Garcia's stocking was sopping wet through his cracked boot, and so were his hair and scratchy new beard.

He gave her a soft kiss on the cheek, his unshaven beard deliriously scratchy.

Wouldn't it be better than having that itchy, scratchy beard-" "No," said Charlie.

He looked in a mirror, shocked to see that he had grown a scratchy dark brown beard.

(Ages 3 to 7) He has a scratchy beard and wears a suit, takes good care of his babies and misses them too much when he tries to take a vacation.

The scratchy beard that smelled of a cologne that, after years of searching, she could never identify.

(O.K. - nugatory means "trifling" or "inoperative," and rebarbative is "repellent, irritating," presumably coined by a woman whose lover had a scratchy beard.)

Thomas leaned back in his chair and felt the scratchy beard growing on his own face.

All his family in Richmond had scratchy beards; even the women scratched.

In the public-relations battle for world opinion, they said, Israel might have fared better with Mr. Arafat on hand, unsettling some people with his familiar headdress, scratchy beard and verbal overdrive.