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  • To think of passing the winter evenings by the parlour fire-side of Seacombe Rectory alone with one of them — for instance, the large and well-modelled statue,

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • He winked not in the least vulgarly; his thin red face with a well-modelled curved nose, had a sort of distinction — the more so that when he talked to her he looked with a steadier and more intelligent glance.

    To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad 2004

  • I took home with me the girls who had appealed to me least, I stroked their virginal tresses, I admired a well-modelled little nose, a Spanish pallor.

    The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

  • She had a frank face, a well-modelled mouth, was much more feminine than one would have expected of someone who heaped up academic honours.

    Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

  • Long suede gloves, buttoned to the elbow, outlined her well-modelled arms, of which the upper part emerged, without sleeves, from lace ruffles gathered in the form of epaulets.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • The ware of this period is on the whole well - refined and well-modelled: the most graceful shapes, in jugs and bowls, belong to it.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • The castor sugar is invariably served in a tall silver basin -- that is to say, the bowl, with its two elegant handles, stands on a well-modelled pillar about eight or ten inches high, altogether a very superior and majestic form of sugar basin.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • One was dark and the other fair, but both had the same haggard, well-modelled faces, the same pale skins, and thin, supple figures.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • Howard Snelling glanced down at his slender, well-modelled hands with their carefully manicured nails.

    Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • He was a well-modelled man of great physical strength, and still agile and lithe for his age; but his hair was an ugly straw colour and his clean-shorn, pale face lacked any sort of distinction save an indication of moral purpose, character, and pugnacity.

    The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911

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