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  • In August 1921, the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, reported that a schooner lying off the uninhabited island of Nomans Land, about twenty miles away, was “dispensing refreshment in a truly hospitable manner to all drought-ridden individuals who can sail, row or swim out to the trim-looking fisherman.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • These Bavarians were trim-looking soldiers, dressed in neat uniforms of light blue; they looked healthy and strong, but seemed of shorter stature than the North Germans I had seen in the armies of Prince Frederick Charles and General von Steinmetz.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • In August 1921, the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, reported that a schooner lying off the uninhabited island of Nomans Land, about twenty miles away, was “dispensing refreshment in a truly hospitable manner to all drought-ridden individuals who can sail, row or swim out to the trim-looking fisherman.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • A newly trim-looking Osbourne, 22, has signed on to costar in the musical Chicago in London's West End, the Associated Press reports.

    Kelly Osbourne Solves Your Deepest Problems On Radio 1 2007

  • However, to the Samnite leader Duilius, the two trim-looking legions which appeared on the road from Aquinum seemed far from ready to tackle an ambush.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • The door was opened by a trim-looking man with bold features and graying hair.

    A STRANGER IS WATCHING MARY HIGGINS CLARK 1977

  • The second an elderly but still trim-looking Hawker Hart.

    The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959

  • He would have been still more interested if he could have seen a trim-looking black vessel in a small cove directly west but a good many miles distant.

    Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power Wyn Roosevelt

  • Midsummer came, and by that time the desert was a desert no longer: it was a neat, trim-looking piece of ground with smooth walks, some small but promising crops, and a flower-border gay with geraniums, nasturtiums, sweet-peas, nemophila, and convolvulus.

    Holiday Tales Florence Wilford

  • Presently a small boat, containing three men, was lowered, for the sea was very smooth, and in a little while a trim-looking lieutenant was at the accommodation ladder of the Tartar.

    The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar Margaret Penrose

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