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  • Carl's focus locked on the blackbearded, gangstergrim face of the chief: It was Allinl The thornwing had. carried Carl to Allin -- by its own design or the eld skyle's, Carl had no time to guess.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • He stepped forward where Carl could see him: a bleak man in wolf and snakeskins, his youthful blackbearded face already sharp and hard as a flintedge.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • Republic, Edward Benes, winning friends on all sides by his frank sincerity and ready smile; or, perfect contrast, the blackbearded

    Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924

  • A tall blackbearded figure, bent on a stick, stumping round the corner of Elvery's Elephant house, showed them a curved hand open on his spine.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • _ (Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory.) _

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • One of his supporters is a blackbearded, thickset, slow, middle-aged man with an air of damaged respectability, named -- as it afterwards appears -- Johnson.

    Captain Brassbound's Conversion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The apparent leader of the Manitou roughs was a blackbearded man of middle height, who spoke raucously to the crowd behind him.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The apparent leader of the Manitou roughs was a blackbearded man of middle height, who spoke raucously to the crowd behind him.

    The World for Sale, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The apparent leader of the Manitou roughs was a blackbearded man of middle height, who spoke raucously to the crowd behind him.

    The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • A blackbearded man stumbled up to the brethren, his tongue protruding from his lips, and they knew him for the Master of the Templars.

    The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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