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  • He was a light, kind of red-complexioned Negro, as I was; about my height, and he had freckles.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • I also knew Sy Oliver; he was married to a red-complexioned girl, and they lived up on Sugar Hill; Sy did a lot of arranging for Tommy Dorsey in those days.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • He let me precede him through the door, then made for the counter while the other sailor, a red-complexioned character about the size and shape of a polar bear, nudged me gently into an angled bench seat in one corner of the room.

    Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

  • He went up to the desk, behind which, stood a burly, red-complexioned man who greeted him effusively, yet with the air of respect accorded the powerful.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Russ, like Rush, is one of the many forms of Fr. roux, red-complexioned (Chapter II).

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • He went up to the desk, behind which, stood a burly, red-complexioned man who greeted him effusively, yet with the air of respect accorded the powerful.

    The Dwelling Place of Light β€” Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • He went up to the desk, behind which, stood a burly, red-complexioned man who greeted him effusively, yet with the air of respect accorded the powerful.

    The Dwelling Place of Light β€” Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • That all attempts should have failed to settle the character and social standing of those red-complexioned, rather dull-witted gentlemen, who clasped one another in such undecipherable opacity, was almost more than May could bear.

    A Venetian June Anna Fuller 1884

  • She rose and found the stranger full before her in the doorway, gazing at her with an enormous pair of sloe-black eyes, under heavy inky brows, set in a hard, red-complexioned face.

    Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • At the gatehouse, a porter came out to greet us, accompanied by a big red-complexioned man who remarked in a bass Welsh accent that he’d just been having a gossip with his friend the porter here, and would show us the way inside.

    To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

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