She had the fine-drawn face of an intelligent Jewess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page to Screen] Reference

We have not yet emerged from the fine-drawn distinctions of peaceful times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

The boys look a little fine-drawn but sinewy and strong and fit for any adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

Since he was younger and much fitter, his sleepless nights had made him fine-drawn and handsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

And, curiously enough, a woman whose beauty seemed to have been sharpened by many fine-drawn renunciations.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

His taut, fine-drawn face had the fierce and lonely beauty of a proud hawk, and he was frightening in his masculinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dearly Beloved]

Can we ever forget the picture of the Terror in which fine-drawn aristocrats meet their death with stoic wit and unbearable dignity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Revolution] Reference

Cadfael had visions of that face terminating in a short, pointed beard, and with fine-drawn moustaches over the long, fastidious lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin In The Ice]

The day of sentiment was over, and no dithyrambic affirmations or fine-drawn analyses of the Rights of Man would serve their present turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

The contour of the forehead and cheek-bones, the little hollows of the temples, and the fine-drawn arches of the eyes had the quality of a Holbein drawing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursing Home Murder]

Anstice stood biting his lip and staring thoughtfully ahead of him; and the old man watched the thin, fine-drawn face with a regard which was full of anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

A long face, fine-drawn, with lines at the corners of the eyes, and deeper set brackets at the lips, a brown face, well - weathered, but in its way an ageless face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch World]

They had fine-drawn distinctions, not easy to appreciate at this day, between taxes levied for the purpose of raising revenue and duties imposed for the regulation of trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

The later birds of the season, suggesting no such fine-drawn sensations, yet identify themselves with their chosen haunts, so that we cannot think of the one without the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

Which at the first outstood from yarn-hanks evenly fine-drawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference

When the Boy, fine-drawn by sleeplessness, started his ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference

These fine-drawn speculations, however, are a sheer waste of breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Number Seventeen] Reference

But we were thin, and a little fine-drawn, like athletes somewhat overtrained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message] Reference

A good many people lay their fine-drawn plans, but they mostly don't come off!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On] Reference

As the great man approached him he spread out his fine-drawn nostrils and sniffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

There it is again -- a fine-drawn, shrill, piercing cry as of some animal in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure] Reference

Hume replies, certainly not by reasonings from first causes or any sort of fine-drawn logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hume (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference

Perch, Sabre thought, a striking enhancement of the fine-drawn expression that always had been his.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Winter Comes] Reference

Neither must Thor see it, however; his rough sense would fail to appreciate her fine-drawn distinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference

Just before breaking these would tower aloft, their fine-drawn crests poised for an instant in the sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

A dim, fine-drawn but uneven line of shadowy light had grown out of the darkness to his now accustomed eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forfeit] Reference

As the door closed, Kirkwood swung impulsively to Brentwick, with the brief, uneven laugh of fine-drawn nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Bag] Reference

She laughed at her sixteen years with a fine-drawn laugh that flowed on with rhythmic trilling like a streamlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference

The lines, too, in his strong face, fine-drawn and scarcely noticeable ordinarily, the searching sun of spring had no mercy upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

Presently the water boils -- in go the long bundles of fine-drawn paste, and everybody collects forward to watch the important operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children of the King] Reference