It's a new wig, and new eyebrows, side-whiskers and beard to match. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Vanished Prince]
He was bareheaded, his white side-whiskers fluttering in the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
It was clicking its tongue and shaking its side-whiskers like a great overgrown hamster. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Ransome was a burly man with the heavy, fashionable side-whiskers, more grey than black. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
Cowperwood, Sr., was already plucking at his side-whiskers in a confused and troubled way. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Baron Blare had huge side-whiskers and a wide, horsey grin displaying large, uneven teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Somehow she had always expected him to be blond with a neatly clipped beard and side-whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
His rather showy side-whiskers seemed now like flags or ornaments of a better day that was gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
He still wore the delicate patches of side-whiskers which had been the uniform of bankers in 1870. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
She had black hair, brown eyes, and the longest, curliest side-whiskers any of them had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Doom Brigade]
Auger, remembering the barmaid and her side-whiskers, expressed a hope that no one would get hurt. From Wordnik.com. [The Doom Brigade]
He was a pathetic figure with his thin legs and body, his gray hair, and his snow-white side-whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
The Guards wore side-whiskers and moustaches, ear-rings and powdered pigtails as marks of their prowess. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
The storekeeper was a tall, portly man, with a gray mustache and side-whiskers, and a high bald forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Black Peter.] Reference
English diplomat, bald, with long, gray side-whiskers and shaven lip and chin, and scrupulously well dressed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Are you Georsh's saunt?" he inquired of a tall man with white side-whiskers and garbed in ministerial black. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
The general pulls his side-whiskers, looks wise, and tells his adjutant to look over it, and, if correct, sign it. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
His gray eyebrows and gray hair looked rather shaggy and disheveled, and his side-whiskers anything but decorative. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
He wore a set of lush, brown side-whiskers, which tended to make his narrow face look pinched when he wasn't smiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic Fringe]
He was no doubt aware of the resemblance and did his best to foster it: he had even grown side-whiskers for the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Montmartre]
With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Empty House] Reference
The pictures hanging everywhere, portraits of gentlemen with side-whiskers and very high starched collars, also spoke of a bygone era. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and Monsieur Charles]
Ransome was a man of fine presence, bulk and side-whiskers and all; Hornblower had not really appreciated the fact at their first meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
He was tryin 'to raise side-whiskers, and had on a striped tie. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Farm-Rhymes] Reference
He was one of the two who wore side-whiskers and a habitual Prince. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man] Reference
Englishman without side-whiskers as a fire without a big backlog; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Mr. Selby, with his red face and fluffy side-whiskers, had Maude upon his arm. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
I am sorry to say that he had a red face, a shaven chin, and long side-whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Then he hastily put them on, adding some side-whiskers, which he had brought with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploits of Elaine] Reference
His hair was sandy, and he had reddish side-whiskers, -- the kind called "side-boards.". From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Hoppergrass] Reference
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