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  • A tall, broad-shouldered, black-whiskered man was paying for drinks.

    FINIS 2010

  • Tess; a Mrs. Hadley, who chaperoned them; "Whisky" Bob, a youthful oyster pirate of sixteen; and "Spider" Healey, a black-whiskered wharf-rat of twenty.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • The black-whiskered man and one of his companions arose.

    FINIS 2010

  • Suddenly he sprang back, lowered his hatchet, and addressed them again in Apache-and now came pounding of feet, American voices hollering, and round the bend in the valley men in stained blue coats and dragoon hats were running towards us, led by a big black-whiskered cove in plaid trousers and feathered hat, brandishing a revolver.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The Captain was splendid in person and raiment; fresh-coloured, blue-eyed, black-whiskered, broad-chested, athletic — a slight tendency to fulness did not take away from the comeliness of his jolly figure — a braver soldier never presented a broader chest to the enemy.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • After some little palaver he was shown into a study, fitted out less with books than with maps and globes, where the bald-headed, black-whiskered

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • After some little palaver he was shown into a study, fitted out less with books than with maps and globes, where the bald-headed, black-whiskered

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • There was one quiet Lancer, though, a black-whiskered Scotch nemesis who said never a word, and played the bull fiddle for his recreation.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Suddenly he sprang back, lowered his hatchet, and addressed them again in Apache-and now came pounding of feet, American voices hollering, and round the bend in the valley men in stained blue coats and dragoon hats were running towards us, led by a big black-whiskered cove in plaid trousers and feathered hat, brandishing a revolver.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Suddenly he sprang back, lowered his hatchet, and addressed them again in Apache-and now came pounding of feet, American voices hollering, and round the bend in the valley men in stained blue coats and dragoon hats were running towards us, led by a big black-whiskered cove in plaid trousers and feathered hat, brandishing a revolver.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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