high-boned

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Under the forehead, the cheeks showed high-boned, with underneath the slight hollows that necessarily accompany such formation.

CHAPTER IV 2010
Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.

THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010
Benson had a happy, rosy nose and high-boned smile hills.

Evidence Meg Pokrass 2011
I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
He opened his eyes upon a lean, dark figure looming beside him, and a shadowed oval face, high-boned and aquiline, looking down at him impersonally, with a grave and slightly unnerving intelligence.

A River So Long 2010
A black veil covered her hair, accentuating her high-boned pallor; she looked more like a mourner than the mother of a bride.

The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007
A black veil covered her hair, accentuating her high-boned pallor; she looked more like a mourner than the mother of a bride.

The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007
Some were light in colour, and some were black as coal; some had squat negro features, and some thin, high-boned Arab faces.

Prester John 2005