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  • The cabbie was a jovial-looking guy with a checkered cap.

    Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007

  • He was an older, jovial-looking man with white hair and a close-cropped beard.

    The Queen’s Curse Emma Harrison 2005

  • He was an older, jovial-looking man with white hair and a close-cropped beard.

    The Queen’s Curse Emma Harrison 2005

  • When Wild Bill and Sam Chichester entered the saloon alluded to in our first chapter, they were hailed by several jovial-looking men, one of whom Wild Bill warmly responded to as California Joe, while he grasped the hand of another fine-looking young man whom he called Captain Jack.

    Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline

  • The syce, a jovial-looking little flat-faced fellow, was a native of

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • Karkov went over to another man of about forty-eight, who was short, chunky, jovial-looking with pale blue eyes, thinning blond hair and a gay mouth under a bristly yellow moustache.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • Karkov went over to another man of about forty-eight, who was short, chunky, jovial-looking with pale blue eyes, thinning blond hair and a gay mouth under a bristly yellow moustache.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • As we crowded round the door, a jovial-looking man with a twinkle in his eyes, as he was unceremoniously shoved against a pillar, announced that women should not have been allowed the vote, for its disastrous results were already evident in this crush; while the equally pleasant-faced policeman, who, as soon as intimation came from within that there was a vacancy, wheeled us in like so many bales of wool, replied --

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • This was Dick Blatchford, a round-faced, rather corpulent, rather silent though jovial-looking individual, with a calculating and humorous eye.

    The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "Help him in," said the R.T.O., a jovial-looking subaltern, genially -- "and keep him there," he added under his voice.

    Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907

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