A burly man of 58 with a close-cropped white beard, he could stand in for Hemingway in a movie about his later life.

The entire lower half of his face was covered With a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard.

The king's close-cropped beard was spiderwebbed with grey hairs, and he had dropped two stone or more of weight.

A man's jaw, giving force and shape to the lustrous close-cropped beard.

A sad face behind that close-cropped beard, as well.

He wore a close-cropped beard, unusual in a close-shaven age.

He went bearded, a close-cropped beard such as soldiers favored.

Her clear blue eyes lit up when a suntanned man with a Roman nose and a close-cropped beard stepped into the bank.

He had short brown hair, a close-cropped brown beard, and steady gray-green eyes.

The sultan is an elegant figure with a close-cropped white beard.