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  • He hired a nurse, a grim-visaged professional named Miss Mabel McGillicuddy.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • He hired a nurse, a grim-visaged professional named Miss Mabel McGillicuddy.

    "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Then she stood, grim-visaged, and marched resolutely into the temple.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • Then she stood, grim-visaged, and marched resolutely into the temple.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • Noisy vetturini and muddy market-carts were disputing possession of the yard, which was ankle-deep in dirt, with a brood of splashed and bespattered geese; and there was a grim-visaged dog, viciously panting in

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Duchien was a grim-visaged little man, his dour face belied by an expansive soul worthy of a Wetlands merchant after a big spice deal.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • He gestured in the direction of the two grim-visaged combatants.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • I must travel all through the garden on my knees, saying rosaries every hour on the hour, with my grim-visaged duenna by my side.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • Nef, who would much rather have been in her warm room listening to the radio, was grim-visaged indeed.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • It was decorated with a rather grim-visaged figurehead; with her formidable bare bosom and tangled curls all spangled with salt, the lady looked as though she didn't enjoy sea air all that much.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

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