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  • A drive that begins with a harsh-looking roughing the passer call against Carter is kept alive when Rivers connects with Jackson on third and four, the receiver collecting the pass on a slant before cutting up field for a gain of 28 yards.

    NFL: San Diego Chargers 21-35 New England Patriots - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011

  • She approached Kadohata, standing midway between the two groups with a harsh-looking Selkie man wearing high rank insignia on his uniform breast.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

  • She approached Kadohata, standing midway between the two groups with a harsh-looking Selkie man wearing high rank insignia on his uniform breast.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

  • This generation was treated so delicately that many schoolteachers stopped grading papers and tests in harsh-looking red ink.

    The 'Trophy Kids' Go to Work 2008

  • Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts.

    The Python Paradox 2004

  • I agree, though, that Fruma is a little harsh-looking.

    Hereville 2004

  • Jim tried to stay in the background, but while the leader of the native groupnalean, harsh-looking lizard with an air of haughtiness notable even for his normally haughty racenspoke with Korkal, he stared at Jim.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • Lew was hustled into the building, where a harsh-looking man in Army uniform sat at a reception desk.

    Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

  • Scarecrow and the others were shocked and outraged at the spectacle of the = harsh-looking woman brazenly occupying Ozma's throne, while at her side = stood the fierce-visaged man.

    The Magical Mimics in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1946

  • To-night masses of harsh-looking clouds sped across the sky before an icy wind from the mountains.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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