1.   He clearly viewed my sharp nose and dark beard in a more favorable light than the starlets had.

2.   He was a small stubby man with glasses and a trimmed dark beard.

3.   Dirani, who had dark hair and a dark beard, kept his eyes firmly planted on their lawyer.

4.   He had a long dark beard, Rastafarian dreadlocks, and the gaunt, intense face of an Old Testament prophet.

5.   In Kabul, men no longer under Taliban rule are singing and dancing and taking straight razors to their thick dark beards after five repressive years of whiskers.

6.   Ubaidullah, whose wide smile is set off by a dark beard, is a Pashtun, and last year he married an Uzbek woman, Kumar Khal.

7.   Watch for a tall woman with a flower in her hair and a man with a full dark beard who moves kind of like a rooster.

8.   With his dark beard and his accented English, he has had his pick of parts as terrorists, hijackers, kidnappers and Islamic militants.

9.   To his guests, he showed off Zekriya, a tall man with a long dark beard who shuffled into the room.