Meanings of scraggy beard in English

He lifted his bony hand and gave a tug at his scraggy beard.

His scraggy beard suggested poverty of soil on his lantern jaws.

Annas was a thin ill-humoured-looking old man, with a scraggy beard.

I rubbed my scraggy beard and felt shabby.

He turned out to be a little man with a scraggy beard and large round spectacles.

A scraggy beard covered half his face.

The subject of this sketch is a pure blooded Negro, whose kinky hair is now white, likewise his scraggy beard.

He was a compact, barrel-chested man with the level gaze and scraggy beard of an Amish farmer...

His hollow cheeks betrayed themselves through the scraggy beard, and his eyes seemed to have retired into deep caverns where they burned with cold fires.

"Look down there: the man with Balgodorus, the man in green with the scraggy beard."

Scraggy beards of bladdergrass and yellow moss occupied niches in the rocks, and prostrate willow hugged the ground like something spilled, not grown.