Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marked by care: having lines deepened by care or trouble, as the face.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Wyvis bent over his mother's pillow and looked into her quiet, care-lined face.

    A True Friend A Novel Adeline Sergeant

  • 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

  • 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

  • She noted the worried, pitiful child face that, screened behind the worn and care-lined features, looked forth like a pretty flower.

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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