silken-bearded

Updated: May 24, 2025

Spring comes up earlier in the region of Scutari than it does in London, and there were many scores of ragged silken-bearded fellows rambling up and down the streets of the place on crutches before the first leaf had declared itself in any park in London, and almost before the first wayside flower had bloomed in any English country hedgerow.

David Christie Murray - VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea