“I turned around to face him, doing everything I could to not gawk at his lean, wiry figure.”

“He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.”

“He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.”

“Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly.”

“He was a man of about my own age and height, but slimmer and wirier.”

“Once applied, the conditioner sits on the cuticle, where the keratin smoothes even the wiriest locks into silken hair.”