Dames and thrifty greybeards dread Lest you turn a stripling's head; Poor young brides are in dismay Lest you sigh their lords away.
Archer and his associates had agreed to stay the last in the schoolroom; and as soon as the Greybeards were gone out to bed, he, as the signal, was to shut and lock one door, Townsend the other.
It's a pity that the king of the Greybeardsis not here to admire me.
It was a friendship in foolery as we are told by the dedication of Greybeards at Play: He was through boyhood's storm and shower My best my nearest friend, We wore one hat, smoked one cigar One standing at each end.
I know nothing about drawing, but anyone may know how brilliant are the illustrations to Greybeards at Play or Biography for Beginners, and later to Mr. Belloc's novels.
The articles, in the Speaker especially, were attracting attention and Greybeards at Play had a considerable success.
The book for Nutt [Greybeards at Play], which has reached its worst stage, that of polishing up for the eye of Nutt, instead of merely rejoicing in the eye of God.
Lest Heaven be for the greybeards hoary, GOD, who made boys for His delight, Goes in earth's hour of grief and glory, And calls the boys in from the night.
Thither they came--wanton lads and debauchedgreybeards whose greatest glory was gluttony, and whose pride it was to diversify the outraged banquet.
Time was when my men bore arms and my greybeards met in council; mistress of the world was I and lawgiver to mankind.
Greybeards at Play was, after all, merely an elaborate sneer at the boredom of a decade; the second book was a more definite attack upon some points of its creeds and an assertion of the principles which mattered most.
In Greybeards at Play, Chesterton took the bit between his teeth, and bolted faster than Edward Lear had ever done.
His first book of verses--after Greybeards at Play--The Wild Knight contained a bloodthirsty poem about the Battle of Gibeon, written with strict adhesion to the spirit of the Old Testament.
Here we come with our little banner, eight of us all told, seven greybeards with a young standard-bearer.
Hermine was already staying with friends in Aarau, for her father rewarded her perfect housekeeping by taking her with him on all his jaunts; and more than once she had adorned the joyful circle of greybeards like a rosy hyacinth.
Also do but see how the greybeards of our own day speak of them, being no longer blinded by desire: this alderman, to wit.
Why, all the old greasy greybeards that lie at our inn do kiss us chambermaids; faugh!
Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth?
By the thousand and ten thousand--men and women, greybeards and children, we went to meet the crown.
The soldiers of the local counts looked like our greybeards and how they, while the dancers turned, strained to listen to events in the fortress we had no inkling of.
Ah, what mockery lurked in those words we read together in the shadow of your beloved trees, while your heart lay in my hands fluttering like a captive bird: So let us live and love till life be out, And let the greybeards wag and flout.
So may we live and love, till life be out, And let the greybeards wag and flout.
Neither was there sound or sign of life within the rocky jail, so far as watchful eyes and ears could learn; while the cackle of the greybeards some fifty yards behind me resembled a drone of bagpipes enlivened by a cherry-clapper.
Even the most fascinating of greybeards might have found this crisis a little too much for him?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greybeards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
