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Examples
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The aunt always keeps plainlooking servants for Malachi.
Ulysses 2003
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It was a plainlooking knife, with a bone handle, a blade about eight inches long, and broad in proportion, it did not clasp.
The Idiot 2002
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The aunt always keeps plainlooking servants for Malachi.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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She had described Mrs Fairlie (in writing to me) as ` plainlooking, 'and as having ` entrapped the handsomest man in England into marrying her.'
The Woman in White 1860
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