Whiskers

Examples

• Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A tall man--a confoundedly tall man--with black whiskers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He beamed on her from the drawing-room door--magnificent, with ambrosial whiskers, like a god. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I will, though I have no whiskers,' here he rubbed the places where they were due, 'and no manners, and no conversation! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Espouse the red whiskers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He has the faded appearance of a gentleman in embarrassed circumstances; even his light whiskers droop with something of a shabby air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His whiskers had made an impression upon her, on the very first night she beheld them at the ball at Messrs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My name is Smangle, sir,' said the man with the whiskers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Off with him to Siberia, red whiskers and all; I say, I don't like him, Polly, and I wonder that you should. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He has thick curling brown hair and black eyebrows now, and his whiskers are of the deepest purple. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She loathed the man with whiskers round his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Vito