"There is no knowledge today," he said, one hand pulling on his long gray beard.
Dressed in black velvet, he was handsome and strong as a young Greek god, already with a good start on his beard.
Old John pulled a little harder on his beard, nodding and smiling.
Tears ran into the ice cream and Scotch on his beard.
He pulled on his beard and said, "If they don't start moving down again in five minutes, we'll have to get out of here.
God is a clear image, you can see every hair on His beard.
There would be time for the open road and the wind on his wild red beard.
Like a crumb on someone's beard that he hasn't noticed.
Then, in businesslike fashion, she went to work on his beard.
It means balancing on an ancient man's long beard, strung across the floor.