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  • They are gaunt-cheeked and haggard-gray of skin, with great dark circles under their eyes.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • For ten stages, the 32-year-old French rider riveted his country by sitting atop the race, defending the maillot jaune with a grit that recalled gaunt-cheeked, vintage champions.

    A Tour That Was Hard to Ignore Jason Gay 2011

  • Though eight other gaunt-cheeked boys presented themselves in the same audience, only Liir answered smartly enough to be signed up.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • The Cairhienin were solemn, even dour, most gaunt-cheeked and each with the front of his head shaved and powdered in what had once been the fashion only among soldiers in Cairhien, not lords.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • But the face caught the moon, gaunt-cheeked, pale, with black eyes too big above a puckered, red-lipped mouth.

    The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

  • He seemed a little gaunt-cheeked, but otherwise his appearance was fresh and crisp.

    Terms Of Surrender Janet Dailey 1982

  • The gaunt-cheeked foreman idly rolled his glass in a half-circle on the table.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • The gaunt-cheeked foreman idly rolled his glass in a half-circle on the table.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • He seemed a little gaunt-cheeked, but otherwise his appearance was fresh and crisp.

    Terms Of Surrender Janet Dailey 1982

  • Glaudot, younger than Purcell by fifteen years, confident, arrogant, a lean hard man and handsome in a gaunt-cheeked, saturnine way, lacked humility.

    A World Called Crimson Darius John Granger

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