The new-comer, who, from the show of whisker at the side of his face and the tone of authority in which he spoke, seemed to be one of the masters, was tall and muscular, with the bronze of a season's cricketing still upon his cheeks and neck.

It merely fixed itself as one sees the face of a watching cat fix itself, when the longed for mouse shows a whisker.

Moreover, because this was France, where one may affect a whisker without losing face, he neglected his razors; and though this was not his first thought, a fair disguise it proved.

"If we are to perpetrate this outrage at all," insisted Bundy, pulling in calculation at his little chin-whisker, "let us do it thoroughly.

old Chin Whisker does go on the prod.

But I'm gonna get old Chin Whisker out o' there, and you can stick a pin in that.

You wanna remember ol' Chin Whisker ain't the only hoss yo're trying to ride.

But even if we can get old Chin Whisker drunk, the hand has gotta be quicker than the eye.

"He wears a horrid chin whisker now.

A chin whisker.

And, furthermore, he don't say anything a-tall about this Chin Whisker gent, who's old Dale or I'm Dutch.

Then there's Dale, this Chin Whisker party.

Here and there very small, thin dark curls strayed from under it, like the tendrils of a delicate vine; and nestling close to each ear was a little dark, downy crescent, which papa called her whisker when he was playfully inclined to excite her juvenile indignation.

Personally I don't care two pence if Mr. McKenna taxes them a guinea a whisker.

He walked about the place talking like a book, and when a fat monkey, wot was pretending to be asleep, got a bit o' Sam's whisker, he said it was on'y instink, and the animal had no wish to do 'im 'arm.

The Whisker continu'd for some time among us after the Expiration of Beards; but this is a Subject which I shall not here enter upon, having discussed it at large in a distinct Treatise, which I keep by me in Manuscript, upon the Mustachoe.

Who was more fit to control the country than a man who had breathed the atmosphere of State from childhood, and learnt history from the breast-plates, the swords, the cloaks, the wigs, and the side-whisker portraits of men whose very blood beat in his heart?

He ran to high colors, to wide whisker, to open pores; he had the saddle-leather skin common in Englishmen, rarer in Americans,never found in the Brahmin caste, oftener in the military and the commodores: observing people know what is meant; blow the seed-arrows from the white-kid-looking button which holds them on a dandelion-stalk, and the pricked-pincushion surface shows you what to look for.

Where the roads joined they passed Bishop Wright, who, with his hat off, turned to stare at them, and to pull at his fringe of whisker in seeming perplexity.

MAID O, Madam, never mind meI shall be back in the twinkling of a pig's whisker, as they say.

The cat's whisker, by H. C. Bailey.

The cat's whisker.

Then he scratched his left whisker with the stem of his churchwarden pipe and looked severely over at Mr. Tredgold.

The Whisker continu'd for some time among us after the Expiration of Beards; but this is a Subject which I shall not here enter upon, having discussed it at large in a distinct Treatise, which I keep by me in Manuscript, upon the Mustachoe.

And what a hair cutting and whisker trimming!