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  • Tall and well-proportioned, with a boyish face, short-cropped hair, and an engaging smile, Gamal Mubarak looks more like his Welsh-Egyptian mother, Suzanne, than like the stout and flat-featured President.

    Pharaohs-in-Waiting 2003

  • Tall and well-proportioned, with a boyish face, short-cropped hair, and an engaging smile, Gamal Mubarak looks more like his Welsh-Egyptian mother, Suzanne, than like the stout and flat-featured President.

    Pharaohs-in-Waiting 2003

  • It was joined momentarily by a second one and then a head—round, bald, with the standard two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but flat-featured, with wide, narrow eyes, mere nostril flaps for a nose, a grin full of jagged teeth, and ears that flopped over and ended in points.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • It was joined momentarily by a second one and then a head—round, bald, with the standard two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but flat-featured, with wide, narrow eyes, mere nostril flaps for a nose, a grin full of jagged teeth, and ears that flopped over and ended in points.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • It was joined momentarily by a second one and then a head—round, bald, with the standard two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but flat-featured, with wide, narrow eyes, mere nostril flaps for a nose, a grin full of jagged teeth, and ears that flopped over and ended in points.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • The smaller man's dark eyes glittered in his round, flat-featured face, somehow accusing Chekov of something too unspecific to state out loud.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • It did not matter that Miranda was insignificant and commonplace and flat-featured.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • Nubians, pale Arabs, flat-featured Mongolians -- all sincere and honest in this one thing at least, their absolute belief in, and surrender to

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • He was a sallow youth with a broad, flat-featured, British face, but he had achieved an appearance of great strangeness and distinction by letting his hay-coloured hair grow long and cultivating two beards instead of one.

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

  • With its broad, white, dial-plate, high shoulders, and dark mahogany case, it looked not unlike a tall, flat-featured man, holding himself stiffly erect.

    Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

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