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  • "My lad, you've got a figure and a 'physog' that'll sure turn every gal's head that takes a slant at 'em."

    Colorado Jim George Goodchild

  • I don, t recall seeing his physog on the tele once or heard him comment on the violence and anti semitism.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Sandy clapped me soundly on the back as he passed, remarking that it was 'Bloody good to see your old physog on the horizon again, even if you do look like an understudy for Scarface.'

    Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962

  • I looked up at sound of a startled exclamation, and beheld the round African physog of Lyn Rowan's colored mammy.

    Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Cotherstone, that he saw graces in Old Crutch's physog, with the charming "thousand to forty" he hoped to draw him of on the Tuesday

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • His mother thought that he had just the physog of an admiral, and when the matter was put to himsell, Benjie said quite briskly he would like to be a gentleman.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • "Perhaps in the course of time your uncle will give you a job making up faces as his understudy, seeing that his physog is getting so tough he can't manage it very well these days."

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

  • The Doctor immediately bade him lie quiet and hush, as he was getting a needle and silken thread ready to sew it up; ordering me to have a basin and water ready, to wash the poor lad's physog.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

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