11.   Men stroke bare chins.

12.   Or stroke our chin?

13.   Routinely stroking his chin with his left hand, he appears calm in court, except for the nervous tapping of his foot against the table leg.

14.   Stanley Crouch stroked his chin and stared toward an imaginary horizon.

15.   The hands move often, stroking the chin judgmentally, caressing the cheeks, adjusting the glasses, brushing the straight black hair that falls over his forehead.

16.   Piazza, stroking his chin, had trouble defining the way he felt.

17.   He repeatedly stroked his chin, daring Alicea to hit him there.

18.   The ball sailed back into the sunlight and past Wheaton, who could only stand and stroke his chin in awe.