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  • In these dilemmas the devout consult those violet-sashed and sensual-looking gentry who are trooping past me.

    The Waves 2003

  • Betty Raleigh, looking up from a seat where she sat talking to a squat and sensual-looking man, a dweller in the high places and cool serenities of advanced mathematics whom jocular-minded Nature had misdowered with the face of a satyr, interposed the suave candor of her voice.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • After waiting what we both consider an unnecessarily long time in the vestibule, a full-faced, sensual-looking, or, in other words, well-to-do Persian-looking individual, in the full costume of a Persian nobleman, comes out, bearing my letter unopened in his hand.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Once Dr. Liddon, walking with me down the hall of Christ Church, pointed to the portrait of an extremely bloated and sensual-looking prelate on the wall, and said, with that peculiar kind of mincing precision which added so much to the point of his sarcasms, "How singular, dear friend, to reflect that _that person_ was chosen, in the providential order, to connect Mr. Keble with the Apostles!"

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • The rajah was the only one in European costume, and at the first glance at the man, with his heavy fat sensual-looking face and lurid eyes, Ned recalled his companion's words: "Whatever you see, do not laugh."

    The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870

  • His chin was full and somewhat sensual-looking, but withal he was a manly, frank-faced young fellow, and was said to have gained self-possession and lost the early nervous awkwardness of his new position with great rapidity.

    Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

  • The other is comparatively coarse -- forehead low, nose depressed and short, lower part of the face prognathous and sensual-looking, chin heavy, jaw large, lips thick and projecting.

    Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857

  • He had a heavy pair of red, sensual-looking lips, his hair was untinted by gray, and his eyes still lustrous.

    Caught in the Net ��mile Gaboriau 1852

  • Obviously, this ceremony demanded that the normally sensual-looking Marion dress in a conservative manner, but that's nothing compared to what they did to poor Vanessa Paradis last year (see below).

    Agent Bedhead 2008

  • _en croc_, and his shoebrush hair, I have rarely beheld a more sensual-looking desperado.

    Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

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