Ibn Jubair is long dead; what we're really interested in, 'greybeard', is how long did it take you to walk to Makka, then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [altmuslim] Reference

Among others expected to run for the job are Mr Miliband's brother Ed, as well as his former cabinet colleague Ed Balls, with other contenders possibly including party "greybeard".    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They'd hush me, like a garrulous greybeard, chaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference

Kellman was a greybeard, at least as old as me, unarmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Free]

A greybeard was led on board for the Commander-in-Chief to bait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

A greybeard of our gin was incontinently opened and a tumbler in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

I will not leave a greybeard or a beggar, a day-old infant or a leper.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

"And thou'rt what, a greybeard with a stoop in his back?" she laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

This his adversary! — this poor old mangy greybeard, who stood blinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

Am I sensing some greybeard discomfort with the next level of user control?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Sidewiki: Danger « BuzzMachine] Reference

He found my youth more a matter of laughter than concern, it seemed. 'greybeard, are you?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROOF]

Gawain, like the greybeard beside him, was frankly dozing in a shaft of sunshine from a window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

Auld, 'as to bring your greybeard, I shall have pleasure in giving a toast to your new settlement.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference

Obama's first Treasury Sec. will be a greybeard, because the markets will need somebody they trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Rolls Out Economic Transition Advisers, Include Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin, Robert Reich] Reference

Then the greybeard opened his mouth, and said: ‘The kettle is boiling; we are expected at home.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violet Fairy Book] Reference

The greybeard with the marmoset face and leathern apron let us out at the red door: he had a history.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast] Reference

'Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast] Reference

Now just you dare to measure strength with me, old greybeard, and I warrant you you'll never eat garlic or black beans more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Now just you dare to measure strength with me, old greybeard, and I warrant you you'll never eat garlic or black beans any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

I thought: some Prince or other, a distinguished greybeard with an order on his coat, and three females, all extremely personable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference

The guard had stopped talking, and were all asleep and snoring round the tents, except one old greybeard, who was sitting up by the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

The old greybeard uttered no word, and when his companion tried to ask him the meaning of it all he felt that his voice died in his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violet Fairy Book] Reference

"Drive out, old greybeard, and wake the young couple!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference

The greybeard answered: "The men have struck work to-day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunger] Reference

But she was beginning to believe the old greybeard to be a bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Regiment] Reference

Netflix ran circles around the greybeard in the DVD-by-mail market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference

The greybeard moved uneasily in his seat; then he opened up new country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference

The utmost tenderness for this joyous Walsung speaks in the tones of the greybeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

"I'm the young, old guy," said second-year runner Jamall Lee, also a 23-year-old relative greybeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

"We're going to be as good as we allow ourselves to be," said Tallet, 32, the greybeard of the Toronto rotation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"Faith and troth, the young Haco speaks like a greybeard; he hath not lived in Rouen for nought," quoth Leofwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

My lord knew what danger lurked in those bright eyes, and like a prudent greybeard he took care not to fall into the snare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

The greybeard was obviously disconcerted at this new check to introductory conversation, but the defeat was only momentary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference

Today we have a new government report, written not by the usual committee of greybeard civil servants but by some woman off the telly.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs]

Finding that the cause of this punishment is an unpaid debt of fifty roubles, Nikita ransoms the greybeard, who straightway disappears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference