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They chose a small table near the window, opposite a longfaced man whose beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard. —
Ulysses 2003
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They were solemn enough about the fencing of the tables, serious and longfaced enough were ministers and elders as the bread and wine were handed round, but the minister's wife, poor body, found it took her all her time to preserve an earnest spirituality and to search her soul as the roasts and pies and puddings spread out on the manse dining-table haunted her anxious mind.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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I hain't seen him look so longfaced since -- since he was paid up on a sartin note I knows of, jest as he was smackin 'his lips over a nice fat farm that was comin' to him!
Just David 1916
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They chose a small table near the window, opposite a longfaced man whose beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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I hain't seen him look so longfaced since -- since he was paid up on
Just David 1894
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Who is this longfaced ladydrone in the Nancy Reagan red outfits, (and why do business failures become economic advisers)?
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Who is this longfaced ladydrone in the Nancy Reagan red outfits, (and why do business failures become economic advisers)?
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