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  • At a few minutes before 10, the markets manager, a twinkle-eyed, balding, gray-mustached man who had let us roam around the selling area, suggested that we get back behind the chains so we wouldnt get trampled when he blew his whistle.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • At a few minutes before 10, the markets manager, a twinkle-eyed, balding, gray-mustached man who had let us roam around the selling area, suggested that we get back behind the chains so we wouldnt get trampled when he blew his whistle.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • "I'm the warden," said one of the two newcomers, a gray-mustached, keen-eyed man.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • Many a gray-mustached veteran in Paris leads the german.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Garnon's son, Girzon, and the gray-mustached Nirzav of Shonna, walked on his left; Dallona of Hadron and Dr. Harnosh of Hosh on his right.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • He was a big man, gray-mustached, with hair a grizzled red, and with blue eyes set in a florid face.

    Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • A full-bodied, gray-headed, gray-mustached man sat in his shirt-sleeves behind a great table, writing with a very black pencil in a large sprawling hand.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • He was already within fifty feet of the platform on which the gray-mustached and stern-faced veteran of the civil war was impatiently marching up and down.

    The Flag Homer Greene 1896

  • He was panting when he reached his placid, gray-mustached chief, and could only gasp out:

    Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888

  • Middle-aged matrons and gray-mustached officers smiled in anticipation of seeing their rosebud daughters, on beautiful horses, admired and applauded of all.

    Betty at Fort Blizzard Molly Elliot Seawell 1888

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