244 examples of grizzled in sentences

A man with a round red face and a bald pate whose curly fringe of grizzled, reddish hair made him look like a clown in a pantomime, motioned them with a surly thumb toward the back of the house, where clattering preparations for supper were audible and odoriferous.

I don't think she's a safe topic for susceptible young chaps like you and me," the grizzled old Scotchman concluded with a chuckle.

"When I went to see him I found a grizzled old fellow of about sixty, who had been most of his life in the north, and when I found he had known Jim, and had trapped with him on the Liard River, and knew what a splendid fellow

" "So I supposed," growled the grizzled old man, who sat at a big desk upon which was piled many flimsies.

"Gawd A'mighty," cried a grizzled longshoreman, who might have sailed with Drake or Hawkinsas no doubt his forbears had done"look to the list of un!

He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.

The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and an army of women and children at his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern-politicians.

He was a little weazened man of middle age, with a short grizzled beard.

[Footnote 14 Lyart = grizzled.

Later he endeavored to distract himself from his dreary thoughts by discoursing with his neighbor on the veranda, a tall, grizzled, soldierly looking gentleman with shrewd but kind eyes and the brow of a scholar.

He sat down heavily and looked at Philip Alston in perplexity, rubbing his great shock of rough grizzled hair the wrong way as he always did when worried.

He had heavy, grizzled brows and rather quiet eyes, a man of deep passions and great resolve.

The primitive that lies just under the skin in all men was in the ascendancy; and there was little indeed to distinguish him from the hunter of long ago, a grizzled savage at the edge of the ice who chased the mammoth and wild pony, knowing no home but the forest and no gentleness unknown to the wolf that ran at his heels....

The wolf met him at his first leap, springing with noble courage at his grizzled throat; and the bear paused in his charge to strike him away.

The head was bald on its crown; but around either ear was a mass of grizzled hair, pomatumed and combed into formal military bristles.

But the ex-governor shook his grizzled head.

He wore neither wig nor powder, but Nature had put her own silvering upon his thick grizzled locks, and the thousand puckers which clustered round the edges of his eyes, or drew at the corners of his mouth, gave a set gravity to his face which needed no device of the barber to increase it.

There was McTavish of Rupert's House, a three days' journey to the northeast; Rand of Fort Albany, a week's travel to the northwest; Mault of Fort George, ten days beyond either, all grizzled in the Company's service.

In the corner of the fire they two had whispered one to the otherthe already grizzled traveller of the silent land, the fresh, brave north-maiden.

Gorged from some gory carcass, on he stalked At eve towards his lair; his grizzled mane, Shoulders, and grim glad visage, all adrip With carnage; and he licked his bearded lips.

Its mark was a grizzled little old man with a very small face and very big grey eyes, who had been standing listlessly at one of the laboratory windows until the discussion caught him.

His grizzled face seemed smaller and his big grey eyes larger than usual.

" He took him aside and talked very earnestly with him in French for a quarter of an hour, gesticulating with his hands, and explaining something, while the Major nodded his old grizzled head from time to time.

Close at his heels followed Trapper Conway: grizzled, parchment-faced veteran, who alone had followed the Missouri to its source and, stranger to relate, had alone returned with his scalp.

For a second, and a second only, he sat so, the white moonlight drawing clear every line of his grizzled face, his stocky figure.

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