27 examples of stubbly in sentences

Lusty Labour, with tired stoop, Levels low, at every swoop, Armfuls of ripe-coloured corn, Yellow as the hair of morn; And his helpers track him close, Laying it in even rows, On the furrow's stubbly ridge; Nearer to the poppied hedge.

" "Your experience was unusual, or why do men come back year after year?" "Did you ever hear of a thing called Hope?" They moved uneasily on their stools, and some rubbed stubbly chins with perplexed, uncertain fingers, and they all glowered at the speaker.

When they left Dick and Jones, the eager couriers tore through the marshy lowlands, the stubbly thickets and treacherous quagmires, poor Barney, panting and groaning in his docile desire to keep up with his leader, as he had done often in boyish bravado.

She chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mile of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's school.

"I ain't fit to stay," hesitated Racey, rasping the back of his hand across his stubbly chin.

Now he nodded his head and grinned anew, and put up a satisfied hand and rubbed his stubbly chin.

" Dolan rasped a hand across his stubbly chin.

" Judge Dolan nodded and rasped a hand across his stubbly chin.

This, nature has denied them, for the hair on their faces is scanty and stubbly in the extreme.

The stubbly blond beard on his face did not conceal the deep tan painted there by weeks of exposure in the mountains; he had opened his shirt at the throat, exposing a neck darkened by sun and wind; his eyes were of a keen, searching blue-gray, and they quested the country ahead of him now with the joyous intentness of the hunter and the adventurer.

On one stretcher came a very pale, round-faced, little boy about twelve, with stubbly blond hair clipped short and an enchanting smile.

It was not far to the hedgeover the rail fence, across the stubbly meadow.

But she had left him, and was laughing with Peggy Blackton, who was showing her husband where he had missed a stubbly patch of beard on his cheek.

When Peggy Blackton led her husband to the stair, and drove him up to shave off the stubbly patch, Joanne found the opportunity to whisper to him: "You are rude, John Aldous!

Augustus stood biting the ends of his stubbly mustache.

It was like sunrise upon his grey and stubbly countenance, where three days' growth of beard had thriven in the soil of the guard-room.

He had a bullet-shaped head, with fine, soft, reddish brown hair; a round, stubbly beard shot with gray; and small, beady eyes set close together.

This stubbly slope was where he and his grandfather had headed the deer: it was covered with hundreds of dirty, yellow tents now.

" It struck me as I looked at him that he was just the sort of man that you would expect to hear of as having been in queer placesa sort of gnarled and stubbly man, with a wealth of seams and wrinkles about his face and what could be seen of his neck, and much grizzled hair, and an eyeonly one being visiblethat looked as if it had been on the watch ever since he was born.

His inflamed eyes, stubbly beard and gaunt cheeks made him a caricature of the man he had been, ten days before.

"Now the points are these," he went on, counting on his thick stubbly fingers.

In front of the house was a field of thick stubbly grass where some lambs, I was going to say, but they were more like very small sheep.. were grazing.

His chin had a stubbly look.

Lucy and I call him Riquet a la Houppe, because he is just like the picture in Mademoiselle's book, with a great stubbly bunch of hair sticking out on one side, and though he walks a little lame, he can hop and skip like a grasshopper, faster than any of the boys, and leap up a wall in a moment, and grinoh most frightfully.

They drew blank in a wood above the first kill, but finally found after considerable delay along a stubbly stretch of ground bordering Baronmead, a large estate that the eldest Errol had just bought.

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