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His replacement at the Call lampooned Twain in the newspaper—so much for professional courtesy—as a melancholy-looking Arab, known as Marque Twein.
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The family consists of a grown-up son, a shiftless, melancholy-looking youth, who possibly pines for a wider life; a girl of sixteen, a sour, repellent-looking creature, with as much manners as a pig; and three hard, unchild-like younger children.
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There is now, and has been for a long time past, camping about through town, a melancholy-looking Arab, known as Marque Twein…His favorite measure is a pint measure.
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Calling one day to see the Director of Prisons, he found himself in presence of a pale, melancholy-looking man of noble countenance, whose manners, language, and apparent education were those of one polished and cultured.
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She had large, rather melancholy-looking blue eyes.
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"No, no, Madame, you must not say that," said Dessin, who was a tall thin melancholy-looking man.
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He had altered considerably in the lapse of years, there was but little left to remind one of the slight, melancholy-looking boy, that once stood a heavy-hearted little stranger in the same room, in days gone by.
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A threadbare and melancholy-looking man flung pieces of bread to a horde of sea-gulls.
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A girl with a pigtail jumped about in a manner calculated to bring an abrupt and watery conclusion to the passage, till forcibly restrained by her melancholy-looking father.
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His chambers looked out upon a little square, stone-flagged court, with a melancholy-looking pump in the centre of it.
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