1.   A tall, bespectacled figure, his face half concealed by a luxuriant walrus moustache, Perky had enjoyed an extraordinary career.

2.   He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

3.   He was a tall heavy-set man of about sixty, bald, with a brick-red face and a walrus moustache.

4.   He was thick-set, with thinning hair brushed back, a magnificent walrus moustache and several missing teeth.

5.   In those days, the place was owned by Leon Gouin, a gimlet-eyed, wiry little Auvergnat with a black, walrus moustache.

6.   The most striking detail comes from photographs of him as a young man with a ducklike mouth that would soon be covered by his trademark walrus moustache.