burly-bearded

Updated: May 17, 2025

"I put the dust there for safety kalkilatin' that while these road gentry allus goes for a man's pockets and his body belt, they never thinks of his butes, or haven't time to go through 'em." He looked around him with a smile of self-satisfaction. The murmur of admiring comment was, however, broken by a burly-bearded miner who sat in the middle seat.

Bret Harte - In a Hollow of the Hills