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He took a step toward her, ran one hand under her lanternjawed chin, pulled her head against his side and turned up her face.
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He took a step toward her, ran one hand under her lanternjawed chin, pulled her head against his side and turned up her face.
Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Auguste Flume was now above sixty years old, and completely bald; his face was thin, lanternjawed, and cadaverous; and his eyes, which were weak with age, were red and bleared; still he had not that ghastly, sick appearance, which want both of food and rest had given him in the glorious days to which he alluded: after the struggle in La Vendée, he had lived for some time a wretched life, more like that of a beast than
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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"An 'is it mesilf, Dennis Hooligan, that ye'd be takin' for a dirty Injin, ye drawlin ', lanternjawed, spider-legged divil!
Niagra 1871
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