These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows.

"I can't imagine you with a beard," she finally said.

In his eyes the beard was a symbol of the old regime, and as such it must be removed.

On the importance attached to the beard, see Ency.

Their opinion and practice will be best represented in the words of one of their early teachers (quoted by Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 63): "When thou art alone in thy cell shut thy door, and seat thyself in a corner; raise thy mind above all things vain and transitory; recline thy beard and chin on thy breast; turn thine eyes and thy thought towards the middle of thy belly, the region of the navel (6j4 aXos); and search the place of the heart, the seat of the soul.

Their opinion and practice will be best represented in the words of one of their early teachers (quoted by Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 63): "When thou art alone in thy cell shut thy door, and seat thyself in a corner; raise thy mind above all things vain and transitory; recline thy beard and chin on thy breast; turn thine eyes and thy thought towards the middle of thy belly, the region of the navel (6j4 aXos); and search the place of the heart, the seat of the soul.

The Rajput wears a full beard and whiskers, usually parted in the middle.

The Rajput wears a full beard and whiskers, usually parted in the middle.

"I suppose so," he said, "and the full beard, no doubt."

During their travels the beard was allowed to grow, and they prepared for departure by confession and communion.

The beard is frequently dyed with henna and indigo for much the same reasons as in Europe by elderly men; this is entirely optional.

His servant was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown.

His thin face with its short, thick black beard looked angry.

"He should pay folks off properly," a thin workingman, with frowning brows and a straggly beard, was saying.

Paule, as of "middle stature, strong and well shaped, of a grave countenance and brown complexion, black hair and eyes, his beard neither long nor thick."

The orthodox Conservatives and some democrats who were jealous of his influence, while afraid to beard the great statesman himself, combined to assail his nearest friends.

Aubrey describes him as "of a very fair, clear sanguine complexion, with a long beard as white as milk - a very handsome man - tall and slender.

Some curious distance-phenomena connected with electric sparks were observed in 1875 by Edison (who referred them to a supposed new " aetheric force "), and confirmed by Beard, S.

The beard is sparse, and, with the exception of the moustache, which is sometimes worn, especially in central Tibet, it is plucked out with tweezers.

The beard is parted in the middle and carried up each side of the face to the top of the head.