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Brosnan, 61, has a close-clipped beard, and tufty salt-and-pepper hair.

It is a creepy sound, inhumanly high-pitched and strangely clipped and emphatic: “S-s-eeg maheevoh s-s-speeree.”

"I clipped it from last night's San Francisco Bulletin," the latter explained quietly.

He hesitated, and a wave of dark colour flooded his face up to the roots of his close-clipped hair.

Only the upper part is shaved, or clipped to the skin, the long winter coat being left on the legs and half-way up the body.

I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.

He must have slipped behind a ragged old yew which had once been clipped and trimmed to look like a chess-king.