How To Use Grizzled In A Sentence
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But it's a reassuring presence and it grows on you like the frown of a grizzled but kindly uncle.
The Sun
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They seem like grizzled, wild-eyed children delighted with today's adventure.
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Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
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A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
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His face came attached to a grizzled beard; a finger jabbed at the reinforced glass.
STUART: A Life Backwards
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A grizzled senior bannerman had the Red Hand, a fellow with narrow eyes and more scars than Daerid who insisted on actually carrying the banner a part of each day, which few bannermen did.
Lord of Chaos
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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She plays the daughter of grizzled Peter Mullan, who swaps her and her dying mother for a stake in a gold mine.
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One man is rather grey and grizzled, with whiskers poking quite a way out of his brow.
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The parson was a little, meagre, black-looking man, with a grizzled wig that was too wide, and stood off from each ear; so that his head seemed to have shrunk away within it, like a dried filbert in its shell.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Mr. Olaster, a tall man with grizzled hair, looked over his glasses disapprovingly as she slipped into her seat near the door.
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Just listen to the white noise and stare at the carnage, which begins with what starts out as a well-coordinated assault on a Bolivian drug lord's compound by a Special Forces unit led by "Colonel" Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a veteran so grizzled that his grizzles have grizzles.
Politics
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His face came attached to a grizzled beard; a finger jabbed at the reinforced glass.
STUART: A Life Backwards
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Your average grizzled patriarch stumbles about making the same mistakes in his senectitude that he had in adolescence, learning nothing, "believing in the same white list of approved 20-carat lies.
Borne Ceaselessly Into the Future
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Most of the soldiers in the queue were grizzled captains and majors.
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Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
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He was a grizzled veteran, spare of body, and as supple in the saddle as a youth.
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Grizzled veterans will squint into the sun, look you up and down, and warn that it is definitely not a race for snivellers.
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her husband demands, the famously intimidating brows beetling like two grizzled insects as he proceeds to fiddle with a radiator.
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A newspaper holds a 700 mile horse race, and the usual suspects apply: the comely lady of the night, the young upstart, the grizzled veteran and, err, the animal advocate?
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A lanky man, with grizzled brows and untrimmed beard, got up slowly from the stringpiece of the wharf and slouched forward to meet Janice Day.
Janice Day at Poketown
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A definite soul, or entity, or spirit-thing glimmered behind his dog's eyes, already fond with affection for this hair-grizzled god who talked with him he knew not what, but whose very talking carried delicious and unguessable messages to his heart.
CHAPTER IV
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Now, in the reluctant dawn light, he stood eyeing the carriage and rubbing his grizzled chin.
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A weather-worn face, as craggy as the surrounding hills, grins out from beneath a grizzled beard.
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The 35-year-old Scouser is greying and grizzled.
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His final turn of the screw is the memory of a grizzled old miner who clutches his wrist as he and his pals are leaving the tunnel and boarding the bus to go home, and sez: ‘Sonny, we'll be here after you've gone.’
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He had a grizzled beard with small specks of white running through the black.
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Today, my patience is tested by 78-year-old Nathaniel Jones, a grizzled fireplug of a man in a motorized wheelchair.
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But despite the duds, Leung is actually a Harvard-trained researcher at a nearby university — not a grizzled Gem State native on the hunt for a new Winchester.
Authentic Americana
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Rather than apologise or back down, Mac grizzled over a Queen's Club ban that he incurred after insulting the chairman's wife on a practice court days after his 1984 win, and opted not play in the championship for six years.
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The other, tall, meagre, with long grizzled hair and a wild unsettled look about the eyes, was a man of science; had written works well esteemed upon mathematics and electricity, also against the existence of any other creative power than that which he called "nebulosity," and defined to be the combination of heat and moisture.
The Parisians — Volume 05
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He was short and stocky, with brown hair that was graying at the temples and a grizzled gray beard.
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As the afternoon wore on, he resorted to covering his grizzled features with his hands, as if finding it hard to face further evidence that his scheme is hopelessly impracticable as well as offensive in principle.
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He took a little slim white hand and laid it down on his brown palm, where it looked all the whiter: he cleared the grizzled mustachio from his mouth, and stooping down he kissed the little white hand with a great deal of grace and dignity.
The Newcomes
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The training team included grizzled veterans as well as fighters who themselves had little more than a few weeks' experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just then the bridge rang under horse-shoe iron, and the party turned and saw Bennet Hatch come galloping -- a brown-faced, grizzled fellow, heavy of hand and grim of mien, armed with sword and spear, a steel salet on his head, a leather jack upon his body.
The Black Arrow
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A tall, grizzled man with wild, greying hair, wearing an old cheesecloth shirt, he is incongruous in a settlement remarkable for its neat, well-spaced houses and broad central avenue.
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Older Oscar-winning actor playing the grizzled veteran?
The Sun
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She was grizzled old woman with a beer belly and voice to match, and she knew something about justice.
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The ubiquitous Tully Marshall plays the grizzled sidekick role, showing much more range as an actor in talkies than he had in silents.
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He moved like a swordsman, and his eyes were keen above his grizzled beard.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
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Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
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It was a courageous display from young men finding their feet against grizzled veterans.
The Sun
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The grizzled Sathe dismissed the guard with a disgusted hiss and a swat across the ears that tore the fragile membrane.
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The bo's'n, a grizzled veteran of many sea-fights, was kneeling beside his Captain with an ear to his side.
The Black Buccaneer
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On the little porch sat a big man with grizzled whiskers, smoking a brier-wood pipe, his beamlike legs crossed and his arms folded as he moodily watched the launch.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters
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He wore shorts and a T-shirt that revealed well-muscled legs and arms and a strong neck that belied the grizzled hair.
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Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel, their grizzled crews eyeing us suspiciously.
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English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry red - and - black - and - tan or grizzled coat and dropped ears.
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The grizzled hellraiser wants a share of the merchandising profits instead of a flat fee, presumably to spend on more booze.
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‘Oh, I see,’ said Marcus, and smiled at her, the grizzled smile of a weather-beaten old man.
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a grizzled man with a beaklike nose
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He was short and grizzled and somewhat round in the belly - he did not seem at all the threatening type.
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There were a few grizzled Regulars who at various postings around the world had obviously looked into the whole subject quite closely.
Whicker's War
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Traffic in Puget Sound is so bad that bicycling has become the sport of grizzled bums, high energy whippet like software engineers, and action crazed suburban boys.
Why Don’t More Women Ride? « PubliCola
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Baron Morgan, a grizzled old warrior with iron-grey hair, rose from his seat indignantly.
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Anyway, our narrator is Sarge (Alan Van Sprang) a tough, determined, and grizzled Guardsman chiseled from the mold of Colin Farrell.
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These passwords had to be repeated by the palace guards, who were grizzled old centurions given guard duty as a kind of honorable semi-retirement.
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Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails.
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‘We're going in low to take a closer look,’ drawls the grizzled pilot as he hauls the jet into a steep dive and zooms towards the coastline.
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Grizzled and articulate, he now drives a delivery van for some of his old trawlerman friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dodd and Benton looked to the rear at the speaker, a small, bony man with a grizzled face that spoke of hard, long days in the saddle.
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He would much rather have a bunch of grizzled veterans who were sure of their place, who could be expected to deliver regularly and reliably.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore shorts and a T-shirt that revealed well-muscled legs and arms and a strong neck that belied the grizzled hair.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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Grizzled veterans in uniform gathered at the war monument.
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Recall also that the three musketeers are fallen idols, prototypes of the grizzled gunslingers found in so many Westerns.
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Yes, all those parties that in the last few days have grizzled about lack of funding for transport refused to support the funding increase.
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Although the largest single group is made of grizzled white men, there was a black father with two happy young kids, some twenty-something Spanish student-types and well-dressed working people.
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woolled" him until his grizzled hair stood straight on end.
The Thunder Bird
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He moved like a swordsman, and his eyes were keen above his grizzled beard.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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But in the eyes of this grizzled, embittered old observer, the all-time masterpiece is a short story written by Gene Hill.
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She rubbed the spittle into his skin in a businesslike way, bent close enough that he could smell the ancient sweat of her and see the lice crawling in the grizzled hair that keeked from the edge of her rusty-black shawl.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Currently in a middleweight state, Del Toro delivers a good turn here, as does the barrel-chested James Caan as the millionaire's grizzled bagman.
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The baby was cutting a tooth and grizzled all day long.
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According to one grizzled old rocker the blame lies not with volume but with technology.
Times, Sunday Times
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The popularity of the trilogy spawned better than 200 Italian-made oaters, the greatest of which is arguably Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, which starred not Clint Eastwood but Jason Robards as its grizzled anti-hero.
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The bo's'n, a grizzled veteran of many sea-fights, was kneeling beside his Captain with an ear to his side.
The Black Buccaneer
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Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
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Silver winked in the man's grizzled brown hair and in the stubble that grew on his cheekbones.
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Grizzled veterans in uniform gathered at the war monument.
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The lighthouse keeper was a huge old man with a grizzled beard that came down over his chest.
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The station, made famous in the eponymous Oscar-nominated film, was filled with grizzled old men in rakish Panama hats, young Turks in Bermuda shorts and T-shirts, and besuited and bemused commuters.
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He had an old, rough, grizzled face, quite aged and weathered, and his eyes were a deep, deep blue, like chips of ice.
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His face came attached to a grizzled beard; a finger jabbed at the reinforced glass.
STUART: A Life Backwards
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A weather-worn face, as craggy as the surrounding hills, grins out from beneath a grizzled beard.
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It's no big deal to them, the grizzled old mentalist asserted.
The Sun
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Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel, their grizzled crews eyeing us suspiciously.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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An anchorwoman was interviewing a grizzled old military man about special-forces operations.
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I can imagine the grizzled producer sitting there, all designer stubble and plastered grin, chomping on a cigar while Moynahan comes in and frugs for his personal pleasure.
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Eddie had been working Buchanan Street - a prime lunchtime pitch - for over an hour ‘I've not even made enough for my bus fare up the road,’ he grizzled.
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Currently in a middleweight state, he delivers a good turn here, as does the barrel-chested James as the millionaire's grizzled bagman.
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He cut a distinctive figure with his grizzled beard, smart suits and outsized spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I like this place already,’ said one grizzled old TriBeCa resident as he settled into the restaurant's long faux-leather banquette.
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A clochard was asleep on the far pavement under a bush, his grizzled gray head resting on his extended arm, totally oblivious to the spray steadily heading his way.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
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Pike was a grizzled combat veteran in charge of fifteen green recruits.
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There was a bunch of grizzled, fat grey-haired ladies recalling their dewy youth.
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It was a decidedly mixed crowd, with younger metal fans standing alongside grizzled concert veterans and mortgage-paying daddies.
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The grizzled leader hunched like a porcupine and peered through a screen of yaupon leaves, the crossbow held low before him.
Fire The Sky
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Nolte has long been top of the casting list for grizzled grumps, but the simple reason for that is he's so darned good at it.
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In addition, fellow grizzled performers Allan Ramsay and Steven Stewart are lined up for, their 63rd and 62nd outings in the tournament.
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Her grizzled hair stuck out from beneath a patched and tattered hat, which Hazel was almost certain the woman had knit herself.
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Like many bushrangers, he was Irish in origin, the son of a father with a lurid, criminal past, and a mother with a fiery temper, a taste for strong liquor and grizzled lovers.
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He smiled, showing surprisingly white teeth from such a grizzled, unshaven face.
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With his grizzled beard and his peg-leg he looked like an extra from Treasure Island.
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The requisite grizzled old salt, Mr. Stubb, pipe clenched between his teeth, was sung by Robert Orth, who succeeded in making his character a beloved comic figure in short order and led the local-color-providing sea-chanties (the chorus was also very strong).
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Windy Bill's story of the faithful bullsnake aroused to reminiscence the grizzled stranger, who thereupon held forth as follows:
Arizona Nights
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He was grizzled, pale-skinned, pouchy beneath the eyes and around the jowls.
Venom
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Like a grizzled old investigative reporter once told me: It's not the stuff they try to hide that's the real scandal; it's the stuff they think they can get away with right out in the open.
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His shaggy mane of grizzled grey hair was in desperate need of a wash and a trim.
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Wherefore, though his hair be grizzled and his face marked with serried lines, he departed not the passage of arms for straight love of tourneying.
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The front part of the body (ending just after front legs) and its hind legs are black, while its back has a saddle of grizzled white or grey.
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Battered chain-gangs of the orlop, grizzled draughts of years gone by ...
CHAPTER XXXV
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Proclamations like this are not unknown among newspapermen, especially grizzled ones, and the quitting never happens, nor does the book.
Globe and Mail
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After he moaned and grizzled a bit more, and after I said I couldn't stop the rain a couple of times, I got up, we both went to the toilet - again - and I tucked him in his own bed.
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An English-born colleague grizzled that it seemed very focused on London.
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A grizzled old con, he has seen it all before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just by looking into those soulful orbs, I saw that this grizzled woodsman carried the weight of the modern world on his shoulders.
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The chin and sides of the throat are paler grizzled than on the back and the lower part of the throat; the chest, belly, and inside of the limbs are either pale yellow or rich orange-yellow, or passing into pale chestnut in the Assam variety, in which the belly is rarely lineated.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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She does not speak in the tough vernacular of the grizzled guys who overpopulate her field.
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Mathin was a tall melancholy man with a grizzled grey beard and little hair.
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They have pointy snouts, bulbous noses and grizzled manes.
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No. That grizzled, tough old lumberman who toted you along up from the quayside is the brain of this organisation.
The Man in the Twilight
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`They grizzled a bit about getting down there and they all say they won't get up again because of their rheumatics ,' Tatty said cheerfully.
TICKLED PINK
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‘Never heard'a her,’ said a grizzled man with a dusty grey beard.
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The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
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A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
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Though Mark Hughes is grizzled, nothing of his career has been grey.
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The grizzled man is the instigator of all the troubles between Billy and the master-at-arms.
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Grizzled old-timers of Forty Mile and Circle City, sour doughs with leathern jaws and bean-calloused stomachs, called up dream memories of chickens and green things at mention of his name.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up.
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