A grizzly unshorn beard. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The sheep run unshorn and the land's gone to rushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Fields of Canada] Reference
Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
With soiled garments and unshorn beard Jason ran to the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Affghans, all unshorn as well as myself, created anything but. From Wordnik.com. [A Peep into Toorkisthhan] Reference
The commonalty in the streets were wild, unshorn, and in rags. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Upon which the latter departed unshorn, and ever remained so. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Ever, O king, be thy locks unshorn, ever unravaged; for so is it right. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
“But we were thrown before its beauty unprepared, unshrived, unshorn.”. From Wordnik.com. [Angkor Wat Book Review - A Glimpse of a Bygone Era | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context] Reference
The once unshorn face of nature had given way, and the farm now blossomed with. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Often unshorn for several years, the long fibers are woven into expensive carpets. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
One or two of the half-grown lambs came up, looking hot in their unshorn woolly coats. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go Down To The Sea]
May we never see your handsome countenance, washed or unwashed, shaven or unshorn, again!. From Wordnik.com. [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference
The sweater's only failing was that in the damp it broadcast the fragrance of an unshorn ewe. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The once unshorn face of nature had given way, and the farm now blossomed with a splendid harvest. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States] Reference
He was rather blown about by the wind, and his cheeks looked terribly pale, unshorn, and cavernous. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
His rugged, homely face was haggard and unshorn, and his rough dress was even more careless than common. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
Everybody seemed very clean and lordly, and for a moment I was ashamed of my dirty, ragged, unshorn self. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Several families lived nearby: unshorn, skin-clad fishers who kept a few animals and scratched in tiny gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
They had not discovered the secret of its power; and, therefore, its locks remained unshorn, its strength unabated. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
As the morning sun shone on the bare-headed multitude, the beauty of their unshorn hair struck me like a new revelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
The McCandlesses had, by all accounts, turned weird after Seth died, keeping their house shuttered and the yard unshorn. From Wordnik.com. [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference
He was suitably menacing, without a countenance like Fritz Hübner's sweaty, unshorn, and sloppy performance for Chéreau. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Kirchner's Götterdämmerung] Reference
Before it was over the doctor shaved the unshorn side, and (the major still in the room) completed his toilet in hot haste. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Clay's defeat was a sad blow to Norton, but he religiously kept his vow, and until the day of his death wore his hair unshorn. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The boozy unshorn wretch is seen hovering round quays as packets arrive, and tippling drains in inn bars where he gets credit. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Three of the Mongols were lamas, the rest were laymen, or "black men," so called from their unshorn black hair worn in a queue. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The streaming mane and tail of the unshorn, savage-looking, black horse, the dashing grace with which the young fellow in the shadowy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
His wild, unshorn mane streamed out from under his steel cap like a tattered banner, a chance shaft had torn away his flowing kaffia. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
Cynic is pictured as unshorn, shirtless, barefoot, roam - ing from place to place, sleeping alone on the hard ground, dirty and in rags. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
I had not well got inside when I beheld Fitzgreene Halleck standing uncovered, with reverential attitude, among the crowd of unshorn and unwashed worshippers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Across the aisle sat two priests, unshaven and unshorn, in wide black hats, their long, greasy black hair falling over the shoulders of their dirty gray gowns. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
His clothes, torn to tatters, his unshorn beard and long, dishevelled, hair, blood-shot eyes, and haggard countenance, betokened the extremity of anguish and want. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The cowardly and sluggish, only, remained unshorn. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
I feel unbathed and unshorn, even though I'm neither. From Wordnik.com. [Poppy Mom] Reference
The others are Kesh (unshorn hair), Kara, Kanga (comb) and Kacha (special underwear). From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The others are Kara (a steel bangle), Kesh (unshorn hair), Kanga (a comb) and Kacha (special underwear). From Wordnik.com. [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference
Nevertheless, after completing the program, he was told that he must remove his turbans and cut his unshorn hair to begin active duty. From Wordnik.com. [Shakesville] Reference
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