haffets

Age is so frequently dotage, that when a veteran appears who preserves the heart of a boy and the happy audacity of youth, under the 'lyart haffets wearing thin and bare' of aged manhood, it seems as if there is something supernatural about it, and all men feel the fascination and the charm.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

Commend to me on all occasions the man or woman who, "with lyart haffets thin and bare," can sing with the poet --

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

His lyart [34] haffets [35] wearing thin an 'bare;

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

His lyart [324-46] haffets [324-47] wearing thin an 'bare:

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Age is so frequently dotage, that when a veteran appears who preserves the heart of a boy and the happy audacity of youth, under the 'lyart haffets wearing thin and bare' of aged manhood, it seems as if there is something supernatural about it, and all men feel the fascination and the charm.

The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

His lyart haffets wearing thin an 'bare; [gray hair on temples]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

It was a sight to see those thin grey haffets making a soft pillow of that jutting knee of gnarled and knotty oak, and with his well-worn quarterstaff held close in a hand all wrinkled skin and scraggy bone.

Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

He was a straught, tall, old man, with a shining bell-pow, and reverend white locks hanging down about his haffets; a Roman nose, and two cheeks blooming through the winter of his long age like roses, when, poor body, he was sand-blind with infirmity.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

He was a straught, tall, old man, with a shining bellpow, and reverend white locks hanging down about his haffets; a Roman nose, and two cheeks blooming through the winter of his long age like roses, when, poor body, he was sand-blind with infirmity.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

There was something genty and delicate - like about him, having a pale sharp face, blue eyes, a nose like a hawk's, and long yellow hair hanging about his haffets, as if barbers were unco scarce cattle among the howes of the Lammermoor hills.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824