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As he dialed the NYRT Corporation, the expression on his craglike face was almost pleasant.
Bad Medicine Robert Sheckley 1966
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Webster a cathedral; and surely there must have been something in those enormous, burning eyes, that craglike brow, that smote even the most superficial observer into an admiration which was almost awe.
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery
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A cautious survey of the craglike face of his father showed no traces of a sleepless night; but then, what could a single night of unrest mean to that body of iron?
Trailin'! Max Brand 1918
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The tanned complexion; the amorphous, craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berserker rage that I remember of in any other man.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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His friend and counselor, the one man in life upon whom he leaned, was gone, and over his own great, craglike face came that look of sorrow which death only removed.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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The school-room at Glenfernie gave upon the hill's steepest, most craglike face.
Foes Mary Johnston 1903
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His friend and counselor, the one man in life upon whom he leaned, was gone, and over his own great, craglike face came that look of sorrow which death only removed.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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The tanned complexion; the amorphous, craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berserker rage that I remember of in any other man.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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That's Mortimer's Hole, a craglike entrance through which the soldiers of Edward III supposedly entered the castle at Nottingham and captured Roger de Mortimer in 1330.
Gizmodo Kyle VanHemert 2011
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The tanned complexion; that amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be _blown_; the mastiff mouth, accurately closed; I have not traced so much of _silent Berserkir rage_ that I remember of in any other man.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 Daniel Webster 1817
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