And he answered, “O my son, the beardless is ashamed to eat with the bearded.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Yet even this "beardless" Parliament had shown a strong conservatism. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference
Boys from the plough; cornets with beardless chin. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Much was the clamour, 'mongst the beardless crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
The lad is beardless, smooth and soft and handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Who could these beardless men be but Chinese or Japanese?. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
You, a beardless youth, pretend to teach a British general. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
He did not think it good to go against a beardless wild boy. From Wordnik.com. [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference
"The beardless youths are fighting now," said the charioteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
'The beardless striplings are fighting now,' said the charioteer. From Wordnik.com. [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference
And beardless lips that mar not thine, however close th 'embrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
"Hum," said the spokesman, stroking his beardless chin thoughtfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained] Reference
"And it would be," sang out a beardless and thoughtless Lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Thus talked the beardless boy, nine months only from his mother's wing. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
One of the "Lutherans," a beardless youth of scarcely twenty years, the son of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
This nearly hid the expression of the countenance, as well as the beardless chin. From Wordnik.com. [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery] Reference
Ann; and even the beardless subalterns had voices which no coaxing could soften down. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
One went and told the king that a beardless boy had disappointed all his expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia] Reference
Champney Googe's still beardless lip had curled slightly as if his thought were a sneer. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
He must assuredly be a beardless youth who wishes to anticipate me as to what I ought to do. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
A seaman was in one instance described in his protection as "smooth-faced," that is, beardless. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
I attach no more consequence to what he may say than belongs to the prattle of a beardless boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Sedley, though still a beardless youth, shouldered his musket, and took his place in the ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
I do not know to what regiment they belonged, but I remember that they were mere beardless boys. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
The Dey wondered at the presumption of King George in sending a beardless boy as his ambassador. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Looking in the direction of the voice, I saw on a bed in one corner of the room an old beardless man. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
His face was beardless, though a shadowy line along his chin suggested that he had not shaved that particular day. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
He was slim and beardless, but there were sorrow and understanding in his look that could not come with childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Encircled with his companies of guards, "young, strong, and beardless," the great King Dacha squatted on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Parnassus he slew with his bow the monster Delphyne, he, still young and beardless, still rejoicing in his long tresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
In derision, the monster asked what she thought now of her beardless boy, and said, "That is the way I tame haughty maids.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Worn-out German troopers sprawled in the shade of the walls, sound asleep, their mouths ajar, -- beardless boys, most of them. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Even beardless boys, taking their cue from those who, being older, should know better, are unsparing in the use of such terms as. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It now appeared that those who had fought and beaten the troops were either beardless boys or old men scarcely able to hold a musket. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
However much Briseis lay with her bottom turned toward him, the son of AEacus found his beardless friend more congenial to his tastes. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
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