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Mustaches

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Mustaches 

See Also: BEARDS, HAIR

  1. Big mustaches that made him look like an animated mushroom —Arthur Train
  2. A black mustache like the lowered wings of a crow —Carolyn Chute
  3. A curled-up mustache, like two little rolls of barbed wire —Joyce Cary
  4. A gray handlebar mustache with oiled points, like the long horns of an ox —Ira Wood
  5. His mustache sags … like a bat —Carolyn Chute
  6. His white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads —Joyce Cary
  7. His yellow-to-brown mustache quivered and preened over his mouth like a sparrow’s wing shaking off dust —Paul Horgan
  8. The insignificant mustache trembled like a twig in a storm —Jonathan Kellerman
  9. A light mustache that flourished upwards as if blown that way by the breath of a constant smile —Henry James
  10. A little black mustache like an eyebrow —George Du Maurier
  11. Little circumflex accent mustache … like a black butterfly placed under his nose —Romain Gary
  12. Little mustaches stiffened like a pointer’s tail when he scents a bird —Arthur Train
  13. A man without a mustache is like a woman with only one breast —M. M. Liberman

    See Also: INCOMPLETENESS

  14. Mustache … black as India ink and big as the switch on a cow’s tail —James Crumley
  15. Mustache … black, like a charcoal smear on his upper lip —Paige Mitchell
  16. Mustache bristled like intractable gorse —Frank Swinnerton
  17. Mustache curling like a sultan’s —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  18. Mustache cut short like a worn-out brush —Henry James
  19. Mustache hanging heavy as a pelt —Carolyn Chute
  20. Mustache like a soft black mouse —Ann Tyler
  21. A mustache resting like a small white cloud beneath his undistinguished nose —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. A mustache shadowing either side of his lip with a broad sweep, like a bird’s wing —William Dean Howells
  23. (The faded) mustaches hung like crossed pistols above his radiant smile —Eudora Welty
  24. Mustache … thick and neat as a bristle brush —Ira Wood
  25. Mustache … thin and straight like it was painted on —George Garrett
  26. White mustache like a Viking’s —Jo Bannister


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--You can see the mustaches on the faces of the men--six of them.
Our skins were of the same lemon color as his own, and great, black beards and mustaches had been deftly affixed to our smooth faces.
and twirl their blond mustaches with the true English lordliness.
 
 
 
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