Her companion was a young man, long-faced, intense. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
"John Erskine, Your Majesty," said the long-faced man. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
The long-faced woman is standing over her looking down. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
They came back an hour later, long-faced and empty handed. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
The swordsman threw his long-faced friend a wild-eyed glance. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
She was a pretty, long-faced woman from the Tennessee mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Yet for all their sins have these long-faced robbers a scapegoat. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
That he is extremely sallow, thin, long-faced, and lantern-jawed. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
"Travelers?" squeaks the long-faced man in a high and thin voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
She was handsome in a bold, dark, long-faced way, just a bit wolfish. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
They just stood there, long-faced, like they had lost their best friend. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
George was twenty-six years of age, stout, long-faced, and of dark complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
As tall as the hundredman, Byar was a long-faced man with dark, deep-set eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
She was frizzy-haired and long-faced, throwing Doug off his game for a second. From Wordnik.com. [The Town] Reference
He looks exactly like a horse, sir, and a very long-faced horse at that, sir! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Potter trained the glasses out the window at the brown-haired, long-faced girl. From Wordnik.com. [A Maiden's Grave]
The Scotch are healthy and robust, unlike the long-faced, sickly-looking Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
“Certainly, Your Grace,” said the long-faced magicker, heaving a put-upon sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
You remember he said that the days had quite gone by for a 'long-faced Christianity.'. From Wordnik.com. [The First Soprano] Reference
A farmer had given it to him, a long-faced man with grooves in his cheeks from worry. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Stepping away from the railing, Stanager turned to stare up at her long-faced passenger. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
His mirage-like, long-faced reflection looked back at him from the transparent aluminum. From Wordnik.com. [Harbinger] Reference
He had a most remarkable aspect, an exceeding high forehead, long-faced, and sour-eyelidded. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
The long-faced fellow in the skirt wants us to take -im and -is circus across the Semordria!. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
“This is Sir Roger Musgrave,” he said, pointing to a long-faced person in a black periwig. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
He was a thin man, long-faced, sharp-featured, his brown hair prematurely sprinkled with gray. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
After a number of inquiries a long-faced macaque clad in heavy overcoat and cap finally responded. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
The long-limbed, long-faced, long-tongued man left the ranks and obsequiously greeted his spiritual father. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Levelis," said one long-faced Lord sourly, "never exerted himself to travel more than a league or two at a time.". From Wordnik.com. [Elvenborn]
The newcomer was not a bit like a primrose, being long-faced and clever, smart, but not a bit elegant, in her new clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladybird] Reference
Here they came, his Lords of the Congregation: the flaming-haired Earl of Morton, the long-faced Erskine, the handsome Ruthven. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
But the dreary sermons, the visits of the long-faced clergymen and the drill in the Catechism were only shadows that came and went. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
There was a large fleshy man in the front room, a chubby little man in the kitchen, and a sleek, long-faced man in the spare chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
I really hate to say it, but we want to underscore a very long-faced Bob Murray, it seems, as we wait for him to step up to the mike. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference
"But to return to the subject," persisted the president -- a long-faced girl with a solemn countenance, but a suspicious gleam in her eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
"Didst meet on thy way that most puritanical of Puritans, the praying, cheating, canting, hypocritical, long-faced Master Spikeman?" cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
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