black-avised

Two men were walking towards us, a tall, black-avised fellow striding like a guardsman, and a smaller chap in the dark-and-light blue of the U.S. Marines.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The one formidable customer was Aaron Stevens, a big black-avised rascal who at thirty was the oldest; he'd served in Mexico, been sentenced to death for mutiny, broken out of Leavenworth, and fought the slavers in Kansas, where he'd been colonel of a militia troop.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Then abruptly I flashed into being down that green-walled, brick-floored vista as a black-avised, ill-clad young man, who first stared and then advanced scowling toward her.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Two men were walking towards us, a tall, black-avised fellow striding like a guardsman, and a smaller chap in the dark-and-light blue of the U.S. Marines.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

The one formidable customer was Aaron Stevens, a big black-avised rascal who at thirty was the oldest; he'd served in Mexico, been sentenced to death for mutiny, broken out of Leavenworth, and fought the slavers in Kansas, where he'd been colonel of a militia troop.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

The one formidable customer was Aaron Stevens, a big black-avised rascal who at thirty was the oldest; he'd served in Mexico, been sentenced to death for mutiny, broken out of Leavenworth, and fought the slavers in Kansas, where he'd been colonel of a militia troop.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Two men were walking towards us, a tall, black-avised fellow striding like a guardsman, and a smaller chap in the dark-and-light blue of the U.S. Marines.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

An ordinary enough figure, this square, sturdy, black-avised young fellow, anybody's son or brother; but not ordinary now.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

A big, black-avised, affronted man, with a face grimly set.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

The Paddy, a burly red-head with a sergeant's chevrons, was trying to wrest a bottle from the Scot, a black-avised scoundrel in a red coat who was beating him off and singing an obscene song about a ball at Kirriemuir which was new to me; the Chink was egging 'em on and shrieking with laughter.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985