1.   Exactly, White answers, stroking his beard.

2.   He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit.

3.   He stroked his beard and then scratched irritably through it.

4.   Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.

5.   That at least made Pinkus stroke his beard again.

6.   Archimedes stroked his beard and retired to cogitate.

7.   I put the file down again and stroke my beard for comfort, the way Timmy used to stroke his little piece of blanket.

8.   Asked what had been the biggest hurdle as they breached the wall between their community and the outside world, Mayevsky and Rabbi Berger conferred, stroking their beards.

9.   Aaron stroked his beard and offered up a choice piece of river philosophy that pertains to all walks of life.

10.   Siri sat in the back of the courtroom, often leaning forward and stroking his beard as he followed the proceedings with the help of an interpreter.