Quotes About Stubble

Even the men were better groomed than I was. Kimmy's queer brigade wears purposefully sloppy hair and uses special shavers that leave rugged day-old stubble.

I reached up and touched his face, feeling the appealingly masculine stubble there.

Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn't much of a window for anyone to use them against you—and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway.

William got up and went over to the window. Outside, the autumn fields lay pleasingly striped with stubble and speckled with partridges.

He hadn't shaved since morning, and the faint red stubble rasped pleasantly beneath my fingertips.

The day was warm; but the fact that the sky was covered with a filmy veil of grey clouds gave to the vast plain before him the appearance of a landscape whose dominant characteristic consisted in a patient effacement of all emphatic or outstanding qualities. The green of the meadows was a shy, watery green. The verdure of the elm trees was a sombre, blackish monotony. The yellow of the stubble land was a whitish-yellow, pallid and lustreless.

Then came the deglutition of saliva, and the old lady instinctively wiped the stubble of her toothbrush moustache with her handkerchief.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

Dressed in his black leather jacket and black leather pants, his eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, his face shadowed with stubble, he stepped into the room like menace come to life.

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.