Meanings of bristly beard in English

Cayrol was confused; he twisted his bristly beard with his fingers.

She would have spoken of no man as a baboon with a bristly beard.

His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery.

His jaw was clenched in barely suppressed frustration beneath a bristly beard that was shot through with grey.

She felt the scrub of his little bristly beard, and raised her face with a deep sigh of satisfaction.

You and your bristly beard.

Ólafsson plays Andri with great subtlety, especially for a man who rouses himself by rubbing snow in his big bristly beard.

A squinting eye gave him a villainous leer, while a bristly beard and long gray hair made him a ferocious spectacle.

Wot do you suppose I have a three-days' growth of bristly beard on my face for, and a cap with flaps?

The baker's jaw clenched under his bristly beard, hard enough that Albric could see it, although the man's back was to the light.

He even endeavored to force a smile but it was hardly more than a ridging of his cheek muscles under his bristly beard.

It was little Tiefel, now a first lieutenant with a bristly beard and tanned face, come to town on a few days' furlough.

The half worn-out old farm hand, with the bristly beard and the strong old body, became a figure full of significance to her mind.

He saw that the other was past middle age, for his face was covered with a bristly beard of a week's growth, verging on gray.

The Prince agreed and invited Herrfurth to lunch, but afterwards told Bismarck he could not stand him, "with his bristly beard, his dryness and tediousness."

"Only the Oracle can determine." Chiron stroked his bristly beard.