Don Pawolo smiled in his young scanty beard.

In Laravanglal, the distant southeastern land whence tin came, the people were the color of dark bread, and men grew beards scanty rather than luxuriant.

The old man pulled on his scanty white beard and said, "Many people carry old weapons, for they are often far more potent than those made today."

The man who had laughed had a round, smooth-skinned face and a pale scanty beard.

The spittle dribbled from its chinless mouth into its scanty beard.

He is described as having a scanty beard that "straggled on his lumpy chin like dry moss," and dark eyes that showed nothing.

Somewhere he had seen that pale face and short, scanty beard and those thin, crooked shanks before.

The filthy black hat, courteously removed indoors, revealed a thin face with an intelligent expression, adorned with a vigorous, if scanty, brown beard.

Dubauer's hair, swollen face, scanty new beard, and collar were soaking wet, his eyes were red, and he continued to cough and sneeze.

Hund passed a hand worriedly across his sparse, scanty beard.