weazen

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The women were mostly little weazen-faced creatures, whom labour and ill treatment had rendered inexpressibly hideous.

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  • And at last, when I stood at the gate of life, a weazen-faced fishwife, who had not wit enough to support herself, came near shutting me out. —  The Promised Land
  • One of the wealthiest members of the family was a little weazen-faced old maid, of fifty years or more. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Citizen-soldier, by John Beatty.
  • And at the last, when I stood at the gate of life, a weazen-faced fishwife, who had not wit enough to support herself, came near shutting me out Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. —  The Promised Land
  • Hence the hosts of deformed, scrofulous, weazen, and idiotic children which curse the race, and testify to the sensuality of their progenitors. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
  • So, who knows if the infants, too often feeble and weazen, are not the fruit of these in themselves incomplete procreations_, and disturbed by preoccupations foreign to the generic act? —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
 

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