grey-beard

Rather than a brainiac grey-beard, we should think of him as his contemporaries knew him: a bustling, energetic, wine-swilling, man-loving, vigorous, pug-nosed, sword-bearing war-veteran: a citizen of the world, a man of the streets.

Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010

This "grey-beard loon" tells him a long story about a voyage he once took that became cursed after he shot the albatross, the crew's good luck totem.

Ten of the most vivid accounts of being marooned in literature 2010

To sweeter than the honeycomb of what was briny sea: And did she deign her favours grant to grey-beard staff-enpropped

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The same Eastern “Scrogin” would ask his guests if they had ever seen a man-cannon (Adami-top); and, on their replying in the negative, a grey-beard slave was dragged in blaspheming and struggling with all his strength.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

That hand shall grasp what grey-beard Law denies me.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.

Household Tales 2003

Sean carried his bag for him and the doctor, a grey-beard and unused to such hardships, trotted to keep up with Sean.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

The great man had no sooner appeared (noiselessly in the doorway, the inscrutable grey-beard) than she kissed her friend and bade her go with her women to the appointed quarters of the Nonesi.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

At this point a grey-beard interrupted the young ruler, and a spirited conversation took place between them, after which the youth asked, --

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

Then another grey-beard, wishing to share the credit for a wise idea, arose and insisted that it would be ill in us to keep the strange white animal, which one of the men found upon the plateau.

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass