How To Use Greybeard In A Sentence
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'Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon'
Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast
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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.
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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
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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
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Specifically, the age of the visiting greybeard team.
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He inspires in youth a sense of possibility and in greybeards a sense of youth.
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Greybeard: “Their geothermally powered civilization has developed drilling machines which turn rock to dust by inhibiting the weak nuclear force.”
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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.
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The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick.
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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.
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Jack Straw - Mr Brown's loyal "greybeard" - will stay as Justice Secretary.
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The hero of the tale squeezes whey out of a piece of cheese or curd which he passes off as a stone; he induces the fleet demon to compete with his "Hop o 'my Thumb" the hare; he sets the strong demon to wrestle with his "greybeard" the bear; he frightens the
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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They needed some formal outside advice and insight from a giant of the game, a greybeard from somewhere.
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He would admit that he is a bit of a greybeard, very wise and stable and a very clear thinker.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few weeks one male, who she named David Greybeard because of his white-tufted chin, let her approach him – tempted by the odd banana – and allowed her to observe him as he foraged for food.
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He inspires in youth a sense of possibility and in greybeards a sense of youth.
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This greybeard rewardingly spools back no end of grand matches, grand moments, and grand men.
Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
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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.
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She could not "call up spirits from the vasty deep" of the cellar, but she had procured some whiskey from her next-door neighbour – some five or six miles off, and there it stood somewhat ostentatiously on the table in a "greybeard," with a "corn cob," or ear of Indian corn stripped of its grain, for a cork, smiling most benevolently on the family circle, and looking a hundred welcomes to the strangers.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon.
Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast
