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Examples
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Behind him were the waxen-faced officer and the black-uniformed guards.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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I would like to see how waxen-faced Priscilla Presley fares.
Priscilla Presley Set To Shake Her Stuff | Best Week Ever 2008
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Behind him were the waxen-faced officer and the black-uniformed guards.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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The color is already beginning to bleach from the scene as a waxen-faced German officer questions his age.
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Nine hours later, a British rescue boat picked up the ten waxen-faced crewmen.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Nine hours later, a British rescue boat picked up the ten waxen-faced crewmen.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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He looked over at the table where Lewin still sat huddled under his coat, waxen-faced, shrunken somehow.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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Behind him were the waxen-faced officer and the black-uniformed guards.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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They were Jews, waxen-faced, their thin bodies bent with fatigue.
Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 Ruth Pierce
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A dark, waxen-faced young man who seems asleep, whose arms hang limp, whose fingers curl in.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
relishandbeans commented on the word waxen-faced
A face pale or smooth as wax
July 9, 2014