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  • Snubby thought of the cross-looking, dour man he had seen the night before.

    Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

  • The old principal lodger, a cross-looking creature, who was thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean a great deal, without his suspecting the fact.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Asian girls wearing thick eyeglasses and paper hats called out—“Come here, boys, come”—beckoning us over to their tofu and green beans, to their Thai chicken skewers in satay, to the woks where a cross-looking chef was repeatedly plopping steamy portions of sweet-sour pork onto rice.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Asian girls wearing thick eyeglasses and paper hats called out—“Come here, boys, come”—beckoning us over to their tofu and green beans, to their Thai chicken skewers in satay, to the woks where a cross-looking chef was repeatedly plopping steamy portions of sweet-sour pork onto rice.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Asian girls wearing thick eyeglasses and paper hats called out—“Come here, boys, come”—beckoning us over to their tofu and green beans, to their Thai chicken skewers in satay, to the woks where a cross-looking chef was repeatedly plopping steamy portions of sweet-sour pork onto rice.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Asian girls wearing thick eyeglasses and paper hats called out—“Come here, boys, come”—beckoning us over to their tofu and green beans, to their Thai chicken skewers in satay, to the woks where a cross-looking chef was repeatedly plopping steamy portions of sweet-sour pork onto rice.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Sad, cross-looking little fellow is standing miserably at the bottom of the staircase of a brothel.

    X-raying the obese is "like watching TV without cable or an antenna." Ann Althouse 2007

  • If you see a very cross-looking munkey scarpering frantically amidst the late-night shoppers over the next few days, chances are it'll be me.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • If you see a very cross-looking munkey scarpering frantically amidst the late-night shoppers over the next few days, chances are it'll be me.

    december the fucking 20th already?! how did that happen?! 2006

  • That evening I was given a freshly pressed school uniform to wear, and a hurried and cross-looking Sister Twitchett told me to don it quickly.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

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