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  • On their heels, a swarm of motorcycle cops and squad cars – manned by hard-jawed officers in riot gear – began to form an impenetrable barricade on the glitzy “Walk of Fame”.

    Proposition 8…riot police swarm Hollywood streets. Protestors vow to petition courts… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

  • Jason bit into his lip, giving him a hard-jawed look.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • Jason bit into his lip, giving him a hard-jawed look.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • Jason bit into his lip, giving him a hard-jawed look.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • Right then, as she studied his handsome, hard-jawed profile, shehonestlydespised the man.

    Mistress On Demand Cox, Maggie 2005

  • Jason bit into his lip, giving him a hard-jawed look.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • He was the grim, hard-jawed, arrogant, demanding aristocrat he had been that first morning at Pinewood.

    No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

  • His face was bony, hard-jawed, but his features were open and regular; a bit Scandinavian, maybe, except that expressions played across them like shifting light.

    Chase the Morning Rohan, Michael Scott 1990

  • The dwarf snorted as Caramon settled back, hard-jawed but silent.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Lake, a tall, hard-jawed man with pale blue eyes under pale brows, walked forth to meet him as soon as he recognized him.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

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