Word: bearding
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...dock a Sūreté officer pointed to a large crate, ordered dockers to break it open. Inside the crate was an old grey Ford automobile. Inside the Ford, smiling and blinking away tears caused by the sunlight, sat an emaciated man with a long beard...
...Little Mouth. The artist began the series eight months ago with a picture of his wife as a little girl. "It's nice," their friends said, "but you could never paint one of a bearded man as a boy." Vertès accepted the challenge, sat down to paint a juvenile Bernard Shaw. "When an Englishman or an Irishman has a beard," he figured, "there must be a reason. I looked very well at grown-up photographs of Shaw, and I found his bad little mouth and sharp little chin. I painted him at the age of twelve...
...himself, who was a willing model for his many artist friends. Hearing that Renoir had always wanted to paint a bullfighter, Vollard had a gold-embroidered toreador suit made to his own measure, turned up at Renoir's studio in costume. He even offered to shave off his beard, but Renoir said that would be unnecessary: "You don't suppose you would be taken for a real torero, if you did? All I ask of you is not to go to sleep while you are sitting...
Once upon a time there were 13 clocks that wouldn't run. A cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in search of a kitten to tear apart or a handsome young prince to feed to his geese...
...despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...