The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes.

His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face.

1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island, Boys' Life, page 44,
But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.

"Very hairy, beardy, toothy kinds of heads," said Ardan. "I remember them, and they used to get hairier and beardier and toothier every second day.

The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.

The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.

His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’

Seven such social groups were present at the two festivals: Beardies; Jammers; Irish Fiddlers; Poets; Dancers; Campers an Vanners.[…]The Beardies are men, mainly heavily bearded; described by David as ‘the traditionalists and fundamentalists of the folk scene’ who are often heads of folk club[s], the older generation and the highly respected (Figure 15.1).

The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

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