Bewhiskered

He is a kind of bewhiskered Sir Galahad who goes in quest of Trilby instead of the Holy Grail, and having found her, sits down on her bed and cheers her up while she kisses and caresses him. ❋ Unknown (1898)

While most of the pictured scientists are bewhiskered men, there are a few women in the set. ❋ Maxine (2009)

The picture of the bewhiskered trio, as he had last seen them, mulcted of four dollars and ninety cents and a ferry ticket, made him chuckle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still, visitors will likely be entranced by a rare surviving page from Dickens's manuscript of his first novel, "The Pickwick Papers"; letters describing in detail his plans for a shelter for "fallen" women; photographs of the author at middle age, bewhiskered and balding; and original illustrations by such collaborators as Hablot K. ❋ Julia M. Klein (2011)

As the bewhiskered patriarch, Patrick, Mr. Lang is a domestic terrorist, ruling his household through fear, beating his older son and drowning his own unhappiness. ❋ John Anderson (2011)

In 1919 the Washington Post applauded "serious cleaning up" of "bewhiskered, ranting, howling, mentally warped, law-defying aliens" and "international misfits," and in subsequent generations we find parallel support for official, well-muscled efforts to make us feel safe by finding an internal enemy that can be attacked. ❋ Michael Roth (2011)

The bewhiskered individual, who looked like a Scotsman, had the Teutonic name of Von Blix, and spoke with a strong American accent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

” Trips to the library revealed that the bewhiskered, barefoot man I’d fi rst seen looking out at me from the framed newspaper report, Henry James Stuart, was the builder, and he was anything but a hermit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Think of a gathering where the members of golf clubs, bowling clubs and Rotary clubs get together in all their bewhiskered and incontinent splendour. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In the book, a grinning, bewhiskered Obama with a Soviet-era Russian fur hat leaps out from a TV tuned to MSNBC. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The Great Dane with the telltale speech impediment ( "Ruh-roh, Raggy") and voracious appetite (Scooby snacks!) long ago became iconic, as did Scoobert's bell-bottomed and bewhiskered slacker of an owner, the easily spooked Shaggy, and the rest of Mystery Inc. 's sleuthing youths: cravat-happy Fred, the fashionable Daphne and the ever-deductive Velma. ❋ Michael Cavna (2010)

Next he noticed a bewhiskered, youthful-looking man, sitting at a roll-top desk, who regarded him curiously. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oxbridge's rowing Blues first raced each other in 1829, decades before football had ever thought of playing a Cup final, aeons before rugby's first international match, or cricket's inaugural Test, or before a high-chaired bewhiskered chap at Wimbers had initially ordered Quiet, please. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Catches of the Day Often bewhiskered, bug-eyed and oddly shaped, these species aren't winning any underwater beauty contests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

During this period he experimented with a comic character, the bewhiskered Willie Work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Staggering and maundering to himself, with bloodshot eyes, and a raw and bleeding slash down one side of his bewhiskered face, he was altogether the most nauseating specimen of degradation and filth I had ever encountered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ante has been roughly doubled by the Dodd-Frank bill, but the criticism of the bewhiskered men in starched collars is still on the mark. ❋ Eugene N. White (2010)

We walked and talked for hours past the overstuffed Asian food stalls, Latin markets, Italian bakeries, and men in high boots bearing huge, bewhiskered fish. ❋ Unknown (2010)