whitebearded

Updated: May 21, 2025

Our society had been gladdened or at any rate galvanized by the biggest single contribution in its history; the arrival simultaneously of six purely extraordinary persons, whose names alone should be of more than general interest: The Magnifying Glass, The Trick Raincoat, The Messenger Boy, The Hat, The Alsatian, The Whitebearded Raper and His Son.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

Instead of receiving that Holy Sacrament in all thankful humility, my grand-uncle thrust away my lord Prior a whitebearded old man, of a venerable and commanding presence with great fury and ungoverned rage, storming at him in strangely-mingled words, which for sure, he meant for others, but in a voice and with a mien which plainly showed that he would have nought of that Messenger of Grace.

Georg Ebers - Margery — Complete

Illumination, moonlight, and evening glow, interspersed with torches through the wood; the whole might have been served, unaltered, as a great scenic effect in a romantic opera. Beside me sat the whitebearded Archbishop of Gran, primate of Hungary, in a black silk talar, with a red cape; on the other side a very amiable and elegant general of cavalry, Prince Liechtenstein.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 : Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle

The neighbourhoods had come out to vote, and introduced by my comrade, I had some interesting encounters. It was a good climax, when toward the end, near the Chancellor House, we met in the road a patriarchal figure, whitebearded and sturdy, on his way home from the polls.

James Kendall Hosmer - The Last Leaf : Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe

Instead of receiving that Holy Sacrament in all thankful humility, my grand-uncle thrust away my lord Prior a whitebearded old man, of a venerable and commanding presence with great fury and ungoverned rage, storming at him in strangely-mingled words, which for sure, he meant for others, but in a voice and with a mien which plainly showed that he would have nought of that Messenger of Grace.

Georg Ebers - Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

Instead of receiving that Holy Sacrament in all thankful humility, my grand-uncle thrust away my lord Prior a whitebearded old man, of a venerable and commanding presence with great fury and ungoverned rage, storming at him in strangely-mingled words, which for sure, he meant for others, but in a voice and with a mien which plainly showed that he would have nought of that Messenger of Grace.

Georg Ebers - Margery — Volume 07