While feeling for the whisker that he anxiously expected, Fledgeby underwent remarkable fluctuations of spirits, ranging along the whole scale from confidence to despair.
I suppose the current quid of pan suparee is temporarily stowed away under that swelling in the left cheek, where the fierce black patch of whisker grows.
Some Mahrattas put rao after their names and treat themselves with much respect, especially if they can grow a little island of whisker on each cheek and run the moustache into it.
Saying which, Mr. Brimberly bowed and went from the room with one hand still clutching his whisker very much as though he had taken himself into custody and were leading himself out.
Mr. Brimberly coughed and touched a whiskerwith dubious finger.
George, and letting go his whisker he fell back a step, staring down at me as if he had never seen me before in all his life.
George feebly, and groped for his short, crisp-curling whisker with fumbling fingers.
Surely this was an innocent enough question, but little Hamlyn went red from the edge of his clipped whisker on the right to the edge of his mathematically equal whisker on the left.
Seraphin's suit was still new, and it was evident that he had dressed carefully his twin wisps of whisker in honor of Cartaret's celebration.
Then, regaining the conquest over self, he put his lips so close to the American's ear that the Frenchman's wagging wisps of whisker tickled his auditor's cheek.
The boy answered that he felt no ill effects; whereat Crouch laughed, and slapped Whisker on the back.
Though there was no necessity to explain to sea-faring men exactly what had happened, Captain Whisker seized the opportunity to speak words of courage to his men.
The "Kitty McQuaire" proved herself to be all that Whisker had said.
Though it was still exceedingly early in the morning Captain Whisker was up, digging furiously in his garden, with a blackened pipe between his lips.
She had been a good craft in her time, as Captain Whisker himself could testify; and she went down into the depths gently and silently, as if she welcomed an eternity of rest.
Captain Whisker drew himself up to his full height and puffed out both his cheeks, at the same time opening his blue eyes so widely that they resembled those of an enormous doll.
Captain Whisker soon proved himself no less capable a seaman than Captain Crouch.
Secondly, though Crouch, Jimmy and Whisker were all armed with revolvers, they had no weapon that was of the slightest value at a range beyond a hundred yards.
Whilst Crouch was so employed, Captain Whisker gave his final instructions.
Presently they caught sight of the coast, and Whisker recognized at once the white cliffs of Flamborough Head.
Whisker was the first to recognize the danger, and ordered all on board to stand by the hand-pump, which was the only means they had of bailing the ship.
Crouch was small and wizened; Whisker broad, florid and colossal.
The Squire set the thumb and forefinger of each hand into a whisker fluff and twisted a couple of spills, squinting at them.
Captain Joppa Bunting, addressing me, fixedly smiling, and passing his fingers through a whisker as he spoke.
He lay back in his chair, stroking first one whisker and then the other, with his eyes thoughtfully surveying the upper deck, at which he smiled as though elated by some fine happy fancies.
When I turned to ask the Captain a question about these books, I found him staring at her profile out of the corner of his eyes, while with his right hand he stroked his whisker meditatively.
Not that he cared half the clip of a whisker for all the shrimps that ever bearded the sea, only that he liked to seem to love them, to keep Mary at work for him.
Beard has stood alone for all these things, and whisker has in its time signified what we now call moustache, as in the case of Robinson Crusoe's great pair of "Turkish whiskers.
Early in the 19th century the bucks began to show a patch of whisker beside the ear, and the soldier's moustache became a common sight.
When he paused and fingered his whisker she gasped excitedly.
Anything might be expected of a man with a chin whisker which some one, with more imagination than restraint, had described as an "attenuated shredded wheat biscuit seen through a glass darkly.
To those who had little sympathy with genius in its more alarming shapes, his fair chin whisker seemed an absurdity.
Surely this was an innocent enough question; but little Hamlyn went red from the edge of his clipped whisker on the right to the edge of his mathematically equal whisker on the left.
While thus engaged, he caressed with his right hand the very small scrap of whisker that grew on his right cheek.
With the exception of a small scrap of whisker on each cheek, a scar over the right eye, and a certain air of manliness, there was little change in my old comrade.
She gathered the three remaining ones together, and fed them and licked them all over tenderly with soft whisker kisses.
The White Doe approached him beseechingly and caressed him with a whisker kiss; but he only stared horror-stricken at her wonderful pink eyes, beat his fore paws once or twice in surprise and dismay, and scudded out of sight.
Even in running away, however, Whisker was perverse, for he had not gone far when he suddenly stopped.
Only once,' it said; 'the end of the twelfth hair of my top left whisker - I feel the place still in damp weather.
Summoned to the Palace at nine o'clock, he found the King nursing a bent whisker and in the very vilest of tempers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whisker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ace; beard; bristle; hair; hairbreadth
