Example Sentences

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I was not quite halfway to the bottom when the burly, greybearded man who had played the second gravedigger suddenly appeared at the foot of the stairs.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

They came alongside, and the occupants swarmed over the tug's low bulwarks, and an old greybearded man made his way up to Lester.

From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Becke, Louis

Nothing else is wanted to render them fit now for their august occupants; and we may imagine the long-stoled greybearded men throned in state, each with his wand and with appropriate fillets on his head.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington