“In the good old days, mutton chops were both a cut of meat and a style of whiskery adornment.”

“When I got back to the table I stood behind Papa, slipped my arms around his neck and bending down kissed his whiskery cheek.”

“For one thing, this is a whiskery, reflexive old incantation of the Right, that long ago lost any very vivid meaning.”

“Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants.”

“Out in the pond I had fantastic views of a whiskered tern wheeling around and picking food of some sort out of the water.”

“When a white van with two more whiskered men pulled up to the huddle, Sergeant Tommy Wright stepped out of his gold Ford Explorer.”

“They thought they had astutely identified the mystery face in the picture round as that of a whiskerless John McCririck.”