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There were several ugly scratches on his barklike cheeks, but no other signs of violence.

The Body Ricardo 2010

He was most people's nightmare, a reckless millionaire with the values of a delinquent and a barklike laugh.

Beard 2010

His barklike skin was of a more greenish hue, even taking into account the current surroundings.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

His barklike skin was of a more greenish hue, even taking into account the current surroundings.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

His barklike skin was of a more greenish hue, even taking into account the current surroundings.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

They agreed, on the whole, with my theory that it might be even nicer if it were thinner and more barklike.

Candy? Lindy 2006

There were several ugly scratches on his barklike cheeks, but no other signs of violence.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

They even had a rough barklike surface etched onto them, and truncated pruned limbs poking out helter-skelter.

Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

Pansy Parkinson gave a shriek of laughter that turned almost at once into a scream, as the twigs on the table leapt into the air and revealed themselves to be what looked like tiny pixie-ish creatures made of wood, each with knobbly brown arms and legs, two twiglike fingers at the end of each hand and a funny flat, barklike face in which a pair of beetle-brown eyes glittered.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

Of course, Mother Nature is full of contradictions, he added, and that's where the juxtaposition of lace and wool, or feminine sheers with tough, barklike fabrics come in.

ABC News: Top Stories 2011