"Beardie" Quotes from Famous Books
... Scott's great grandsire was called "Beardie." He was an ardent Jacobite, and made a vow that he would never shave his beard until the Stuarts were restored. "It would have been well," said the novelist, "if his zeal for the vanished dynasty had stopped with letting ... — At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews |