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His interrogator in the prison is Inspector Pick, an obese and olive-complexioned Slav like an "elegant seal", whose swelling flesh "curved rather than bulged".
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski – review 2011
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— Make an extra effort to include olive-complexioned and darker men and women, Sikhs, Muslims and devout religious people of all types in arts, business, society columns and all other news and feature coverage, not just stories about the crisis.
Diversity guidelines for journalists??? GayandRight 2008
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This fact has been observed by all who have taken accurate accounts of births and deaths in Europe; and it is thought that it is the same in Asia, and among the negresses, the copper-colored, and olive-complexioned, as among the white.
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He was olive-complexioned, eyes bright with a blend of innocence, youth, and exuberance.
Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003
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He is tall and olive-complexioned, with a clipped salt-and-pepper beard and a starched shalwar kameez.
The Lawless Frontier 2000
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He is tall and olive-complexioned, with a clipped salt-and-pepper beard and a starched shalwar kameez.
The Lawless Frontier 2000
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Burke noted that his olive-complexioned forehead wasn't even damp.
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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A big, raw-boned, powerful but unhandsome horse, dappled from cream to darkest grey, and the rider a young fellow black-haired and olive-complexioned, with a thin, assured, saturnine face and an arrogantly easy carriage in the saddle.
One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979
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The olive-complexioned redhead grinned at him and turned back to her stack of boxes on the deck.
Code Three Rick Raphael 1956
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The average Australian boy is a slim, olive-complexioned young rascal, fond of Cavendish, cricket, and chuck-penny, and systematically insolent to girls, policemen, and new chums ....
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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