A weather-beaten face. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His face was so weather-beaten that his skin was like leather. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
The tower is very old and weather-beaten, and bears date 1635. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Old, weather-beaten houses they were -- a dozen, perhaps, in all. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
From the side of their weather-beaten boat dragged an old fishnet. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
Note the heavenly smile that lights up his weather-beaten old face!. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
To this the weather-beaten replied by winking twice with both eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Who would have supposed that this weather-beaten hulk was my old messmate. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
She was immensely tall, and had a hard, weather-beaten face, surmounted by. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
A ray of light from their single oil lamp shone across his weather-beaten face. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
The house at which Judge Sharp stopped was long, low, and terribly weather-beaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
I want to take his weather-beaten face in my hands and tell him it will be alright. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Time] Reference
He was clad in his weather-beaten tarpaulins, and on his shoulder perched the monkey. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Thus founded on rocks, it stands old and weather-beaten, in a desolate district of sand-towans. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Stashed behind the placards is a sleeping bag, weather-beaten umbrellas and yellowing newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The Barricade] Reference
They preferred, it seemed, the dust and noise and the weather-beaten bustle of the centralzocalo. From Wordnik.com. [Gansevoort Ridge] Reference
He was a tall, broad-shouldered man with a rather grim, weather-beaten face and shrewd blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
The cloth was not weather-beaten, which, to the boys, showed that it had not long been hanging there. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
"You was lucky to get in last night," said the master of the hutch, an old, weather-beaten fisherman. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
As sardonic as ever, and considerably more weather-beaten, Willis couldn't be more perfect for the part. From Wordnik.com. [Hard and Harderer] Reference
She clung to the scaly weather-beaten stem of the tree as she would have pressed a sister to her breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
A stout, strong-looking young woman in thick boots and short skirts; a weather-beaten, serviceable being. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
There the gables of an old and somewhat weather-beaten home sat in a group of beech on a rise among the foothills. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
A friendly gleam shone in his beady orbs as they lingered for a second on the captain's kindly, weather-beaten face. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Dale drove straight out to Frank James's place and parked his big, red GMC truck in the shade of the weather-beaten barn. From Wordnik.com. [OUT ON THE EDGE OF VICTORIAN CIVILIZATION] Reference
But that one having been weather-beaten and broken, he replaced it with another, higher up on the mountain, with an image of. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
There was some brushwood at the top, and two or three old weather-beaten palm trees, these afforded us most welcome shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Her hair had turned very gray, there were deeper lines in her weather-beaten face, and a trembling of her lips and hands made. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Every day his coat grew more ragged, and the hut more weather-beaten, but the people remarked that he never looked sad nor sour. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
But many are middle-aged men like me, weather-beaten guys who look harmless in a suit and tie, but who are transformed in the saddle. From Wordnik.com. [A Roving Revolution On London's Streets] Reference
His face was thin and no longer weather-beaten, and he'd lost all of that childish arrogance which had so often irritated his elders. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
His tanned, weather-beaten features wrinkled with delight; he had the skin of a sailor, and I wondered how often the marsh had hid him. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
You can still see a few fragments of the wall's ancient foundation there, enshrined in weather-beaten glass cases atop the rebuilt wall. From Wordnik.com. [Late Great Wall] Reference
A half smile -- a contemptuous smirk of the lips -- seamed for a moment the bronzed, weather-beaten and wrinkled face of the lone horseman. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference
Even some Old World winemakers are beginning to go modern, forsaking ancient châteaux and weather-beaten farmhouses for sleek new wineries, often designed by big-name architects. From Wordnik.com. [Bordeaux vs. Bali: The Wine Wars] Reference
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