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  • The mugs of Mick and the boyswere haggard and deeply-lined; a roadmapwhich reflectedthe downside of their jet-setting, party-hearty lifestyle, eh?

    Rolling Stones…Shine the light documentary! Directed by Scorsese… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

  • Alexander Andreievitch is a short, squarely built man with short, iron-grey hair and a broad, deeply-lined face that does not often smile.

    A Christmas Story, by Sarban « raincoaster 2006

  • The man was approaching seventy years of age, with a deeply-lined face and black, angry eyes.

    The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

  • The big, gaunt man, with deeply-lined face and iron grey moustache, who had paused to smile at the conversation, feigned an expression of disapproval as she looked up smilingly into his face.

    Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

  • She leant back against her seat and looked pitifully at his kind deeply-lined old face.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • His face peeped out from under his sheepskin, a sunken, battered, and deeply-lined face, of the same colour as the earth he had tilled for so many years; with a shock of hair, grey as the furrows of ploughed fields in autumn.

    Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

  • A fleeting sarcastic smile dwelt on his deeply-lined features as he watched a number of boats, filled with noisy, gesticulating campers, who fished in the open water where no fish lived.

    Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

  • His brilliant eyes, his gaunt hands, his white, deeply-lined forehead, all entered into his speech.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

  • She was a tall, ungainly woman, with a flat, sexless body and a deeply-lined face almost the color of her own salt-raised bread.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • His brilliant eyes, his gaunt hands, his white, deeply-lined forehead, all entered into his speech.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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