.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way to la marketa we had passed two men dressed in long black coats, their faces bearded. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z While they idled at a red light, a sad man with a dirty beard and a cup limped to the driver’s side. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z How could there be new life in his beard when it was draining everywhere else? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet here he was, with a scruff of beard that made him look almost a man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hagrid allowed himself to be steered into a chair and slumped over the table, sobbing uncontrollably, his face glazed with tears that dripped down into his tangled beard. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Nor you me, you squat, filthy bore! Your outfit is ridiculous and your beard is filled with twigs.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His brother, the late King Robert, had grown a beard in his final years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The stone lions that flanked either side of the gates were wearing wigs and beards of snow, and they grinned as the horse passed through. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z One night, surveying the bearded, shaggy castaways around him, Shackleton ordered haircuts for all. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z "You've got a bit of a beard, for one thing. And, from the smell of your breath, I'd say a bit of beer as well." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A bearded man in a dark suit stands stiffly behind a thin woman seated in a straight-backed chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The mummy’s left wing was shattered, and it would never fly again, but its bearded face was implacable. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Loki irritated the goat even more by tying a strong rope tightly around its beard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z During the night he slept among the boats on the river, and early in the morning, before the first customers arrived in the shop, he had his beard shaved off by the barber’s assistant. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the walls, the women outnumbered the men by five to one; what few males he did see had long grey beards or looked too young to shave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They would wake in the morning to see that the rime had frosted their beards, and, until the sun warmed them, they looked like old men, white-bearded before their time. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He saw a round face, bearded, mouth open, flat on his back on a rock ledge, hands folded on his chest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers reported that there were wild, bearded men parading the streets in Austin, dressed in long robes and carrying big signs that read repent, the end is nigh. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Helena comes in to return the rinsed-out bucket, and Max bends down automatically, letting her ruffle his long hair and then scratch all through his beard and he makes noises like a well-petted dog. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Lithe and young she made him, ruddy with sun, his jawline clean, the beard no longer grew upon his chin. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His coarse beard was entwined with gray and his belly had grown large, but he was the same garrulous fellow who’d taken in her and Caesar those long months past. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z But three summers ago, he turned eighteen, moved in with Madrina, and started acting funny around us—with an almost full beard, and a much deeper voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Charles now had a long white beard, which he had started growing in 1863 because eczema made it uncomfortable for him to shave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Weirdly, the one in the lead reminded Piper of her dad when he’d grown a beard for his role in King of Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Their hair and beards and faces marked most for men of the Free Cities, but here and there were a few who might have been Westerosi. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His face is cut and bruised, deep reddish-brown bruises; the flesh is swollen and knobby, stubbled with unshaven beard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Down one way, a man was puffing a pipe under a tent, and curls of sweet-smelling smoke rose from the gnarled twigs of his beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They slipped out from behind the bins and followed the man with the red beard to the mouth of the alley, where he was joined by another man. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He lifted a hand then, ignoring their exclamations, and began to smooth the thin hairs of his beard. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A sickly yellow vapor rose from his ears, his beard, his blind eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She looked at his bare hairy chest and his new beard and his torn slippers, and suddenly his mortality—their mortality—struck her with a clutch at her throat, a squeeze of alarm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He sucked at the raw meat and tried to spit out the leg bone, but it only dribbled over his lower lip and tangled in his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Shagga tossed a handful of hair down to the rushes, and seized what beard was left. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was thin and drawn, with tufts of beard growing on it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The cook smiled through his beard and sat up straighten “Shank’s got more guts than I’ve fried up from every pig and cow in the last year.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The teacher, who has a white beard and holds his balloon belly when he talks, is by the door with a student. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His close- cropped beard lay like a shadow over his hollow cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And once, during a supper meal, I saw tears come slowly from his eyes and disappear into the tangle of the dark beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His hair and his beard have grown out since he moved back home. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z You couldn’t say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya had a hard time telling the eldest twins apart now that they had grown identical beards. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Hubbard raked his laces across Alfred's rope burns, and stepped on his toes, and rubbed his jaw against Alfred's, the stubble of his beard like sandpaper on Alfred's skin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon comes in, scoops Sarah up, gives her a kiss, tickles her face with his beard, carries her squealing off into the living room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry’s eyes wandered past him to where Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, sat watching the Sorting from the staff table, his long silver beard and half-moon glasses shining brightly in the candlelight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Since some of the other students chose to grow beards and mustaches, his own beard was sometimes interpreted as a personal choice instead of a mandate of faith. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A horseman with silver scales afire in the sun shouted from the scroll in his hands, his words opening a red gap in his black beard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dr. van Heerden’s work went badly, his beard fluffed out like Fat Cheeks’s mane. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the way home, they hum the songs and talk about Taylor’s amazing voice and ask me if I’m friends with the hilarious kid with the beard. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “About” he returned with something like a sneer, plus another scratch of his beard. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Am I going to be attacked in my own home before a stranger with a false beard?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not a beef cruncher or a bearded lady from a Greek circus, as had been said, but the director of a school of voice. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Near the center of town was an old clapboard house with a painted wooden cutout of a bearded hiker standing on the lawn bearing the message “Welcome at Shaw’s.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He took in the face of a man with high cheekbones like his, a full beard, round eyes that—had they not been empty—would have reminded him of Kamau’s. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A practiced barber, no doubt; her order often cleaned the corpses of the noble slain before returning them to their kin, and trimming beards and cutting hair was part of that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A man in a long beard was one of the first to react. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They came together and locked hands, her husband half a foot taller than his visitor, bearded and heavy through the shoulders and chest and wearing a sweat-stained T-shirt. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I look up the block and see a tall man with a bushy gray beard and furry gray eyebrows coming our way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “So you were going to try to make him really see you—kind of like me shaving my beard.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Ron’s hair was now long and wavy; he had a thick brown beard and mustache, no freckles, a short, broad nose, and heavy eyebrows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Maybe he even thought, wondered if perhaps that was not why the beard, if maybe the other had not hidden behind that beard against this very day, and if so, why? why? thinking But why? Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode on, staring straight in front of him, munching his beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Covering his chin, there was a small neat pointed black beard—a goatee. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Bruce was a large man with a bald head that shone in the dull light, his face pale and scruffy with a few days’ worth of beard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The old man stroked his beard, and it shone very white in the starlight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They seep down his cheeks into his beard. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaunt, intense, and excitable, with Rasputin’s piercing eyes and a beard that rivaled Darwin's, de Vries already looked like a younger version of his idol. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The man with the beard, who I saw rocking in the dining room when I first came in, is pacing the central hall, staring at me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He has a graying beard and hair tied back in a long ponytail. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Harry leaned forward to see Hagrid, who was ruby-red in the face and staring down at his enormous hands, his wide grin hidden in the tangle of his black beard. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t like this dream, I’m cold, and that’s a fake beard. Who wears a fake beard in a dream? Why do you sound like you’re talking underwater? What did you give me?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was standing in front of the mirror in his office, snipping away at his beard with a tiny pair of scissors. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been hacked and cut so badly that his beard looked a reddish-brown now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And now do you want me to stop growing my beard or let it go on? “Go on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He’d trimmed his curly brown hair and beard for the summer, and his lower half, which was a white stallion, was flecked with mud and grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The domovoi tugged on his long beard with one hand, and with the other he pointed a stiff finger at Anya as he bared his teeth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There was a bearded man in a pointed cap seated at a table. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d believe her about the dungeons and the fat man with the forked beard and the wizard in the steel cap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I follow Ms. Albright to the dressing room, where Martin is flopped all over a plastic chair, winding the end of his beard around his finger. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He grabbed the back of the boat with numb fingers, then hauled himself onboard, dripping with seawater, ice crusting his red beard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And the mustaches and the beards look suspicious to me. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z People say the rebel leader sleeps in his uniform and olive cap, that his hair and beard are one, like a bear’s, and his eyes are just as fearless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Peering through the hole, I could see several bearded men wearing fatigues. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Lord Rickard Karstark, gaunt and hollow-eyed in his grief, took his seat like a man in a nightmare, his long beard uncombed and unwashed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They took off their beards and hurried to the exit. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The man with the red beard looked over his shoulder and pulled the collar of his jacket higher around his neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z So thick was his beard, and so crusted with ice, that for a moment Asha did not know him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When he walked into the Annandale house, he had a scruffy beard, his hair was long and tangled, and he’d shed thirty pounds from his already lean frame. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His head was bowed on the white beard and his hands clasped between his knees. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Slopes rose precipitously from the water’s edge, bearded in a gloom of hemlock and cedar and devil’s club. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z M. Dupont was a tall, elegant gentleman with a grey beard and a monocle. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There are two ways to stroke one’s beard. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When she looked out, her eyes blurred from her migraine, she did not recognize him because he had shaved his beard and was wearing spectacles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been following someone, wearing a full black beard and a rather horrendous pair of glasses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He peeks his bearded, bespectacled head out and adds, “And because the world would fall apart without you, my radiant orchid.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then Robin heard the big fellow say, “By my beard, the birds have flown!” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She did not recognize him because of his beard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Moss looked at the cameraman and was jealous of how thick his beard was. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His daughter, Sumaiya, crawls into his lap as soon as he sits down and plays with his beard. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z At the end of the song, he rubbed his beard and said that he was impressed with my dancing and found the singing “interesting.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z His beard is all matted because he ain’t combed it in months, and it makes him look old and scruffy. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Two soldiers were standing in front of another bearded man in black. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Not content with that assault, she pulled his beard and tweaked his cheek. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He had lost his hat and his hair and beard were tangled up, as if by a hurricane. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I haven’t gotten used to seeing him with a proper beard, although there are patches on the sides of his mouth where it hasn’t grown in fully. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The eunuch's plump cheeks were covered with a dark stubble of beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally, the bearded piano dude finished his melody with wobbly, dying chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He had been imprisoned in a lightless garret room for far too long: his beard was wild and his hair was a tangle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Gendry looked fierce when he scowled^ His beard had grown in thick and black as briar. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Our town would not have fallen but for the saboteurs in our midst!” the man with the braided beard said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Winston Lacks was a burly man with a beard that grew to his belly—he drank almost every night in a saloon hidden in the basement beneath the general store. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Your friend, too,” the old man said, putting his periscope down on a table and smiling warmly through his white beard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His own beard was as grey as the winter sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry could see him sweating in the torchlight, his white skin contrasting strongly with the black of his hair and beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His eyes were grey and greedy, his teeth yellow, his forked beard a tangle of snow and silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You lied about her beard. That one has more hair on her chin than I have between my legs. And the daughter... her face ...” “Greyscale.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z |
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