What is "graybeards"

Usage examples of "graybeards".

In silence the graybeards propped their chins on their staffs and watched the two move on.

We were not the moping, complaining graybeards that many might suppose we must have been.

For seven weeks she had wrestled with the Cape Horn graybeards, and in return been buffeted and smashed by them.

This pink and white flag, let us salute it as it passes, old graybeards that we are.

Hamid-Jones: that fresh-faced youngster had probably been born before most of the graybeards in the audience.

The graybeards, after a perfunctory murmur, resumed their conversations.