And stubbly is your cheek and chin. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Orion] Reference
The man scratched his stubbly beard, rolled his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth] Reference
They both looked hopefully at me as I rubbed my stubbly chin. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
The child lay above her in a tump of stubbly grass, where Robin. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
The stubbly chins were all smooth, and that makes a great difference. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier] Reference
She shook her head at that, reached out and touched the stubbly cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Wicked Pleasures]
He also abandoned his stubbly hair and opted for a cleaner cut in April. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Roethlisberger Weight Loss: How Is His New Look?] Reference
On English heaths the hare makes its "form" in the little stubbly furze-bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
His head was the same width as his neck from which hung swags of stubbly chins. From Wordnik.com. [buggerthat Diary Entry] Reference
Morgan touched the hard, masculine face and ran a hand through the thick stubbly hair. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Nor did he wear a stubbly growth of beard, but, on the contrary, his face was clean shaven. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
He was clean-shaven, or would have been had it not been for about three days 'stubbly growth. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
Her cleanliness reminded him of his grime and sour sweat-smell, unkempt hair and stubbly chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Alexander the Dancing Bear removed his head, revealing a stubbly-faced man underneath the mask. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Interest of the Child] Reference
She tugged it laboriously across the stubbly field, and her short, panting breaths did not reach. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Afterward DT tried to make out with me all evening with his giant beautiful head and stubbly chin. From Wordnik.com. [mitten Diary Entry] Reference
Then I had a bath, and cut my moustache, which was long and drooping, into a short stubbly fringe. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
Ostler ran his hand over his stubbly chin and gave the chesty wheeze that passed for laughter with him. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline for Murder]
When I went back to teaching I was concerned about how the students would react to my stubbly hair growth. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
It had kept him from stinking; I saw his square fighting face, his black stubbly chin, his short pug nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Bushmen have little body-hair and that of a weak stubbly nature, and none of the fine down usual on most skins. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The scant growth was blackened or partly covered with sand, and it fringed the distant uplands like a stubbly beard. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The stubbly roots grow out and down to create an effective anchor against the wind and rain of sultry summer afternoons. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: When Sweet Corn Tasted Like Corn] Reference
Hornett edged away upon his knees, and his thumb and fingers traced the creases of his smile up and down his stubbly cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
GreeneStreet's lofty space is held up by weathered wood columns and filled with stubbly film-school grads and lithe assistants. From Wordnik.com. [GreeneStreet Films' Buddy System Hits the Jackpot In the Bedroom] Reference
We had now a short but stiff climb; holding on to tufts of stubbly reed-like grass we pulled ourselves up to the top of the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
His hands were grimy, his face stubbly and streaked with sweat and mud, and he had been months alone with his too-sensitive spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
It was like sunrise upon his grey and stubbly countenance, where three days 'growth of beard had thriven in the soil of the guard-room. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.] Reference
Now, since I wasn't working yesterday, I decided to miss out on the boring task of shaving, so I was a bit stubbly when I dried my face. From Wordnik.com. [buggerthat Diary Entry] Reference
Yet there was almost determined hope in the bulletins that press secretary Frank Mankiewicz, wan and stubbly, carried outside to newsmen. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
Laila watched the arch of her closed fist, slicing through the air, felt the crinkle of Rasheed's stubbly, coarse skin under her knuckles. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
Then they walked on, diagonally away from the village, up a steep rocky slope covered with gnarled low shrubs and stubbly green new growth. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
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