hoariness

Example Sentences

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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

May He have mercy on him who saith: Look thou thy hoariness preserve from aught that may it stain,      For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and      fain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

A mellow hoariness marked them all, due to their own richly subdued coloring and the long garlands of silvery moss that hung from their boughs like an old, rich growth of hair.

From The California Birthday Book by Various

Here there met them an old man, handsome in his hoariness and of a venerable bearing and a dignified, agreeable of aspect and apparel.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir