greyhead

Quoth the greyhead: My lady, we may not wonder if they be tarried for a few days; for this is an adventure on which they have gone, and many haps betide in such tales.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Then she sat gazing on it, while the greyhead turned and smiled on her, well pleased of her pleasure.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

‘Well, greyhead, what do you see?’ asked the cock.

The Grey Fairy Book 2003

Quoth the greyhead: My lady, we may not wonder if they be tarried for a few days; for this is an adventure on which they have gone, and many haps betide in such tales.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

Then she sat gazing on it, while the greyhead turned and smiled on her, well pleased of her pleasure.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

Through our glasses we made him out to be a bull -- an old greyhead, and probably a cunning fellow, one likely to try every dodge which a whale can think of to escape, and if failing to do that, and hard pressed, one who was likely to turn on his pursuers, and attack them with his open jaws or mighty flukes.

Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

He paid well, did he not, to teach you to know the world, nephew! hadst thou been born a fool, or a raw greenhead, or a doating greyhead — "— “What then, Sir

Pamela 2006