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  • As a young woman, looking fresh and hot and tight-skinned is always bittersweet, if you are at all aware.

    Kate Fridkis: Coming to Terms with Aging 2010

  • She was a pretty thing, little and slim and tight-skinned.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • She wasn't even handsome, he thought in surprise, just tight-skinned and waspish.

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

  • She was a pretty thing, little and slim and tight-skinned.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Mr. Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual.

    The Crucible Miller, Arthur 1953

  • Those gaunt, tight-skinned faces, that peculiar listening expression that comes from long intimacy with the sea – Yes, these men, or their like, would do for his errand, if Rodriguez couldn't go with him.

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

  • A few pink, blue-eyed, tight-skinned, clean-looking babies, smiling upon the world ....

    A Book of Burlesques 1918

  • The man, with fiercely shining eyes and hawk nose, hunching up his round shoulders as he clenched and unclenched his pudgy hands, deeply hidden in his pockets, was horribly pathetic to Vanno, who tried not to see the little bright beads that oozed out of the tight-skinned forehead.

    The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

  • Countess standing near the Duke, felt some pity for the wife of that cropped-headed, tight-skinned lunatic at large, but deeper was the

    Evan Harrington — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Countess standing near the Duke, felt some pity for the wife of that cropped-headed, tight-skinned lunatic at large, but deeper was the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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