"It's all because of the security situation," said Muaiyad Fouad, 68, a trader with a silver mustache and a professorial bearing.

The man stopped and turned to stare at him over a silver mustache large enough to sweep out a stable.

Kani wiped a glitter of rain off his silver mustache.

He stroked the thin silver mustache under his nose with one fingertip.

The trader touched his silver mustache as he straightened.

Good, he said hoarsely, and Harkness wiped his silver mustache, left and right, with his thumb before he demanded, Why have you come?

Dumbledore looked up, and a wide smile appeared under the long silver mustache.

He was broad and muscular on a small scale and had a magnificently curled silver mustache on his crinkled face.

With his slight silver mustache, tweed sports jacket and matching tie and pocket square, he could have been an Italian William Faulkner.