lean-faced

• “A solemn, lean-faced man in his fifties stood with his arms crossed, staring at the substation.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Burning Wire

• “He alone had no war-bonnet or feathers, or anything but a coloured shirt; he was young and wiry, lean-faced and lank-haired and without paint-but with those eyes he didn't need any.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.”

  Simon & Schuster: The War of The Worlds

• “He roused to see, dimly, the port and starboard bulkheads crashing in under the fire of the pirates' protons, and a swarm of lean-faced hot-eyed Neptune men pouring through the breaches.”

  The Star Pirates

• “He was lanky, like Jim, and lean-faced, with deep creases and a mustache just long enough to droop.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Widows of Eastwick'

• “Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a lean-faced man with shoulder-length dark hair stepping down from the Raptor.”

  Battlestar Galactica

• “The state of Britain was represented nearly always by a red-faced, purse-proud farmer with an enormous belly, that fine dream of freedom, the United States, by a cunning, lean-faced rascal in striped trousers and a blue coat.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “The stout clerk reappeared, holding the door for a graying, lean-faced man with a black leather patch hiding the spot where his right eye had been.”

  Knife of Dreams

• “They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,”

  The Comedy of Errors

• “A lean-faced, rather commonplace woman recognised Carrie on the platform and hurried forward.”

  Sister Carrie

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