"Graybeard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Oh, pale and shivering graybeard!" cried the king. "Come, warm your vitals with this cup of spiced ale. Be not afraid. Sit here at my side in the light of ...
— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton
... ago even the anthropologist seemed satisfied with the approximation of childhood and old age,—one glance at the babe in the cradle, one look at the graybeard on his deathbed, gave all the knowledge desired or sought for. Man, big, burly, healthy, omniscient, was the subject of all investigation. But now a change has come over the face of things. As did that great teacher of old, so, in our day, has one of the ministers of science "called ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... Nor longer tarried; "King Graybeard his honor'll avenge one day," Is Ring heard to say, When to him the curt ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner
... their bread and porridge without even a mumbled "Spassiba"—thanks—and shouldered each other for seats at the tables. Then came a blind old man led by his two grandsons. His thanks were pathetically profuse. Next another graybeard, carrying an ivory cane and wearing a handsome fur coat, the only indications of his recent high station in provincial society except the unmistakable reserve and dignity of gentility. After him was a handsome Lett, who had been a station agent in Courland till his station was dynamited in ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various
... to be a graybeard to recall the time when every county-town in New England had, because it needs must have, its first rate lawyer, its distinguished surgeon, its comprehensive business-man,—and when a fixed and unchanging population gave to our villages a more solid and a more elegant air than they ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 • Various
... composed of men of many nationalities, was a French Canadian, who had been murdered by his companions because, while robbing a plantation in the interior,—they had frequently been known to cross the desert and the mountains,—he had forborne to kill an old man because as the trembling graybeard looked up at him he had reminded him of his father. Some of the leading demons of the band determined that they could not have such a fool as this for their leader, and he ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton
... eagerly, anxiously, seeking corroboration, looking to him for encouragement with touching wistfulness, as if he had been a graybeard and an old and trusted friend, rather than a mere youth in years, and an acquaintance of only a ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... Graybeard, you learned when a boy About the Wooden Horse of Troy; And you assume these steeds to be The ...
— Children of Our Town • Carolyn Wells
... "O graybeard pale! Come warm thee with this cup of ale." The foaming draught the old man quaffed, The noisy guests looked on and laughed. Dead ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... rode across the soil of a poor man, whose family numbered seven heads, and the man had seven beds of millet. Four beds he laid waste, and three remained. Someone ran with the news to the old graybeard and said: "You are ruined. Go at once to your field, for before night he will ...
— Armenian Literature • Anonymous
... the second Caliph." At this, Ja'afar and Masrur laughed, and the three, donning merchants' habits, went forth by a secret pastern and made their way through the city, in great glee, till they came to the Tigris, where they found the graybeard sitting and awaiting them. They embarked with him in the boat and hardly had they sat down before up came the mock Caliph's barge; and, when they looked at it attentively, they saw therein two hundred Mamelukes other than those of the previous ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... pageant survived; there fell upon him the desire to see some of the places; such a desire, if it is not gratified, dies away into a feeble spark—but it can always be blown again into a flame. This year the chance came to the boy, now a graybeard, to see these places; and the spark flared up again, ...
— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant
... when Congress convened in the morning, the old bell-man had been in the steeple. He had placed a boy at the door below, to give him notice when the announcement should be made. As hour succeeded hour, the graybeard shook his head, and said, "They will never do it! they will never do it!" Suddenly a loud shout came up from below, and there stood the little blue-eyed boy clapping his hands, and shouting, "Ring! Ring!" Grasping the iron tongue of the old bell, backward and forward he hurled it a hundred times, ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... met over the scabbard, and as she freed herself a shred of her lace flounce clung to Tony's enchanted fingers. Looking after her, he saw she was on the arm of a pompous-looking graybeard in a long black gown and scarlet stockings, who, on perceiving the exchange of glances between the young people, drew the lady ...
— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... fellows loosened the rope about my ankles, and Peter waddling ahead, the graybeard gripping my arm, we climbed the steps, and entered the hall. A tall, slim negro, evidently a house-servant from his sleek appearance, eying me curiously, handed the little fellow a second lighted candle, and the three of us went ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... had not gone many steps when he met Mr. Gaffer Graybeard, a wise old mouse, and a ...
— Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors - For Young Folks • James Johonnot
... The graybeard slammed the door and laughed savagely. "You'll make no terms with the Black Caesar," he said. "This is the reign of the proletariat. The bourgeois must die! So ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... Scanted of time, and stinted by Weak Nature, That in foretimes saw jubilees of years, As by our Ancient History appears; Nay, which is more, even Silly Women then, Liv'd longer time than our grave Graybeard Men. ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... with his skinny hand: 'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, graybeard loon!' ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
... 'here we are, seven wise men, and one fair damsel—who, doubtless, is as wise as any graybeard of the company: here we are, I say, all bound on the same goodly enterprise. Methinks, now, it were not amiss that each of us declare what he proposes to do with the Great Carbuncle, provided he have the good hap to clutch it. What ...
— The Great Stone Face - And Other Tales Of The White Mountains • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... the banner! For our freedom fight! 'Neath the banner, 'neath the banner, Riflemen unite! Graybeard in the Storting Gives his vote for right and truth, Rifle-voice supporting Of our armd youth. Music runeful Ring out tuneful Bullets sent point-blank, Fiery coursing, Freedom forcing Way to royal rank; They from silent ...
— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... Amrou, what device avails the hand of death to stay? O brother of the brotherless, brother of all th' afflicted, say. Brother of En Numan, with thee lies an old man's anguish to allay, A graybeard slain, may God make fair his deeds upon the Reckoning-Day! Quoth Sherik, "On me be his warranty, may God assain the king!" So the Tai departed, after a term had been assigned ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... him into life and its light; She haunts the little one merry; The youth is inspired by her magic might; Her the graybeard cannot bury: When he finds at the grave his ended scope, On the grave ...
— Rampolli • George MacDonald
... after this conversation the cadi sent for Mahmoud and Mario, and with no less earnestness than Halima had unbosomed herself to Leonisa, the amorous graybeard opened his own to his two slaves, asking their advice as to what he should do to enjoy the Christian and cheat the Grand Signor, to whom she belonged, for he would sooner die a thousand deaths, than ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... districts have been hermetically sealed against communication, and the speed and thoroughness with which the occupation has been accomplished, will remain, I believe, the most amazing episode in the history of warfare," said the solemn graybeard, to whom I had been presented by Constance Grey. (If he had known that I was the assistant editor of The Mass, I doubt if this Mr. Poole-Smith would have consented to open his mouth in my presence. But my obscurity ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson
... the ancient Dovre mountains, and who possesses many castles built of rock and freestone, besides a gold mine, which is better than all, so it is thought, is coming with his two sons, who are both seeking a wife. The old goblin is a true-hearted, honest, old Norwegian graybeard; cheerful and straightforward. I knew him formerly, when we used to drink together to our good fellowship: he came here once to fetch his wife, she is dead now. She was the daughter of the king of the chalk-hills at Moen. They say he took his wife from chalk; I shall be delighted ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... won; For on the fourth day as I sat In the black coffin-shadow of a boat, The burning decks a-wash with lime-white sun, I saw the graybeard lookout swell his throat And utter forth a glad and bronze hurrah, "Land Ho!" he cried— We lined the windward side To cheer the washing palm ...
— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen
... understand it, myself. It's like a little girl straying into an experimental laboratory of high explosives and mixing the stuff around any old way and getting more powerful combinations than the graybeard chemists." ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London |
