Nic, please don't go back to that ... whiskerless ... thing on your head. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorcerer’s Apprentice International Movie Trailer | /Film] Reference
"In fact, you look very much like his pictures, -- as much as a gray, bald-headed, whiskerless man could look like a black-bearded one.". From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
(Mr Towlinson is whiskerless himself), who has been hired to accompany the happy pair to Paris, and who is busy packing the new chariot. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
His face was whiskerless; his eyes gray; his cheek-bones a little higher than the average; his hair auburn; his nose not Grecian -- or Roman -- but still impressive: his air one of quiet dignity, mingled with youthful joyance and mirthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Fortunately, we remembered in time that this portrait-gentleman, old as he was, did not quite reach back to the days of those first settlers; and that he had lived to see the great change of fashion (in the reign of Charles II) that made Englishmen for generations whiskerless and bewigged. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
"We're not strong on ancestry out West," he rubbed his whiskerless chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference
"Hullo," said he, sticking his glass in his eye and looking at Ann. "What makes the whiskerless one so cheerful?". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonderful Bed] Reference
Under that, again, is a girl in a garden-chair; a young man, whiskerless, with wavy hair, kneels and kisses her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot] Reference
He told himself of the great resolution to which he had come on that famous morning when he awoke to find himself whiskerless. From Wordnik.com. [Once on a Time] Reference
In spite of the whiskerless cheeks, the elaborate black mark, in spite of the strange likeness to his brother, Jan recognised the features, not of. From Wordnik.com. [Verner's Pride] Reference
Why, as the man passed him, he turned his face full on Tynn; disclosing the features, the white, whiskerless cheek, with the black mark upon it, of. From Wordnik.com. [Verner's Pride] Reference
Mr. Cuming Walters connects the figure of the whiskerless young man kneeling to a girl in a garden seat, with the whiskered Jasper's proposal to Rosa in a garden seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot] Reference
How, I wonder, can the merchant of today hope to catch the eye of the dapper, moustachioed man, if the ersatz humans presenting the various ensembles remain whiskerless?. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis] Reference
You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie, for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference
SECURE as I tried to feel in my change of costume, my cropped hair, and my whiskerless cheeks, I kept well away from the coach-window, when the dinner at the inn was over and the passengers were called to take their places again. From Wordnik.com. [A Rogue's Life] Reference
Bill Carter would pretend to be very drunk, and hairless and whiskerless as he was, his face terribly scarred by flames of alcohol that almost consumed his life, sauntered about head-quarters, reciting criticisms he heard in bar-rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Fagots from the campfire,] Reference
Captain Picard seems to have beamed down from an unpaid internship on the Starship Enterprise, and they're all watching a whiskerless, barely-out-of-his-30s Gandalf - who's being asked to work a little interpretive magic with the opening line of. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Again, the same whiskerless young man, bounding up the spiral staircase in daylight, and wildly pointing upwards, is taken by Mr. Cuming Walters to represent Jasper climbing the staircase to reconnoitre, at night, with a lantern, and, of course, with black whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot] Reference
Municipality, pretending to be Constitutional, keeps mostly quiet; not so the Daughter Society, the five thousand adult male Patriots of the place, still less the five thousand female: not so the young, whiskered or whiskerless, four-generation Noblesse in epaulettes; the grim Patriot. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Tall and broad-chested, with a pale, whiskerless face, aquiline nose, clear, cold gray eyes, thick mustache, and black hair, worn as closely cropped as if he had lately emerged from Coldbath Fields or Millbank prison, he formed a striking contrast to the yellow-whiskered young ensign who had accompanied him. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference
Dr. Quint's threatened mustaches bristled as he fled before the elephantine charge of Professor Boomly -- once again around my desk, then out into the hall, where I heard the door of his office slam, and Boomly, gasping, panting, breathing vengeance outside, and vowing to leave Quint quite whiskerless when he caught him. From Wordnik.com. [Police!!!] Reference
Behold, then, Mr. Mclntyre absent; behold all male humans absent save myself and a couple of sable eunuchs, whose smooth, whiskerless faces betray inward amusement at the extreme novelty of the situation, and we all alone between the high brick walls that encircle the secrecy of an inner court -- and yet not all alone, fortell it in whispers -- some half-dozen shrouded female forms are clustered together in one corner. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
He wiped his whiskerless face and looked down. From Wordnik.com. [‘Then We Came to the End’: Why an office farce deserved to be a National Book Award finalist « The Retort] Reference
Towlinson is whiskerless himself), who has been hired to accompany the happy pair to Paris, and who is busy packing the new chariot. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
Pourquoi de diable n'arretez vous pas? "shouted the lieutenant to a yellow-looking man with whiskerless face, and thin gold rings in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"] Reference
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