long-whiskered

• “The long-whiskered owlet, one of the world's small ...”

  Archive 2009-09-01

• “The two little girls look a lot like their mother — and long-haired, long-whiskered — and have the same sweet temperament, too.”

  Waldo Jaquith - Foster family of kittens.

• “Hampton, and the elder Botsey, and Lord Rufford, and, above all, a dark-visaged, long-whiskered, sombre, military man who had been in the carriage with Lord Rufford, and who had hardly spoken a word to any one the whole day.”

  The American Senator

• “He had obviously not expected so rapid and insulting a termination to his conversation with this long-whiskered ragamuffin.”

  Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories

• “Kushmouth waddled over to his clan-mate, his long-whiskered, flattened face alight with the pleasure to be gained from observing the final damnation of others.”

  Kingdoms of Light

• “Most of the long-whiskered crustaceans were still alive when they were dropped squeaking into the boiling pots.”

  Warlock

• “Blunt-muzzled and long-whiskered, the face sported a natural blue-gray mask around luminous emerald-hued eyes.”

  The Game Of Empire

• “I reached his hotel, and had to wade through a host of long-whiskered, long-piped gentlemen, who were smoking with all their might and main, and spitting in all directions.”

  A Sailor of King George

• “Three were British officers going to the Upsalquitch, men of the long-whiskered, Dundreary type, who soon let us know with many haw-haws that they had fished in Norway, and had killed salmon on the estate of my Lord Knowswho in Scotland, while guests of that nobleman.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873

• “You don't suppose those long-whiskered old patriarchs openly took the bribe in hand and right before the claimants, tucked the loose shekels into the wide phalacteries of holy skirts -- do you?”

  The Freebooters of the Wilderness

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