The sad-faced clown. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"What a sad-faced child the smaller one is," observed Faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
There was the sad-faced man with the bluebird-wings mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
He wasn't a man for an appetite: sad-faced, withdrawn, cautious. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
Also, the camera whips to sad-faced Joe Lieberman were wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [Recountdown: Politics and Power] Reference
Behind him stumbled sad-faced Nestor Gamidge, also with a carbine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridges at Toko-Ri]
Inside, she found herself standing next to a tall, sad-faced barker. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
It was drawn by a monster traction-engine, and sad-faced men walked beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The expression turned him from a colorless executioner into a sad-faced clown. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
One day Momma sat so sad-faced that she seemed to have forgotten how to smile. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers In The Attic]
The other was a sad-faced young man, English apparently, with a valise on his lap. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
The First Magus, the sad-faced Liataphi, stands to the left at the base of the dais. From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
A sad-faced woman in black moved slowly down the line of cots led by a sympathetic nurse. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
“I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car.”. From Wordnik.com. [Accident Reports] Reference
A sharper man, that sad-faced, half-sick Selwyn Briggs, had actually trimmed him like this!. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
In fact, she had only dim memories of a sad-faced but smiling mother, and none of her father. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Fire]
The release mechanism can be anything - book, film, sad-faced penguin, it's just the trigger. From Wordnik.com. [The Crying Game] Reference
The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER X] Reference
Inside, weeping women and sad-faced, hollow-eyed men are bending over loved and familiar faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The door was open; a young woman, sweet, yet sad-faced, was seated upon the steps, fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
Dillon indicated the sad-faced young woman, who had just returned from hanging up the Gentleman's coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Sinister Six Combo]
Hanfor inclined his head slightly more than a perfunctory nod, while the sad-faced Zealor offered a bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
We see fit to change the scene once more back to the pocket gulch -- the home of the sweet, sad-faced Anita. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
Her fairy-tale-like pieces, peopled with forlorn heroines and sad-faced clowns, might have come from anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Art's New Superpower] Reference
"We didn't want to go out of here sad-faced, saying we could have, we should have, we would have," McClain said. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Fighting Illini too much for 49ers] Reference
It is a toil-worn, sad-faced woman, with hard, bony hands, and that look of patient endurance that is so pathetic. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889] Reference
The paradox of revolution, like the epic cavalcade of the sad-faced knight, lives within the writer's consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I was in a local gunshop when the patron in front of me turned around very sad-faced and slowly walked out of the store. From Wordnik.com. [Guns for Gift Cards?] Reference
At a landing near the northern limits of Memphis he took a punt, bade farewell to his sad-faced charioteer and pushed off. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
I drop into a deserted downtown café, where a sad-faced worker traces the faint shape of a heart in the froth of my coffee. From Wordnik.com. [A Sickening Thud] Reference
He chewed on his pierced lip while he regarded her, a sad-faced young man with short dark hair half dyed a bright Kool-Aid red. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
Now, and here it came, into New York they came, these sad-faced women with their arms leaden from carrying babies and a long ride. From Wordnik.com. [Damon Runyan: A Life] Reference
A few sad-faced women wandered about and poked in the sand and among the broken stone which now covers the location of their former homes. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
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