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  • I really need to find another grave-looking photo of Mark Gatiss to use here ...

    Issue 0.036 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • I really need to find another grave-looking photo of Mark Gatiss to use here ...

    Jan. 19th, 2009 - Issue 0.036 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • He asked charity of several grave-looking people, who one and all answered him, that if he continued to follow this trade they would have him sent to the house of correction, where he should be taught to get his bread.

    Candide 2007

  • St. Peter, by a grave-looking old gentleman, with a flowing brown beard; and Judas Iscariot by such an enormous hypocrite (I could not make out, though, whether the expression of his face was real or assumed) that if he had acted the part to the death and had gone away and hanged himself, he would have left nothing to be desired.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • But if suddenly you see a grave-looking digging in your backyard, I guess the sheriff should follow up on it.

    CNN Transcript May 9, 2006 2006

  • A grave-looking man in a woolen jacket, a fez, and Cossack boots nodded repeatedly and said, Yes, we all knew him.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • A grave-looking man in a woolen jacket, a fez, and Cossack boots nodded repeatedly and said, Yes, we all knew him.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • A grave-looking man in a woolen jacket, a fez, and Cossack boots nodded repeatedly and said, Yes, we all knew him.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • As he passed, I heard him communicate to a grave-looking man, in a black coat, a slouched hat, and

    Rob Roy 2005

  • So saying, we entered a small low-arched door, secured by a wicket, which a grave-looking person seemed on the point of closing, and descended several steps as if into the funeral vaults beneath the church.

    Rob Roy 2005

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