What is "grizzled"

Usage examples of "grizzled".

A runty, bowlegged man with a short grizzled beard emerged, carrying a mess of dirty linens and a bucket with a closed lid.

The grizzled head of the Chief Fire Controlman appeared from behind the calculator.

This time he recognized Eryon at their head, by the silver in his grizzled beard and the proud way he held his shoulders.

The master bowyer, a stern, grizzled man, was instructing an apprentice in the finer points of fletching as they came in.

He had not shaved yet this morning, and graying stubble grizzled his chin.

I, with my short grizzled hair sticking up straight, and Sir Henry with his yellow locks, which were getting rather long, were rather a contrast, especially as I am thin, and short, and dark, weighing only nine stone and a half, and Sir Henry is tall, and broad, and fair, and weighs fifteen.

Where were the longbeards, the grizzled old men who had manned the rail at LaFata?

Angel of Leaky Outhouses up there, and we got the Angel of Overgrazed Pastures and the Angel of Always Being Broke up there--why, we got so many offbeat, grizzled angels floating around over this little town that sometimes I get claustrophobia from all their wing rustling--from them that has any feathers left in their wings, that is.

He used the excuse of job-hunting to meet the Schreiner safari manager, a grizzled professorial fellow named Jess Marrow whose degrees in veterinary medicine gave him enviable job security.

Fireball grown taller, solider and grizzled, the jaw firmed and controlled, the voice more powerful and sure.

The grizzled witch doctor rustled his necklaces with his fingers, and his eyes looked beyond Tembu George in a far away, unseeing stare.

He was a spare, thin, strongly made man, with spare light brown hair, hardly yet grizzled, with small grey whiskers, clear eyes, bushy eyebrows, with a long ugly nose, on which young barristers had been heard to declare that you might hang a small kettle, and with considerable vehemence of talk when he was opposed in argument.

Kemoc shook his grizzled head ponderously, looking more bearlike than usual, and motioned him to silence.

He was a burlier version of his son, still handsome, but with coarser features and thick hair grizzled with gray.

At the time the islanders left Laerg there were only five men left between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, and remembering those long, almost ape-like arms, those huge hands and the enormous breadth of his shoulders, I could well imagine the old devil swinging down the face of a thousand-foot cliff, his grizzled beard glistening with the vapour that swirled about him as he sought some almost invisible ledge where the guillemots or solan geese were nesting.