Like tidy beards

Usage examples of trimmed.

It was fine cambric, trimmed with lacework, with the swan of House Courcel embroidered small in one corner.

The Illyrians trimmed the sails close and went to oars, jesting good-naturedly, and as the lead ship, we glided into the cool shade.

In white robes of state trimmed with purple-and-gold borders, he seemed more the ruler.

I had washed most of the dye from his hair at the Little Court, and trimmed the ends so that he looked somewhat presentable.

One-name foresters had felled select hardwoods the previous summer and trimmed them.

It was dark against the dazzling white of his ruffled cuff but clean, with nails neatly trimmed and given some care, out of character for an ordinary bondsman.

In the lengthening shadows of late afternoon, the schooner trimmed her sails and slipped cautiously along a string of small, swampy islands, little more than reefs choked with sand and crowded with cypress and occasional groups of palms.

He seized a small branch and with a knife trimmed it until it made a neat walking stick, and as he went along, he aimlessly swatted tufts of grass and hanging twigs.

Going aloft to rig the topsail was out of the question, so Ruark trimmed the ship on course and had Gaitlier lash the wheel in place.

The strangers were brightly dressed in tunics and capes trimmed with borders of red leaves and blue diamonds.

Tall, pointed both at the front and at the back, the mitre was made of a stiff white cloth and trimmed with thickly embroidered gold ribbons.

Helvidius limped over and threw a bloodied cape, trimmed with fabulous gold braid embroidery, over her shoulders.

She wore a fine silk tunic dyed a rich indigo and leather shoes trimmed with gold braid.

He himself had neatly trimmed dark hair, a smooth-shaven face, and bright black eyes.

Zinthys wore a different, but equally rich-looking velvet robe, trimmed in white fur around the shoulders.