At first it offends one to see certain pontiffs with mustaches and imperials and goatees; but, if one reflects that so they wore them in life, one perceives right in it; only when one comes to earlier or later popes, bearded in medieval majority or shaven in the decent modern fashion, one can endure those others only as part of the prevailing baroque of the church.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
The Author looked at the old ladies, on whose delicate withered hands the wedding-rings hung loosely, and at the erect old gentlemen with white goatees, and something whimsically tender came into his clever face.
"A Woman Named Smith"
Marie Conway Oemler
I thought Frenchmen wore mustaches and goatees and were awful polite.
"Kent Knowles: Quahaug"
Joseph C. Lincoln