He noted it and smiled, his sardonic, thin-lipped smile. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lieberman, now that's a thin-lipped guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference
His eyes were mean green and his mouth thin-lipped and wide. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
"Good morning, Mrs. Kahn," she replied, frosty and thin-lipped. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
I forget how white they are, and mean-spirited, and thin-lipped. From Wordnik.com. [Nora Ephron: The Morning After] Reference
Her mouth was tiny and thin-lipped, with a tendency toward wry smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
When we come back, Jeanne Moos on thin-lipped politics, right after this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference
He was thin-lipped, and his hawk nose made a high barrier between his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
He looked at her averted profile, and gave her another thin-lipped smile. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Sluice] Reference
You hard-lined, thin-lipped, repressive, changeless woman with a wax mask on. From Wordnik.com. [Mugby Junction] Reference
Shelby noted that the anecdote won even a thin-lipped grin from the hostile camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
There would be the devil to pay in the morning, the devil and a thin-lipped silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
The thin-lipped mouth was large and flexible, and showed both sweetness and firmness. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Part in a Revolution] Reference
She had a resonant, professional-sounding voice, a wary smile, and a thin-lipped mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
‘No, thank you,’ came the curt reply, tempered quickly by another thin-lipped smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride]
Yet here we were, like father and son, mother and daughter, thin-lipped, stone and brick. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation on Thanksgiving] Reference
The thin-lipped assistant overseer of the prison jumped from his chair and mumbled quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Cranly closed his long thin-lipped mouth, communed with himself an instant and answered: —. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Mr. Gerne never smiled; he was a small, thin-lipped man with white skin and very little hair. From Wordnik.com. [Hex] Reference
He was a dark man with an arrogant face and thin-lipped smile: good enough at heart, but crusted. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
When he could breathe normally again, he wiped the back of his hand across his thin-lipped mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
Kronberg, his dark, thin-lipped face ashen, fell headlong into the room with a revolver in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
An old woman with high cheekbones, a bowed nose and a firm, thin-lipped mouth was the central figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
He was a middle-aged man, rather stout, with a thin-lipped mouth and bad-tempered lines on his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat]
The inexorable character of his features was borne out by the mouth, thin-lipped and firm in its closing. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
"But I don't suppose Boston bothers with such sordid things," she added, her thin-lipped mouth tightening. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
This morning he was the stern, thin-lipped aristocrat, asking questions, issuing warnings, hinting of rewards. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
COLLINS: I don ` t know, watching this footage, I can see how he went to Argentina; this thin-lipped banker look. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2009] Reference
Lampron stared astonished at this little thin-lipped man who had just changed his tone and manner so unexpectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Small, fine lines puckered humorously at their corners, and there was humour, too, in the long, thin-lipped mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Alwhin stared a thin-lipped contempt, every line of her face saying that such things did not happen when she wore a bracelet. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
It amazed me how he managed to fit such large bundles of it onto his fork and then maneuver it all into his tiny, thin-lipped mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Max Wood excerpt] Reference
It had no visible ears, and its nostrils were mere holes above a wide, grinning, thin-lipped mouth, which was always spread in a grin. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
Then the door was opened, and Garrison beheld a squint-eyed, thin-lipped old man, who scowled upon him and remained there, barring his way. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
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