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  • The small, dark-faced monkeys, who never made war on anybody, twitch uncontrollably, convulse, vomit and lose bowel control while medical trainees watch.

    Kathy Guillermo: How Not to Save Lives Kathy Guillermo 2011

  • A thin, dark-faced boy rushed up to us, his windbreaker zipped up against the predawn desert cold.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • A thin, dark-faced boy rushed up to us, his windbreaker zipped up against the predawn desert cold.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • This kind of patriotism -- which is at the heart of the war on terror -- is very much akin to what was expressed in a 1908 editorial cartoon I ran into: an enraged Statue of Liberty kicking a cage full of foreigners, whom you can recognize as such because they are dark-faced, curly-haired, hook-nosed and are clutching bombs and knives.

    Aleksandar Hemon discusses The Lazarus Project 2010

  • Pushing Gisella's hands away, he rushed to the side of a broad, squat, bearded, dark-faced dwarf in a high-necked, drab-colored dress.

    Stalling 2010

  • When the dark-faced boy arrived at the shop next day with his brass marketing bowl there was quite a fair gathering of customers, most of whom seemed to be spinning out their purchasing operations with the air of people who had very little to do with their time.

    literature 2007

  • "Has a dark-faced boy been here buying pomegranates?" he asked suddenly, as the coffee was being weighed out to him.

    literature 2007

  • "Has the dark-faced boy, of whom I spoke yesterday, been here to - day?" asked the stranger.

    literature 2007

  • The stranger in town, a dark-faced man, dressed all in black!

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • From one of these sorties he did not return; he had dashed away into the dusk, and neither he nor the dark-faced boy nor the veiled lady were seen again by the expectant crowds that continued to throng the

    literature 2007

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