Bearding

CLIFFORD STREIT'S new play could very well make the term "bearding" a household word. ❋ Gatecrasher (2011)

Forrester didn't like the idea of bearding the artisan in his workshop; it made him feel uncomfortable, and after a while he put his finger on the reason. ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)

I felt somewhat flattered by this encouraging condescension, and I admit now that I did not feel particularly happy at the idea of bearding the thieving lion, with his hyena-like satellites, in his den. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)

Famously, Newman and his soon-to-be-wife Joanne Woodward became friends with Gore Vidal, and in the most egregious example of "bearding" in history, Woodward agreed to act, temporarily, as Vidal's "fiancée" to exempt him from conservative disapproval ❋ Unknown (2008)

I turned to look at the cave, waiting for the icy fear to set in, but I felt nothing but an entirely reasonable nervousness at the thought of bearding Raziel in his den. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way." ❋ Timothy D. Slekar (2011)

Alarmed by Russian pogroms and the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial in France, Herzl wrote a manifesto, "The Jewish State" (1895), and a novel, "The Old-New Land" (1900), before bearding the German Kaiser at the gates of Jerusalem. ❋ Norman Lebrecht (2011)

This was an event worthy of clearing my calendar and bearding the lioness in her den. ❋ Jack Canfield (2010)

He says that in a certain nameless city ( "wherein men slaved for dollars and women for dress") he got the idea, being tapped out, of bearding the editor of a local newspaper, the Clarion, and showing this person a tramp sketch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If I carried weight in Washington it was news to me, and bearding Sam Grant on this crackpot's behalf wasn't my idea of a jolly afternoon. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

SOME PEOPLE SAY that she was wipe out on a combination of Prozac and plain wrap vodka cuz Bill was facing legal trouble cuz bearding for tryst with a White House intern at 3: 00 AM one evening. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1986, for example, while police were checking the "usual suspects" as passengers were bearding a flight in London for Tel Aviv, a young Irish chambermaid almost succeeded, albeit unwittingly, in smuggling a bomb hidden in her carry-on-bag on the plane. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He would take bearding the enemy in his den, any day, over wandering aimlessly in a jungle trying to avoid becoming dinner—or waiting to be rescued. ❋ SONDRA MARSHAK (2009)

In the name of bearding the dragon -- what, exactly, could go wrong that would make you not be able to go on? ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)