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genteel-looking

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  • It was a genteel-looking Beaux-Arts structure squeezed between a pizzeria and a bookshop.

    ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010

  • What is so interesting about Frightmare is that it tries to bridge the gap from Gothic-tinged Hammer horror think fog-shrouded cemeteries, genteel-looking old men in Dracula capes, damsels in distress with the kids-being-stalked-by-an-unstoppable-killer slasher formula.

    Frightmare (1983) 2010

  • It was a genteel-looking Beaux-Arts structure squeezed between a pizzeria and a bookshop.

    ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010

  • They were got about two miles beyond Barnet, and it was now the dusk of the evening, when a genteel-looking man, but upon a very shabby horse, rode up to Jones, and asked him whether he was going to London; to which Jones answered in the affirmative.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • A very genteel-looking young lady, she thought, slim and pretty, with intelligent eyes.

    A Christmas Bride Balogh, Mary 1997

  • He was poor but genteel-looking, and his heart as snow was white,

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • They were thinking that perhaps the Black Spanish Hen would call them genteel-looking also, but she didn't.

    Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

  • "That is a remarkably genteel-looking man for one in his condition," remarked the oldest of the group.

    Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill

  • I had nearly forgotten to point out a very genteel-looking young man in black, who wears a distressingly long frock coat and a white neckcloth, who escorts Mrs. Meeker to her carriage, and enters it after her.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

  • The stranger was a fine, intelligent, genteel-looking person, who proved to be a clergyman whom Alice had once before met at the Flume-House.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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