Then he considered his beard and, seeing that the white hairs in it covered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.
Knowest thou not that black is the ornament of youth and that, when hoariness descendeth upon the head, delights pass away and the hour of death draweth in sight?
FN#94] May He have mercy on him who saith: Look thou thy hoariness preserve from aught that may it stain, For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and fain.
Then he looked at his beard and seeing that the white hairs in it outnumbered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.
Name from senex, an old man, alluding to the hoariness of many species, or to the white hairs of the pappus.
Hoariness is dominant to glabrousness; that is to say, there is a definite factor which can turn the glabrous into a hoary plant when it is present.
Hence hoariness depends upon three separate factors, and a stock cannot be hoary unless {55} it contains the hoary factor in addition to the two colour factors.
She was old--but hers was the sublimity of age without its infirmity, the hoariness of winter without its chillness.
Then she turned and saw within the chamber an old man, handsome in his hoariness and stately of semblance, who was dancing in goodly and winning wise, a dance whose like none might dance.
Here there met them an old man, handsome in his hoariness and of a venerable bearing and a dignified, agreeable of aspect and apparel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoariness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: albinism; albino; fairness; lightness; milkiness; paleness; silver; white
