Shaggy beards sprouted from their lined cheeks, and their eyes burned with fever.

Madarosis had left him completely hairless, so that neither beard nor eyebrows sprouted from his flesh; he was also toothless.

For young men, it is often a motivation; start early enough and a full, gentlemanly beard will sprout long before college.

His unkempt beard had sprouted fairer than his hair.

His fair beard, scraped off in preparation for the trip, had already sprouted again, unevenly.

But now he could feel that his beard had sprouted into a thick stubble, and he saw the same on other faces.

Even their beards, trimmed in the latest style worn by the Springers, had sprouted in the meantime.

He felt like some old soldier of his father's generation heartening a recruit whose beard hadn't fully sprouted.

It felt like crushed vinyl, and his beard was sprouting.

His beard was sprouting, a glimmer of red stubble sparked with silver in the lantern light.