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He was clean shaven, only a few small whiskers roughened his otherwise smooth chin.
There were wide variations, from the braided lovelocks of French soldiers of the Revolutionary era to the bushy whiskers of Victorian officers.
I turned into a tiger and roared, feeling the sinews under my skin tighten, and my adopted whiskers bristle.
One is made from brown needlecord, with wool felt ears and some chenille yarn for whiskers and a tail.
Born in 1822, Francis Dillon Bell was a slightly chubby man with thick side whiskers who, by all accounts, was a complete paradox.
As we walked large white sand crabs scuttled away to their holes, whiskers waving.
He long ago ditched the specs, shaved off his whiskers and now has a rather kindly avuncular air.
The beast's whiskers touched the front of the tub and its tail curled up in back.
The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
I leaned through the window and kissed his cheek, feeling the familiar scratchiness of his whiskers.
The cat obediently came and sat at her feet, his whiskers brushing her throat.
They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers.
Padded feet, keen night vision and sensitive whiskers enable silent movement through dense undergrowth at night.
As soon as the whiskers pass over food, the protrusible mouth drops down with an elevator-like motion and rapidly sucks in its meal.
The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white.
Traders sell tiger products such as skin, teeth, claws and whiskers, mostly as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicines.
Smooth-coated otters are agile in the water and on land and use their sensitive whiskers to detect water disturbances.
Eyeballs, whiskers, blood and even tiger nose are among the parts used for their perceived curative properties.
The bearded pig is distinguished by its elongated head, narrow body, and abundant chin whiskers.
They are able to sense very minute vibrations in the ground, and feel their way through total darkness with their paws and whiskers.
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Finally, the cat sat in the middle of the street washing himself, lifting first one paw and then the other to clean his ears and whiskers.
He licked the glisten from her fur and nuzzled among the sensitive whiskers around her snout.
The prison governor's side whiskers, cross eyes, and murderous expression reminded me of the turnkeys so aptly described by Melshin.
For whiskers, thread a short length of plastic cording on a plastic needle and knot one end.
Questing and plashing, whiskers twitching, he searches vole-like for paths through the confusing cyberswamp.
Although he was clean-shaven, Jason had some industrial-strength steel wool whiskers.
He was a stout older Scot by the name of Ian, with whiskers of a beard, and a rough voice, but had a kind heart.
She so looked forward to his hugs, his smell and the scratch of his whiskers against her cheek.
The defendant wore Burnside whiskers of tolerable length, say two or three inches long, of light sandy color.
While Peter's normal hairstyle wasn't changed in any way, he was given whiskers and a moustache.
The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton-chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
Thick, bristly, black whiskers that covered the lower half of his face told the two shipmates that he hadn't shaved in a long while.
Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
The particles may be carbon fibers, carbon black, carbon whiskers, coated hollow microspheres, or a combination thereof.
Like his uncle Henry M Olmsted, he also wore whiskers in the Burnside style, but he started out as a young man with a down turned mustache.
One man is rather grey and grizzled, with whiskers poking quite a way out of his brow.
A realistic hologram of a rag-clad senior with a white ponytail and long alabaster whiskers examined about the room with a confused countenance.
The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel.
Tall, handsome, unscrupulous, with splendid curling black cavalry whiskers, Flashman is also a compulsive womaniser.
I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements.
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The entire area under the tree was soaked and the dog was muddy from the whiskers on his cheeks to the bottom of his short tail.
The two foxes met broadside, spiralling inwards anticlockwise to touch whiskers before gliding apart in opposite directions.
There is scant joy to be derived from a joke that has grown whiskers.
Another notable mode of sensation in cats are whiskers, or vibrissae.
Both the bobcat and lynx have sideburn cheek whiskers and beards.
Tiger whiskers, eyes, brains, tails, and bones, in particular, are used in traditional remedies believed to cure ailments ranging from toothache to epilepsy.
Long-tailed weasels have a small, narrow head with long whiskers.
A wiry old man appeared, a bit shorter than average height, sporting a button-collar and sleeves over small pot-belly and mutton-chop whiskers from the decades past.
His red eyebrows and sandy whiskers suggest a Scot or Irish background, which carries some particular negative associations for a 19th-century audience.
If we closed our eyes, we could almost see men with mutton-chop whiskers and stem expressions, and women with cinched waists and skirts with floor-sweeping trains.
He wore a checkered cloak over a sweater or two and heavy trousers, sported a full dark moustache and whiskers, he seemed a pensive type, sallow-faced and quiet.
Abraham Lincoln grew his whiskers in the months between his election and inauguration, making full beards ubiquitous during the Civil War that dominated his presidency.
This business of being a multiculturalist has whiskers on it already.
Some renegades, however, are out of the closet and proudly displaying fake whiskers and five-o'clock shadow, along with suits, boots and suspenders.
After a few years of stubble, the lumberjack whiskers returned, now dyed black.
He was bareheaded with whiskers proudly displayed, bright eyes prominent in grey-brown fur and large flat ears twitching with a life of their own.
The steering handles jerked out of his grips, and he went into a sharp turn, then did a barrel roll, the laser whiskers flickering to life without any action on his part.
Then he pointed to my sunken cheeks where a couple gray whiskers poked through.
Finally, when you trim those unwanted whiskers, remember to take it easy with the trimmer and read the instructions before doing something that could be potentially dangerous.
There was Coco the other day, on Page Six, his familiar red coiffure now underlined by some bright, red whiskers.
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On September 20, 1953, George Jonas, caretaker of the Yorkshire Museum, saw an old man wearing a frock coat and sporting white side whiskers reading a book in the library.
I bet if we dug down, we'd find that a lot of those old guys with their funny side whiskers knew what they were doing better than we give them credit for.
I sat beside John Bolton whose nietzschean whiskers bristled at the turn history had taken.
It had sleek fur, and whiskers that stretched away from the face.
In fact, traditional Chinese medicine outlines the uses for each component of a tiger, down to its nose leather and whiskers.
The predominance of bouffant silver hair and whiskers was most impressive.
He didn't have his whiskers, but just a few as a rogue unshaved beard.
The story goes that while Sam was working at McVeigh's, an artist visitor was so taken by his bushie whiskers and bowyangs that he asked him if he could take a snap.
Rather, they find food via the sensitive touch of their 600 to 700 vibrissae, or whiskers, which have been likened to multifingered hands on the animals' snouts.
I have very tough whiskers which are also prone to ingrowth.
The lower and upper whiskers extend to the most extreme data point within 1.5 times the interquartile range of the first and third quartiles, respectively.
Billions of tiny whiskers create a thin cushion of air above the cotton fabric, smoothing out wrinkles and allowing liquids to bead up and roll off without a trace.
In the mirror above his bed, a long, reptilian face with a set of branching antlers and short, scruffy whiskers cackled demonically, eyes glowing like twin red suns.
The whiskers are made by little bulblike structures in the skin, called hair follicles.
The other part of its Linnaean name means bearded and refers to its most characteristic feature, the conspicuous and very abundant whiskers.
And if the approving glances three-legged Jacob gave it are anything to go by, it could prove the cat's whiskers for moggies needing a new start.
He wore a domino, but beneath it could be seen his whiskers, cut after the English fashion, and long and pendent.
Riding Misanthropy was test of manhood enough for Tim. What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers?
The superciliary whiskers above the eyes and the genal whiskers on the cheeks are less rigid and distinctly less mobile than the mystacials.
Its whiskers, called vibrissae, lie in horizontal rows on either side of its snout.
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To judge from the photos Gerald's hippy phase had reached its counter-cultural extreme in a pair of mutton-chop whiskers and a floral tie.
Add sliced yellow gumdrop circles with google eyes and red heart noses with string liquorice whiskers.
Some examples of fillers are clays, silicates, cellulose microfibrils, cellulose whiskers, and carbon nanotubes.
Locals dress up in the form of satirical wire mesh masks, eyes, whiskers and painted white complexion.
Popular sources, nevertheless, continue to attribute whiskers to Thrinaxodon.
Curious or hunting cats will have slightly forward, quivering whiskers, while nervous or anxious cats will pin their whiskers flat against their face.
He learns how elephants communicate using signals sent through the sand, and how harbour seals can track things underwater using just their whiskers.
Gasphase surface esterification of cellulose microfibrils and whiskers.
For now the boys grew whiskers and hung fox pelts from their shoulders and the girlen all wore scarlet skirts and braided ribbons through their hair.
Their whiskers serve as feelers in the soft bottom sediments.
Examples from Classical Literature
His bilobed snout extends far beyond his mouth, and is well furnished with whiskers.
The whiskers of a roturier, my good Lankin, grow as long as the beard of a Plantagenet.
By its dull reflection, the black rat could just distinguish his own whiskers.
He stood upwards of six feet in his boots, had a splendid head of curling black hair, and a mustachio and whiskers to match.
The conductor demanded a ticket from a baldheaded old man whose face was mostly hidden in a great mass of white whiskers.
His tail was lashing to and fro, and his whiskers were wiggling up and down.
She saw something beneath the rags and Scotch terrier whiskers that she did not understand.
Applehead's sunburnt mustache bristled like the whiskers of compadre when he was snarling defiance at the little black dog.
He pulled his shooting iron and trimmed the whiskers of one of 'em with a chunk of lead.
You can't see his face for his whiskers, and can't see his whiskers for the dye upon 'em.
His mustache was taught to mingle with his side whiskers, in the Russian fashion.
With only whiskers nobody could take Monsieur for anything but an Englishman.
He was an elderly man with white hair and whiskers, together with what I thought were objectionably brusque manners.
A broad-shouldered man with side whiskers, who was writing at a desk, looked up as they entered.
In his private sanctum Capperton with skillful fingers fixed a moustache and side whiskers to his lean and mobile face.
He had a hard, handsome face, with cleanly cut features, and side whiskers which were perhaps too long and flowing.
The mouth was in contrast to the upper lip, but its expansion was lost in the sandy stubble of the side whiskers.
In the Lincoln iconology, his pictures before and after the whiskers is a distinction.
He was thunderstruck, and as it were deprived of the moral support of his whiskers.
The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
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The hair in the men was allowed to flow to the shoulders or gathered in a love knot, while the whiskers and beard formed a point.
The veritable Pobble who went to fish for his Aunt Jobiska's runcible cat with crimson whiskers.
His head was a fuddle of bushy hair and whiskers, from which his eyes peered with a guilty slant.
A little brown rabbit skipped around a bunch of catclaw and sat twitching his whiskers and looking humorously at Givens.
Bill black, the cere or membrane at its base black, accompanied by whitish whiskers.
His whiskers were an untamed sorrel bristling and across his cheekbone was the ugly scar of a half healed wound.
His mutton-chop whiskers came just so far, and the h's dropped in and out of his utterings in a perfectly natural way.
He had light hair, with largish whiskers, and he shaved his chin in harbour.
He began to make his toilet, first licking his right-hand whiskers and then his left.
His face above his straggly whiskers was red with temper and with liquor.
He rubbed his chin, which was stubbled with almost invisible whiskers.
Old Marrow-Bone even had a bit of sparse and straggly white beard that seemed identical with the whiskers of the old man.
The moon, a splotched wedge hung over the water, lit whiskers of clouds curled against it.
They looked with disgust at the whiskers and well-furnished chins of the white men, and in derision called them Long-beards.
What with mustachios and whiskers, there was none of the rest of his face to be seen.
Current mitigation methods are based on unfilled polymer coatings that are not impenetrable to tin whiskers.
I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
One sees many women on the continent with quite conspicuous mustaches, but this was the only woman I saw who had reached the dignity of whiskers.
He had on blue goggles and the naturalest-looking long brown whiskers and mustashes you ever see.
But now forget all about blinds and whiskers for a moment, and, standing in the Right Whale's mouth, look around you afresh.
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Seventy breezy miles a day were written in his very whiskers.
He was the dead image of the sun in old woodcuts, his hair and whiskers answering for rays all around him.
A burly man with bushy whiskers was waiting for us at the door.
His whiskers were large, bushy, and meeting beneath his chin.
Who's the nervy party with the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?
And besides, he would get his whiskers all chock-full of honey.
One of these fellows was about seventy or upwards, and had a bald head and very gray whiskers.
He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber.
His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being.
His eyes looked malignantly at me, and his gray whiskers bristled like those of an angry cat.
The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it.
Mr. Glidden stroked his whiskers and drew up the collar of his shirt.
He had a stern, square face, with bushy side whiskers and a very questioning eye.
The cook, a neat man with fair side whiskers, who had been only three years in the ship, seemed the least concerned.
At the first easy shaving-shop I passed, I had my hair cropped and my whiskers taken off.
The dignified person next him, with short side whiskers and a carefully scraped chin, was, of course, Hamilton.
Add side whiskers to Stephen Murray-Smith and he could have easily played the lead part in a play on the life of Barry.
Some are young, like prime Elvis with genuine dark locks and side whiskers.
Shelby thought he must have been born with spectacles and whiskers.
Captain Nat turned his gaze upon the side whiskers and the waistcoat.
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One of the men was elderly, with white hair and side whiskers.
Is he tall and slender, with side whiskers, and does he wear eyeglasses?
Wish I had a set of false whiskers to wear during my sojourn.
Look here, Mr. Sperry, how much is this bill with the whiskers?
They encouraged the struggling hero with cries, and jeered the villain, hooting and calling attention to his whiskers.
It was nicknack's whiskers that had tickled Jan on the back of her neck.
Didn't the breeches and goggles and whiskers and hand-bag and every blessed thing turn to ghost-stuff?
Maybe it's 'cause I don't like the way he wears his whiskers.
Here, Tommy, will you have your pandour with whiskers or without?
I watched him coming with a smile which, as he got into point-blank range, took effect and froze his very whiskers.
It has beautiful well-defined features with recessed eyes and incised whiskers.
Thou canst not even skin him properly, little beggar brat, and forsooth I, Buldeo, must be told not to singe his whiskers.
Taid, she would say, showing us a photo of him at work wearing side whiskers and leather apron, worked from six in the morning till six at night.
This Gump resembled an Elk's head, only the nose turned upward in a saucy manner and there were whiskers upon its chin, like those of a billy-goat.
As every one knows, these same hogs' bristles, fins, whiskers, blinds, or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and other stiffening contrivances.
And out of the snow flurries they saw appear a tall, gaunt form, with whiskers of flying white that blended with the storm, bending under a sixty-pound pack of camp dunnage.
March had one of his vague visions of ladies in cloudy crinolines and gentlemen in outlandish hats and whiskers revisiting that lost garden like ghosts.
The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country.
I caught a handful of whiskers and pulled, shouting something.
It was long, whitish, and blotched with pimples, the nose flattened, and the lower jaw projecting, with a bristle of coarse whiskers round the chin.
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Would she have him fire off real guns, and have his hair cut, and his whiskers shaved, and his eyes turned right and left, and his trousers pipeclayed?
With each passing week more tone-free whiskers sprout colourlessly from the epidermis of my face and I look ever more 'distinguished', they tell me.
A tall, handsome man, with superb whiskers, wearing a velvet morning coat and a brilliant watch chain, approached Miss Miller, looking sharply at her companion.
Lead was a great mitigator of whiskers and its removal from electronic solder opened the door for increased whisker proliferation, perhaps with sometimes deadly consequences.
It's a cafe or inn and there is indeed a lady swooning watched over by a fierce looking military man with big side whiskers and a dramatic, red-lined great coat.
Apart from the stylish side whiskers and clay pipes, the period headgear and that primitive crutch, they might be there at Headley Court with Dave Watson.
That naked thing running to and fro makes a monkey-jest of those who have once been good hunters, and pulls the best of us by the whiskers for sport.
He had a military carriage, however, and regulation side whiskers.
Milady for some time examined with increasing terror that pale face, framed with black hair and whiskers, the only expression of which was icy impassibility.
The night came upon him and buried in haste his whiskers, his glob ular eyes, his puffy pale face, his fat knees and the vast flat slippers on his fatherly feet.
