white-whiskered

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But news travels fast in India, and too soon shuffled across the crop-land, bearing a basket of fruits with a box of Kabul grapes and gilt oranges, a white-whiskered servitor -- a lean, dry Oorya -- begging them to bring the honour of their presence to his mistress, distressed in her mind that the lama had neglected her so long.

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  • The five white-whiskered colobus monkeys are from the Central Park Zoo in New York City. —  pjstar.com Home RSS
  • I took counsel with his senior native officer -- a grand, white-whiskered old chap -- Rutton Singh, from Jullunder-way. —  Stalky & Co.
  • "Not long after that I met a lean, white-whiskered man named Legality. —  Adventures in the Land of Canaan
  • The white-whiskered one turned suddenly to H.O. and pulled him out of the hedge. —  The Wouldbegoods
  • 'Won't you sit down?' very kindly to the white-whiskered magistrate. —  The Wouldbegoods
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