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  • The young Roman hero was represented by a broadfaced

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • One of the others stepped closer, a broadfaced woman with short, brindled hair; she said to Carl: 'Allin wants to know where the thornwing picked you up.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • The short broadfaced Vietnamese major was not a military chief of the NLF, but the head of the government school for Revolutionary Development, training anti-Communist cadres.

    Report from Vietnam III: Intellectuals McCarthy, Mary 1967

  • Africa, the Hottentots, formerly a nomadic people, who wandered about with herds of cattle over the extensive plains of Kafirland, resembling in their manner of life the Tungusians and the Mongols, have also broadfaced, pyramidal skulls, and in many particulars of their organization resemble the Northern Asiatics.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • Thenceforth a broadfaced girl appeared among us, of the same age as myself, Dunechka, with her nurse Eupraksiya, a tall, wrinkled old woman with a hanging chin, like a turkey in which there was a ball which she used to let us feel.

    Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

  • [202] Foote told me that Johnson said of him, 'For loud obstreperous broadfaced mirth, I know not his equal.'

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The Ben to whom the mate alluded was a broadfaced Englishman, who had been the spokesman on the occasion when Gary had made known to the crew the object and destination of his voyage.

    Ralph Granger's Fortunes William Perry Brown 1885

  • [202] Foote told me that Johnson said of him, 'For loud obstreperous broadfaced mirth, I know not his equal.'

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

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