Not P but Moby-Dick (24)

[Ian Livingston]

Agreed. Noting, though, that a grey old man serving as Captain aboard a
whaling vessel may have been in his 40s.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 8:56 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> In context, it seems to mean “grown old.”  Like a wizened grizzly old man.
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 11:41 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From Chapter 41:
> >
> > Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny
> > where we here stand—however grand and wonderful, now quit it;—and take
> your
> > way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where
> > far beneath the fantastic towers of man’s upper earth, his root of
> > grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique
> buried
> > beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!
> >
> > What does "bearded" mean here? Is it just the usual meaning, or is it
> > something else?
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