Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked by care: having lines deepened by care or trouble, as the face.
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Examples
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A care-lined, middle-aged face, with receding sandy hair, blue-gray eyes, and an oddly intense set to the square jaw.
Angelmass Zahn, Timothy 2001
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Wyvis bent over his mother's pillow and looked into her quiet, care-lined face.
A True Friend A Novel Adeline Sergeant
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Bent of shoulder, white-haired old dames; from whose kindly care-lined faces grateful tears were fast flowing, poured out volumes of thanks to the Normans in their mother tongue.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq
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So ere long she came out of her November rage and sat down in still, mellow sunshine, and gathering her children about her, whispered beautiful stories in their ears; warmed them with her love and brightness; soothed their care-lined brows and filled their hearts with a sense of the nearness of the Giver of all good.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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She noted the worried, pitiful child face that, screened behind the worn and care-lined features, looked forth like a pretty flower.
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She came upstairs, clinging to the balusters for support, a tired, worn-looking, elderly woman, with a lank, frail body, and a care-lined, miserable face.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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But, when she came back with her pale face and care-lined eyes, her soft voice and caressing hand, pleading, pathetic, seeking protection from the horrible contact of a jail, would he be able to hold out?
The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley
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Doctor Stanton _is a handsome man of forty-five or so with a grave, care-lined, studious face lightened by a kindly, humorous smile.
The Straw Eugene O'Neill 1920
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For I was led to the schoolroom, with its sunshine and its singing and the teacher's cheery smile; while she was led to the workshop, with its foul air, care-lined faces, and the foreman's stern command.
The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915
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For I was led to the schoolroom, with its sunshine and its singing and the teacher's cheery smile; while she was led to the workshop, with its foul air, care-lined faces, and the foreman's stern command.
The Promised Land 1912
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