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  • For a petite and refined-looking woman -- who is often called a "Latina Audrey Hepburn" -- Mia has an outsized zest for exploring every uncovered wonder in this world.

    Christiana Wyly: Twilight, Mia Maestro and the Call of Our Wild Side Christiana Wyly 2011

  • For a petite and refined-looking woman -- who is often called a "Latina Audrey Hepburn" -- Mia has an outsized zest for exploring every uncovered wonder in this world.

    Christiana Wyly: Twilight, Mia Maestro and the Call of Our Wild Side Christiana Wyly 2011

  • His wife — though I was never certain they were legally married, I didn't think so, for some reason — was a refined-looking girl with long straight brown hair and the high cheekbones of a classically beautiful European face.

    No Dogs Allowed Jerry Ratch 2011

  • A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Afterwards, there seemed no hope of quiet, so we went to the post-office, and while waiting for stamps were shown into the prettiest and most ladylike-looking room I have seen in the West, created by a pretty and refined-looking woman.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Dangle, barring his swollen eye, was a refined-looking little man, and be wore a deerstalker cap and was dressed in dark grey.

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

  • He was a plain-featured but graceful and refined-looking man of thirty, with wavy chestnut hair and a trimmed beard which became him well.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Turning her camera on Locke, Judith sees a refined-looking young man.

    House 1985

  • Where Kingsley and McLaughlin were men of great physical bulk and had made their way up in the world in part because of that, Murphy was small, spare, well knit, and clean-shaven, a refined-looking man with gray hair and sharp, intelligent eyes.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.

    Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1963

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