gray-beard

Beyond Dane County, where gray-beard professors and union heavies roost, Republicans, he tells me, are winning the battle for Wisconsin.

Scott Walker Claims Victory in the Battle of Wisconsin Robert Costa 2011

A gray-beard of the liberal establishment, Richard Cohen, wrote today in the Washington Post that the most apt comparison to President Obama is President Jimmy Carter.

Gray-beard Liberal compares Obama to Carter, while Sen. Feingold Predicts No Health Care Bill by Christmas - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009

She looked at Rashid al-Din and finding him as we have said, replied, I will not be sold to a gray-beard, whom decrepitude hath brought to such evil plight.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Our gray-beard—he did have one—was Alan Otten, who would return to his column at the Wall Street Journal.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

Our gray-beard—he did have one—was Alan Otten, who would return to his column at the Wall Street Journal.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

Our gray-beard—he did have one—was Alan Otten, who would return to his column at the Wall Street Journal.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

There is no doubt which of the two plots Mr. Hytner features, for he has cast two great actors, Zoë Wanamaker as a mature, nose-always-in-a-book Beatrice, and Simon Russell Beale as a gray-beard, equally bookish Benedick.

Playing for Holiday Laughs 2007

He peered past the gray-beard to inspect the oldster's beast of burden.

Snakes Eyes Foster, Alan Dean 1978

Hard-by was a temporary shed, filled to the roof with hides and casks of palm-oil, all of which, the gray-beard declared was my property.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Even the female sex, those arch innovators upon the tranquillity, the honesty, and gray-beard customs of society, seemed for a while to conduct themselves with incredible sobriety and comeliness.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester