Themselves they named Khuzud, but the Gnomes called them Neweg, the stunted, and those who dwelt in Nogrod they called Enfeng, the Longbeards, because their beards swept the floor before their feet.

He was marching out on to the pitch with terrible purpose in his gait, his hair, beard and robes swept behind him, looking very much as Moses would have looked if Sinai had been a well-cut lawn instead of, as it is more usually represented, a fiery smoking mountain.

His arms and shoulders touched the ground and his blond beard swept the hard packed dirt.

He bowed low, his gray beard sweeping the floor.

This morning even it would have been 'to see your Highness,' uttered with bows so low that his beard swept the floor.

His head was as bald as the polished surface of a cocoa-nut shell, which article it precisely resembled in smoothness and colour, while a long silvery beard swept almost to his girdle of bark.

Just at that moment Balin and Dwalin appeared and bowed so low that their beards swept the stone floor.

My beard, evidently once blond, but now a dirt-stained and streaky brown, swept my midriff in a tangled mass.

Nauglir the Gnomes called them, and those who dwelt in Nogrod they called Indrafangs, the Longbeards, because their beards swept the floor before their feet.

A long white beard swept over his chest, but his great domed head was innocent of even a single hair.