What is "weatherbeaten"

Usage examples of "weatherbeaten".

His head was down and his cheekbones were showing white through his weatherbeaten skin.

The stable hands leading them all seemed to be small weatherbeaten men with unshaven chins and layers of uncoordinated clothes.

But there was a breathtaking mask mounted above the bed, an armadillo-faced man with a great gaping mouth, and next to the chest of drawers was a weatherbeaten but extraordinary helmet mask, a long-nosed man with an owl for one ear and a coyote for another, and over the bed was a double mask, owl and pig, that was finer than anything he had seen in any museum.

Quentin paused, chewing his lower lip, swivelling his head in her direction, the wintry sunlight striking on his lids and giving him the look of a weatherbeaten stone statue with carved eyes.

They were big, weatherbeaten local patrolmen, and Edgar knew them well.

There was a diagonal line across his forehead separating white skin from his deeply weatherbeaten face.

It came down from two hundred yards to one hundred, and then began to diminish so that he could see the scarred and weatherbeaten details of the shack.

Benson was an ugly little weatherbeaten town with a population of around two thousand and five times as many saloons as churches.

He had the bowlegged stance, battered skipper’s cap, corncob pipe, weatherbeaten face, and hyperdeveloped tattooed forearms of a fisherman—but the sparkling wise eyes and dreamy closed-lipped smile of a serious acidhead.

He had the bowlegged stance, battered skipper's cap, corncob pipe, weatherbeaten face, and hyperdeveloped tattooed forearms of a fisherman-but the sparkling wise eyes and dreamy closed-lipped smile of a serious acidhead.

MacNeill's weatherbeaten face mitched slightly with amusement, but he bo-,ved gravely and asked after her health with no sign of embarrassment.

To look at me, with my old trowsers tucked up above my knees, my ragged jacket, and weatherbeaten cap.

There were two big, bearded, weatherbeaten fellows whose looks he did not like, but he took them on as labourers none the less, and only at the end of the day had them stopped as they would have left the site, and found them swathed in cords and leather thongs from his stores.

He was a lean, weatherbeaten man in his early thirties: not a fellow who'd owned an estate full of serfs before the war, surely, but not one who'd take kindly to anyone who told him he couldn't dream of acquiring such an estate one day, either.