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Letter "B" » beard
«If the beard were all, goats could preach»
«Don't point that beard at me, it might go off»
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
beard, Continent, owner, the continent, venerable, virile, virility
«For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.»
«If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; / Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.»
«Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail»
«If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
«He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man»
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