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  • But his retinue,—that squalid, sordid, parti-colored band of vacant, dull-faced filth and viciousness—was writhing over the land, and he and they seemed almost crouching underneath the scorpion lash of one tall skeleton, that looked like Death, and the twisted woman whom men call Pain.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Coetzee delivers like few others on this planet when it comes to eliciting intense feeling, in this instance, anguished, dull-faced loneliness.

    Amis on Coetzee a publicity stunt? 2010

  • You call these empty-eyed dull-faced plastic figurines a ‘quality cast’?

    Stargate SG-1 Axed, Spods Anguished 2010

  • Coetzee delivers like few others on this planet when it comes to eliciting intense feeling, in this instance, anguished, dull-faced loneliness.

    2010 February 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

  • I'd dip a brush in my red fountain and color lips of dull-faced dolls.

    Beards 2009

  • From Number 6 and Number 9, she received dull-faced blank stares.

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • A dull-faced groom went with them, several tactful strides behind so they could at least pretend to be alone.

    Castle Of Deception Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • The soft, pine-laden breezes touched with heavenly fragrance the dull-faced women, the pathetic children, and the unambitious men.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • They were all fishermen, dull-faced, dirty, and out at their elbows.

    Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

  • Only a few years before she had been as one of the countless peasant girls of the dull-faced, ill-dressed, red-handed, coarse-voiced type which we had seen everywhere with tools and implements of drudgery, never with things of refinement, except, perhaps, when we had seen them spinning or weaving.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

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