How To Use Whiskers In A Sentence
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They are able to sense very minute vibrations in the ground, and feel their way through total darkness with their paws and whiskers.
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An scrape of whiskers or daub of toothpaste unrinsed in the bathroom sink.
Ann, meet Bob
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If you use 2 Blaser vanes they will hold up to many-many shots through the whiskers.
Drop away rests or a 2 pronged rest, or a Whisker biscuit
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TOKYO She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers.
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Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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I suspect that if the cops started hassling all the well-nourished bald guys with chin whiskers, I might soon find this tiresome.
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Oh my ears and whiskers, no!
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it's the braces that complete the whiskers look... along with his grandad shirt and vest.
The Sun
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Another notable mode of sensation in cats are whiskers, or vibrissae.
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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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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Fiancée
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He was clean shaven, only a few small whiskers roughened his otherwise smooth chin.
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He thinks the seals may detect prey by means of their whiskers, detecting the ‘wake’ of fish as they pass by.
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-- Pale sandy red, darker on the top of the head, the shoulders and fore part of back; two large patches behind the ears; the feet and the under-parts are pale buff yellow; ears moderately large, subovate and well clad, rusty yellow, paler on the under part; whiskers very long, brown, a few brownish white; toe-pads blackish.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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‘By no means, reverend Lady; They are of a delicate pea-green with flame-coloured hair and whiskers.’
The Monk
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Their top spark was a rangy, well-knit Ulsterman with sandy whiskers and a soft-spoken honeycomb voice; his name, he informed me, was Grattan Nugent-Hare, "with the hyphen, sir which is a bit of a pose, don't ye know, but I'm attached to it.
Isabelle
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An Zski an Tribble an lolcatburgler an halfbeast an Paul an Jules an whiskers an TinkieCheezburger & teh Angel Catburgers an SJ an sangrail an Melissa an Teenie an 343GuiltySpark an kitkay an DMarie an DivaGeek an Duffy an annyluvsprintie . . .
I has a sad. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Nocturnal animals, binturongs do most of their hunting at night, using their long whiskers as ‘tools’ for sensing food.
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The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.
The Adventure of Black Peter.
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Billions of tiny whiskers create a thin cushion of air above the cotton fabric, smoothing out wrinkles and allowing liquids to bead up and roll off without a trace.
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The lines or whiskers go from the minimum to the maximum unless there are interquartile range (the length of the rectangle) from the 75th percentile or 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR) less than the 25 th percentile.
Forbes.com: News
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Using a paint brush paint blue eyes and whiskers on to the rabbit's face and pink ears and a nose.
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The entire area under the tree was soaked and the dog was muddy from the whiskers on his cheeks to the bottom of his short tail.
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And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them.
Watershed
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The first who entered was a little ribston-pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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His uniform - the one he'd always worn - was green with age and his whiskers were grey and bristly.
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He licked the glisten from her fur and nuzzled among the sensitive whiskers around her snout.
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The Beard Liberation Front is not doing itself, or its cause, any favours by toadying to those who lack the conviction to sprout a decent set of whiskers and grow the full monty.
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Bron froze and stared pointedly at the finger, his whiskers vibrating crazily.
BEHINDLINGS
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The Emperor Franz Josef favoured equally luxuriant mutton-chop whiskers - effectively a beard, with the chin shaven.
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It has a nose like a dog's, teeth like a leopard's, and whiskers like an otter's.
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She still looks the cat 's whiskers though.
The Sun
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The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
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Unlike the Hollywood outsiders playing with six-shooters, Adakai could name all the sandstone spires, massive buttes, and whorled arches, bathed in reflected red: the Right Mitten and the Left, Gray Whiskers, Three Sisters, Bear and Rabbit, King on His Throne, arrayed in an ancient skyline that could have passed for Mars.
Yellow Dirt
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The lower and upper whiskers extend to the most extreme data point within 1.5 times the interquartile range of the first and third quartiles, respectively.
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A lord mayor's chauffeur is just a few whiskers away from becoming a world moustache champion.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I just look for a shorty with crumply whiskers?
Cheeseburger Gothic » While we wait for the Geek.
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whiskers grew luxuriantly from his ample jowls
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Not so long ago it was fashionable for extravagant whiskers to adorn all red-blooded males.
The Sun
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Perhaps he looked rather older than he was, for he was stiff built and strong, with an ample crop of whiskers extending from his great red docken ears round his harvest moon of a face.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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Lincoln "growed" whiskers after his first nomination for the Presidency.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
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As soon as the whiskers pass over food, the protrusible mouth drops down with an elevator-like motion and rapidly sucks in its meal.
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The engraver's tools make beautiful striations and cross-hatchings on foliage and on birds' wings and rictal bristles, feathers fine as whiskers, that watercolor alone can never produce.
The Joys of Slow Looking
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ZnO whisker , the only tetrapod among all kinds of whiskers, possesses good comprehensive properties.
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Gradually, I became used to seeing the gentleman with the black whiskers.
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We drew from the river shining blue perch heavier than the fattest man in our company, and there were huge catfish, with barbellate whiskers as long as my arm, that were too strong and weighty to be captured in the nets.
River God
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IT may be cute, but the latest top model to do IT debut in Vogue is too podgy with short legs and whiskers.
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Whiskers the manatee is an ambassador for his imperiled species.
Sharing in the USA
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Highlights included a heart-stopping display by the Red Arrows, whose daredevil pilots flew within whiskers of each other before rising into the sky trailing plumes of coloured smoke.
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He was a stout older Scot by the name of Ian, with whiskers of a beard, and a rough voice, but had a kind heart.
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He watched the cat cleaning the milk off her whiskers.
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I turned into a tiger and roared, feeling the sinews under my skin tighten, and my adopted whiskers bristle.
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You wear a shiny skin and a funny hat-the Almighy Animal Trainer lets it go at that, You bark ever-so-slightly at the Trainer's gun, with your whiskers melting in the noon-day sun.
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A bald man with bushy side-whiskers frowned down from a window with her father's frown, and for an instant looked so much like Lord Tywin that she stumbled.
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Jesus, I had to laugh at the way he came out with that about the old one with the winkers on her, blind drunk in her royal palace every night of God, old Vic, with her jorum of mountain dew and her coachman carting her up body and bones to roll into bed and she pulling him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about
Ulysses
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Spidery legs, rat eyes, whiffling whiskers: an unearthed hedgehog, part of the general exodus due to building developments nearby.
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Who's the old gee-gee with the whiskers?" asked the disrespectful
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
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Whether or not there are outliers - not all data sets have them - the whiskers extend to the largest value within 1.5 IQR from the 75 Must be at least 4 characters, letters and numbers only.
Forbes.com: News
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For rabbits, use red pimento for ears, strips of cucumber peel for whiskers and small pieces of olive for eyes.
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Although he was clean-shaven, Jason had some industrial-strength steel wool whiskers.
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Tall, handsome, unscrupulous, with splendid curling black cavalry whiskers, Flashman is also a compulsive womaniser.
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The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly (or so he seemed to me) anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
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“I have so many chin whiskers I look like carny-folk!” cried Jules, while Laurie gasped that her pores resembled “bullet holes.”
'Cougar Town' recap: Sex, snacks, and videotape | EW.com
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Young Morton stood in fur Smith, richt doon tae the whiskers.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Discovered in Laos, Southeast Asia, the animal is described as an ‘oddball rodent’ with long whiskers, stubby legs, and a furry tail.
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Several new chin whiskers, an overnight moustachio, and five new zits in festive colours ornamented my face.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Thick, bristly, black whiskers that covered the lower half of his face told the two shipmates that he hadn't shaved in a long while.
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Finally, when you trim those unwanted whiskers, remember to take it easy with the trimmer and read the instructions before doing something that could be potentially dangerous.
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Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it!
The Silver Spoon
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The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton-chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
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Building the cairn was a fine warming jab, but the ice on our whiskers often took some ten minutes thawing out.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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He thinks he's the cat's whiskers , ie has a high opinion of himself.
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He watched the cat cleaning the milk off her whiskers.
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A cigarillo protruded from between carefully trimmed greying whiskers.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Look the cat 's whiskers.
The Sun
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Back black and yellowish grizelled, with longer black hairs; sides yellowish grey, beneath grey lead colour, under fur lead colour; ears with scattered short adpressed hairs; whiskers black; front teeth yellow; tail with short black adpressed bristles; length of body and head 7, tail
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
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Long-tailed weasels have a small, narrow head with long whiskers.
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If her conduct was forward, well, her connubial expectations had been dashed by the recreant Popplewell, and the arrival of Flashy with whiskers rampant must have seemed like the answer to a randy young matron's prayer.
THE NUMBERS
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Since the mustache part of General Burnside's invention was nothing new, the cheek whiskers became known as ‘Burnsides’ and enjoyed a certain vogue among men of the day.
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The whiskers disappear as the fish grow, and are not found on adult flying fish.
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The shaggy whiskers, almost bare in places, and in others massing into bunchgrass-like clumps, were plentifully splashed with gray.
CHAPTER 22
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Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
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Pet lovers will think this is the cat 's whiskers - a pendant with a pic of their kitty.
The Sun
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The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel.
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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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When he laid aside his black, his whiskers, too, went into a sort of half-mourning, and appeared in grey.
The Newcomes
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This strange assortment of whiskers of different fashions on various parts of his face, imperial, goatee, burnsides, he brought back with him.
Walking-Stick Papers
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Does the plural form of mustachio refer to each group of whiskers on each side of the upper lip?
Question for my writerly buds
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Some renegades, however, are out of the closet and proudly displaying fake whiskers and five-o'clock shadow, along with suits, boots and suspenders.
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But all the cups and saucers being clean, and in their proper places in the corner-cupboard; and the brass toasting-fork hanging in its usual nook and spreading its four idle fingers out as if it wanted to be measured for a glove; there remained no other visible tokens of the meal just finished, than such as purred and washed their whiskers in the person of the basking cat, and glistened in the gracious, not to say the greasy, faces of her patrons.
The Chimes
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Eyeballs, whiskers, blood and even tiger nose are among the parts used for their perceived curative properties.
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While Peter's normal hairstyle wasn't changed in any way, he was given whiskers and a moustache.
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I should have known those whiskers anywhere-the very picture of a dashing hussar, eh?
Isabelle
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The lines or whiskers go from the minimum to the maximum unless there are interquartile range (the length of the rectangle) from the 75th percentile or 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR) less than the 25 th percentile.
Forbes.com: News
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ACCORDING to the decree of Heaven, there once lived in the Persian city of Kerman a cat like unto a dragon -- a longsighted cat who hunted like a lion; a cat with fascinating eyes and long whiskers and sharp teeth.
The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales
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He didn't have his whiskers, but just a few as a rogue unshaved beard.
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This film is the cat 's whiskers.
The Sun
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.. this introduction contains the pseudo-introduction the original the variants of the original the pseudo-original as well as the variants of the pseudo-original the apocrypha and the incorporation of all these texts in an original arpocryphum with apocopated whiskers as well as fifty calcinated medals and fifty suns of fifty years because the ..
Quo Murphy
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Tiger whiskers, eyes, brains, tails, and bones, in particular, are used in traditional remedies believed to cure ailments ranging from toothache to epilepsy.
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I'm not saying we should all grow whiskers, but there is such a thing as growing old with decorum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two wires served to deliver electrical cues - one each to the brain cells associated with the rats left and right whiskers, respectively.
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Smooth-coated otters are agile in the water and on land and use their sensitive whiskers to detect water disturbances.
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I like to watch the Belgian hares eating their trifolium or pea-pods or grass; graceful, gentle things they are, crowding about Mr. Heaven, and standing prettily, not greedily, on their hind legs, to reach for the clover, their delicate nostrils and whiskers all a-quiver with excitement.
The Diary of a Goose Girl
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-- Fur above pale yellowish-brown; under fur lead coloured, mixed with longer piles of stiff, broad, plumbeous black tipped hairs; head long; muzzle narrow; whiskers long and black; ears large, subovate, slightly clad with fine hairs; eyes large; incisor teeth yellow; feet brownish above, but the sides and toes are whitish; tail longer than head and body.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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During his master's work he built a small robot with whiskers and photoelectric eyes controlled by a minicomputer, and wrote a thesis on a computer language for artificial intelligence.
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Like his uncle Henry M Olmsted, he also wore whiskers in the Burnside style, but he started out as a young man with a down turned mustache.
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When we think of the middle class of the middle century, complete with muttonchop whiskers and chimneypot hats, we underrate the wild and even wicked philosophies that have passed like a wind through their heads without disturbing their hats.
G.K.'s Weekly - The Case of Adam Smith
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An 'I want ter ast yer what other animile hez whiskers exceptin' ther goat.
Ted Strong's Motor Car
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The predominance of bouffant silver hair and whiskers was most impressive.
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Had Mr Sawbridge made his appearance in uniform it might have been different, but that a plain-looking man, with black whiskers, shaggy hair, and old blue frock-coat and yellow casimere waistcoat, should venture to address him in such a manner, was quite incomprehensible; -- he calls me mad, thought
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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So we met to do him honor; worshipper and eager fawner begged a tassel of his whiskers, or his autograph in ink; never was there so much sighin 'round a pallid human lion, as he stood his lines explaining, taking out the hitch and kink!
Rippling Rhymes
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The actor in role of an old man wears false whiskers.
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Looking into her eyes and reaching up a bit nervously, I take my hand and rub the backs of my fingers through the soft downy fur of her cheek, avoiding her whiskers which might be sensitive, and the blood on her muzzle.
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Next month's drive urges fellas to grow whiskers to raise cancer awareness.
The Sun
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- Colour dusky grey-brown above, more or less dark, with black hands and feet; a conspicuous crest on the vertex; under parts white, scarcely extending to the inside of the limbs; sides grey like the back; whiskers dark, very long, concealing the ears in front; lips and eyelids conspicuously white, with white moustachial hairs above and similar hairs below.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Men with implausible whiskers and killer breath traded ribaldry and cursed the niggardliness of non-buyers, while women doled out penny dainties to raggedy kids and cackled about their menfolk's amorous shortcomings.
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The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white.
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Finally, the cat sat in the middle of the street washing himself, lifting first one paw and then the other to clean his ears and whiskers.
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His uniform - the one he'd always worn - was green with age and his whiskers were grey and bristly.
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As to me, I cannot say whether I spoke or not, but I know that my mind and my memory were clearer than I can ever remember them, and I was thinking all the time about the old folk at home, and about Cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing eyes, and de Lissac with his cat's whiskers, and all the doings at West Inch, which had ended by bringing us here on the plains of Belgium as a cockshot for two hundred and fifty cannons.
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
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With his big whiskers and fluffy moustache, he looks as if he might have a chance at best of breed himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had sleek fur, and whiskers that stretched away from the face.
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Both sexes may erect hackles on neck when alarmed, to form prominent whiskers.
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He wore a checkered cloak over a sweater or two and heavy trousers, sported a full dark moustache and whiskers, he seemed a pensive type, sallow-faced and quiet.
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-- "Fur above sooty black without any ferruginous smear, beneath lighter coloured; whiskers long, silvery grey; some parts of legs and feet greyish, clothed with adpressed hairs; claws short, whitish; ears large, round, naked; outer margin lying on a level with the fur of the head and neck, the ears being thus concealed posteriorly; tail tetragonal, tapering, shorter than head and body.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Instead, fields of waving wheatlike grass stretched to the distant horizon, interrupted only by isolated thickets of slender, buttery-yellow trees that rose from the flavescent savanna like stiff whiskers on a cat's face.
Kingdoms of Light
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The storekeeper was a tall, portly man, with a gray mustache and side-whiskers, and a high bald forehead.
Hiram the Young Farmer
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If we closed our eyes, we could almost see men with mutton-chop whiskers and stem expressions, and women with cinched waists and skirts with floor-sweeping trains.
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Nastiklof was small and bounderish, with no bridge to his nose and up-swept black and grey striped side-whiskers.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Lambeth's Cat's Whiskers account pays 6.90 per cent on a minimum deposit of ￡100.
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Fred exclaimed, his whiskers atremble with anxiety.
The Dragon’s Apprentice
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Perhaps it's the braces that complete the whiskers look... along with his grandad shirt and vest.
The Sun
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I'm an extremely light sleeper, and once woken - even by the faint brush of our kitten's whiskers on my arm - I stay that way.
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Ah, it became a giant with heavy side whiskers.
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Young Morton stood in fur Smith, richt doon tae the whiskers.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Another notable mode of sensation in cats are whiskers, or vibrissae.
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I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements.
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He long ago ditched the specs, shaved off his whiskers and now has a rather kindly avuncular air.
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The fish in the photo actually appears to be a Cyprinus carpio, usually called common carp or koi, which is distinguishable by the two short whiskers (called barbels) surrounding its mouth and large scales covering its body, according to the New York Department of
Livescience.com
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The particles may be carbon fibers, carbon black, carbon whiskers, coated hollow microspheres, or a combination thereof.
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AS jobs go, it was the cat 's whiskers.
The Sun
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The actor in role of an old man wears false whiskers.
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Looking into her eyes and reaching up a bit nervously, I take my hand and rub the backs of my fingers through the soft downy fur of her cheek, avoiding her whiskers which might be sensitive, and the blood on her muzzle.
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A cigarillo protruded from between carefully trimmed greying whiskers.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Not so long ago it was fashionable for extravagant whiskers to adorn all red-blooded males.
The Sun
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Rather, they find food via the sensitive touch of their 600 to 700 vibrissae, or whiskers, which have been likened to multifingered hands on the animals' snouts.
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A: boxplot shows medians (bold lines), quartiles (boxes), and largest and smallest observed values that are less than the 1.5 times the interquartile range (whiskers).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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A wiry old man appeared, a bit shorter than average height, sporting a button-collar and sleeves over small pot-belly and mutton-chop whiskers from the decades past.
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That is the way, young man, returned he of the forty years and the dyed whiskersThe rose has lived the life of a rose
Paras. 200–299
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Aquarius is likely to order stuff most people have never heard of: a caipirinha, Satan's whiskers, a negroni, an Arthur Tompkins.
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Shell holes, shattered doors and broken windows, telegraph poles lying about, with their hairy whiskers twisting raggedly over the veldt, farmhouses burnt to cinders, hotels that had once been smart in their way now weevilled by shrapnel -- all these things surrounded the encamped division which so brilliantly had crossed the river.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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Key variations are in the shape of the animal's skull, jaw muscles, air bladder - which fish use to rise and sink in water - and, perhaps most noticeably, the wispy barbels, or whiskers, around its mouth.
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He was bareheaded with whiskers proudly displayed, bright eyes prominent in grey-brown fur and large flat ears twitching with a life of their own.
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But all the cups and saucers being clean, and in their proper places in the corner – cupboard; and the brass toasting – fork hanging in its usual nook and spreading its four idle fingers out as if it wanted to be measured for a glove; there remained no other visible tokens of the meal just finished, than such as purred and washed their whiskers in the person of the basking cat, and glistened in the gracious, not to say the greasy, faces of her patrons.
The Chimes
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His small face, adorned with straggling blond whiskers and as wrinkled and rough as a winter apple, was hidden by a large oil-cloth hat lined with felt; a sort of gray coutil coat was drawn up to his hips and bagged around his stomach, while his trousers stopped at the knees and disclosed his bare legs reddened by the rubbing of the stirrup-straps, and his blue hose, which hung over his shoes.
Over Strand and Field
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The newcomer was a man short and powerfully built, dressed in a shabby-genteel sort of way, with a massive head covered with black hair, heavy side whiskers and moustache, and a clean shaved chin, which had that blue appearance common to very dark men who shave.
Madame Midas
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They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers.
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Baby Mouse dolls with big button eyes, thready whiskers, twisty pink tails, big baby feet.
BABY MOUSE
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The dark horizontal line is the median, the notches represent the 95% confidence intervals on the medians, the box heights show the interquartile ranges, the whiskers show the data extent, and the circles are outliers.
Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit
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A realistic hologram of a rag-clad senior with a white ponytail and long alabaster whiskers examined about the room with a confused countenance.
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However, these materials were still too weak to support their own weight without tapering, although in the case of graphite whiskers the taper ratio was a more manageable 100.
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Against It is growing whiskers now and is being eclipsed by younger and better rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Circles show “outliers”, points which are further from the quartile than the size of the IQR length of the whiskers.
Solar Proxies « Climate Audit
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Runway is black with a white bib, whiskers and socks.
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Whiskers, also known as vibrissae are touch receptors that provide the animal with information about its immediate surroundings.
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“Whiskers” (dotted lines going up and down from colored boxes) show the range of data out to the size of the Inter Quartile Range (IQR, shown by box height).
Solar Proxies « Climate Audit
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One of them, Ambrose Burnside, even gave rise to the term sideburns because of his elaborate whiskers.
The Day the Rabbi Wouldn't Shave
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His decorations added to his queer appearance; scarred by deep gashes on chest and arms, his body was daubed with red ochre, and his ribs picked out with white; on his head a kind of chignon formed of grass, hair, and string held his matted locks in place, like a bird's nest on his crown; he had neither beard nor whiskers, and was not blessed with any article of clothing whatever.
Spinifex and Sand
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Hareton's whiskers, for example, ‘encroach bearishly over his cheeks'.
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He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.
Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915
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The actor in role of an old man wears false whiskers.
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She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers.
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He was a real old-fashioned man with whiskers, a tall hat and a big old cape.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers.
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The two foxes met broadside, spiralling inwards anticlockwise to touch whiskers before gliding apart in opposite directions.
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They are either a spectacular boob or the cat's whiskers.
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He was at this time a significant figure — tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly — with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears.
The Financier
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As he stopped dead, Mr Lammle, making that gingerous bush of his whiskers to look out of, offered him the word ‘Destiny.’
Our Mutual Friend
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Simultaneously Slim reached for his quoit, and Whiskers and Fatty for their rocks.
THE PRINCESS
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His face was uncommonly dirty; his eyes uncommonly inquisitive; his whiskers uncommonly plentiful; and his voice most uncommonly and determinately gruff, in spite of his efforts to dulcify it for the occasion.
The Stolen Mask; or The Mysterious Cash-box. A Story for a Christmas Fireside
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Abraham Lincoln grew his whiskers in the months between his election and inauguration, making full beards ubiquitous during the Civil War that dominated his presidency.
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I wanted very much to say that I had seen moon fish seined off the Florida Keys; but that I had never before seen moon fish with whiskers; and that I thought them very amusing.
Escape on Venus
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Padded feet, keen night vision and sensitive whiskers enable silent movement through dense undergrowth at night.
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He had whiskers -- all jockeys should have whiskers -- but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified -- but most things have terribly changed since
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
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He was about thirty-five, the heartiest laugher that ever strained a rib in merriment, a genial, kindly man, with a keen, seawardly blue eye, weather-coloured face, short whiskers, and rising in his socks to near six feet.
The Honour of the Flag
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We used to park next to each other and thought we were the cat 's whiskers.
Times, Sunday Times
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One is made from brown needlecord, with wool felt ears and some chenille yarn for whiskers and a tail.
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He possessed all his teeth but one, and most of his hair as well, though his side-whiskers had lately broken out in polecat streaks of gray.
Excerpt: The Gates of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
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And besides, there sat black cat, not much further than whiskers ' distance from it.
ON CATS
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Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.
Our Mutual Friend
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And the job they did turned out to be the cat 's whiskers.
The Sun
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setaceous whiskers
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His whiskers describe him: bland, unambitious, conservative.
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Where there had been whiskers there was pancake makeup.
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Beside her sat a yellow and wrinkled woman of forty-five, with a low neck, in a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general.
Chapter XII
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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror — blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Flashman In The Great Game
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The cat obediently came and sat at her feet, his whiskers brushing her throat.
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I have very tough whiskers which are also prone to ingrowth.
