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  • The face gazing down at hers was narrow, sharp-boned, leached of all color, his eyes black and his hair so white he looked like a photograph in negative.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • The face gazing down at hers was narrow, sharp-boned, leached of all color, his eyes black and his hair so white he looked like a photograph in negative.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • At that moment, she wanted nothing more in the world than to slap him right across that sharp-boned face of his.

    Personal Demons Stacia Kane 2008

  • He was a tall boy with a skinny build, a mass of bark brown hair worn in a waving tangle around a sharp-boned face.

    Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007

  • His cheeks were sharp-boned and sunken; his hair, which had always been white, had thinned to a few feathery wisps.

    Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005

  • And now, this worn and sharp-boned middle-aged woman with breast implants and a whiskey-cigarette voice.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

  • Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

  • Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.

    Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001

  • A sharp-boned young woman arrived with disciE, lined hair and a power-dressing grey suit with a bright 'Juliard' rosette pinned to one shoulder.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

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