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The chap had no balance at all, if he remembered; as for symmetry — clean-built enough he was, no doubt; but those queer eyes of his, and high cheek-bones — Symmetry?
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Slightly above middle height, well-set-up and strongly, though not heavily made, the lines of his clean-built figure suggested the embodiment of grace, strength and activity.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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Mrs. Hardy looked on the clean-built young man with the dark eyes and the brown, smooth face, but the name suggested nothing.
The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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Thus it was that, on the morning after this dialogue, a clean-built young fellow walked along West Sixteenth Street, appreciatively sniffing the sunny crispness of the May air.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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A lean, clean-built young fellow stood beside the porch.
A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today William MacLeod Raine 1912
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They were a clean-built, pleasant lot; good people to know anywhere, but of no unusual interest.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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But the average good cow-pony is apt to be an exceedingly handsome animal, clean-built, graceful.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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There were active, clean-built, precise Frenchmen, with small hands and feet, and a peculiarly trim way of wearing their rough garments; typical native-born
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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It was a fine animal, clean-built, deep-chested, one of the mustang stock descended from the Arabs brought over by Pizarro.
Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909
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What's YOUR name? 'he cried to one of the hands, a lean-flanked, clean-built fellow from some far western island, and of a darkness almost approaching to the African.
The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907
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