greybeard

How To Use greybeard In A Sentence

• 'Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon' Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast
• Then ships bearing news might reach Alexandria by the dozen -- that is, the greybeard added with a defiant glance at the daintily clad city gentleman -- if they were allowed to pass the Pharos or go through the Poseidon basin into the Eunostus. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
• Our plentiful though homely meal was soon discussed, for hunger, like a good conscience, can laugh at luxury; and the "greybeard" made its appearance, with the usual accompaniments of hot water and maple sugar, which Judy had scraped from the cake, and placed in a saucer on the table before us. Roughing It in the Bush
• Around me here the greybearded moss showed silver, streaked with the blue of dark, crushed berries; there heathery hillocks shone red, decked with cowberries as with rosaries of coral. — Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812
• Specifically, the age of the visiting greybeard team. Times, Sunday Times
• He inspires in youth a sense of possibility and in greybeards a sense of youth.
• Greybeard: “Their geothermally powered civilization has developed drilling machines which turn rock to dust by inhibiting the weak nuclear force.” Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!
• Everything. " By then she had 15 months of field data from Gombe, most of it gathered through patient observation of individuals she knew by monikers such as David Greybeard, Mike, Olly, and Fifi.
• The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick.
• In the new age of fluidly changing computer skills it is the kids, reflexes honed by years of electronic games, who lead the field, not the greybeards.