human
Oh, yes, he answered.
gpt
I see him now before my mind's eye, as, with a broad gleam of amusement over his face, he kept looking up at Colonel Sibthorpe, the somewhat eccentric member for Lincoln, and then jotting down something in his notes. Colonel Sibthorpe, having been an officer in the army, was exempt from the then current convention of being close-shaven, and he was bearded like a pard. I cannot recall the exact epigram, but I remember the incident perfectly.
human
Oh, these colonels! said O'Connell,
gpt
Three colonels in three distant counties born, Armagh and Clare, and Lincoln did adorn; The first in lengthiness of beard surpassed, The next in bushiness, in both the last: The force of nature could no further go-- To _beard_ the third she _shaved_ the other two!