34 collocations for bearded

" It was an awful thing to beard the lion in his denfor a new boy to face so great a personage as the football captain, and refuse point-blank to do as he was told.

I have beard their groanings,' &c.

And it was a young girl harassed with perplexities like these, whom he had permitted in his stead to beard the lioness.

Even Brigham, on one notable occasion, had thrilled him, when in the tabernacle he had bearded Brocchus and left him white and cowering before all the people, trembling for his life,Brocchus, the unworthy Associate Justice, who had derided their faith, insulted their prophet, and slandered their women.

When I first beard our mild and gently-mannered Carfax employ it as a vigorous word of command to a civilian in this small German village, I thought he had gone a little mad.

Octavius, you will beard me then, The elder consul and old Marius' friend; And these Italian freemen must be wrong'd.

[Footnote 2: Ariosto is here imitating Pulci, and bearding Dante.

Life had become insupportable; and back of my consent to make this experimental visit was a willingness to beard the detectives in their own den, regardless of consequences.

Lincoln, who had in 1854 gracefully yielded his justly won Senatorial honors to Trumbull, and who alone bearded Douglas in his own State throughout the whole anti-Nebraska struggle, with anything like a show of equal political courage and intellectual strength, was as inevitably the leader and choice of the Republicans.

How much more loudly must this proclamation have spoken in the audacity of having bearded the elite of their troops, and having beaten them in pitched battles!

Instead of bearding the Emperor in his capital he turned toward the Rhine where millions of Protestants were praying for his coming and where his army might find rest and abundance.

Hazing has "gone out" at Harwell, and so, when at about nine the two boys beard many footfalls outside their door, and when in response to West's loud "Come" five mysterious and muffled figures in black masks entered they were somewhat puzzled what to think.

To this proposal Henrich readily assented; for the sport was one of which he had beard his Indian friends speak with great pleasure, and he greatly wished to enjoy it.

Nor would I weary the reader with my doings in the Assembly, how I bearded more Governors than one, and disputed stoutly with His Majesty's Privy Council in London.

Mrs. Jimmie bearded Jimmie in his den long enough to ask him to see about our opera tickets at once.

Paul Anderson walked straight to his boarding-house and bearded his landlady.

Shall a rascal that farms his forty acres, pretend to beard the lord of the manor?

On a visit to the Bay of Plenty he bearded the man sitting unsuspecting among his partners in the piracy, and, after fiercely upbraiding him, shot him dead.

Already Jack had gone into one of his trances, as he does whenever there is a possibility of bearding a brand-new microbe in its den, whether it is in his own country or one beyond the seas.

I'll beard him 'mid a thousand myrmidons!

Open and beard the oysters, chop them, but not too small, and add them to the other ingredients.

My trusty and fearless young lieutenant here"he indicated Billy, who coughed in his hand and looked modestly out the window"is now about to beard Potts in his den and find out 'what of it.'

The love bearded their prejudices, and excited their envy.

He bearded the rebels in their mountain fastnesses, till they laid down their arms and fell at his feet.

The probability seems to be, that Dante was resolved, at all events, to take this opportunity of bearding some rumour.]

34 collocations for  bearded