Herman Melville Likes Your Beard
Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket:
- beards
- the crop
- suburbs of the chin
- homeward-bounders
- fly-brushes
- long, trailing moss hanging from the bough of some aged oak
- love-curls
- Winnebago locks
- carroty bunches
- rebellious bristles
- redundant mops
- yellow bamboos
- long whiskers
- thrice-noble beards
- plantations of hair
- whiskerandoes
- nodding harvests
- viny locks
- the fleece
- fine tassels
- goatees
- imperials
- sacred things
- admiral’s pennant
- manhood
- muzzle-lashings
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