blue-chinned

Italy was scourged by its hobbledehoys in black shirts; Russia was ruled by the blue-chinned Young; Ireland was devastated by hooligan patriots; presently

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

It was in one of those places, toying with one of those riddles, that he was approached, too abruptly for his liking, by a blue-chinned, dagger-nosed young man with an excess of glower behind his spectacles and an excess of wrinkle in his suit.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

It was in one of those places, toying with one of those riddles, that he was approached, too abruptly for his liking, by a blue-chinned, dagger-nosed young man with an excess of glower behind his spectacles and an excess of wrinkle in his suit.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

He was clean-shaven and blue-chinned, with bristling black hair, and keen brown eyes which shone out very brightly from between pouched under-lids and drooping upper ones.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

At de Freece's he had been kept waiting in the ante-room for two hours in the midst of a bevy of Sparkling Comediennes of pronounced peroxidity and blue-chinned men in dusty bowler-hats, who told each other how they had gone with a bang at Oakham and John o'Groats, and had then gone away in despair.

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928

At Groningen Roman Catholic priests become noticeable -- so different in their stylish coats, square hats and canes, from the blue-chinned kindly slovens that one meets in the Latin countries.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

And by ten o'clock we were quit of Genoa; the last lean, blue-chinned official had left our decks; the last fruitseller had been beaten off with bucketsful of water and left cursing us from his boat; the last passenger had come aboard at the last moment -- a fussy graybeard who kept the big ship waiting while he haggled with his boatman over half a lira.

The Amateur Cracksman 1902

A bulky, blue-chinned man in white clothes, his name red-lettered across his lower shirtfront, spluttering from under a green-lined umbrella almost tearful appeals to be introduced to the Unintroducible; naming loudly the Unnameable; dancing, as it seemed, in perverse joy at mere mention of the Unmentionable -- found those limits.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

He was a heavy-set, blue-chinned man with eyebrows that met in a black band, lending his face a perpetual scowl.

The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest John Henry Goldfrap 1898

Her notions of actors were chiefly drawn from the ramping and roaring performers at minor theatres, and the seedy blue-chinned individuals she had observed hanging about their stage-doors; and the modern comedian was altogether beyond her experience.

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895