Crossword-Solution: LONGBEARDS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The Longbeards, noblest of their race, had found a temporary resting-place upon the Austrian frontier, after long southward wanderings from the Swedish mountains, soon to be dispossessed again by the advancing Huns, and, crossing the Alps, to give their name for ever to the plains of Lombardy.

Over the camp fires Drank I with heroes, Under the Donau bank Warm in the snow-trench, Sagamen heard I there, Men of the Longbeards, Cunning and ancient, Honey-sweet-voiced.

And Russia, do you know what that is, you cracked head? Six hundred thousand longbeards have been enlisted, besides 300 thousand soldiers with bare chins, and 200 thousand veterans.

Like the Tartars, they have hardly any beard, and they carefully pluck out any little that appears, calling the Europeans _longbeards,_ by way of reproach.

The Russians never pass a church without making the sign of the cross, and their longbeards add greatly to the religious expression of their physiognomy.