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Postcards were issued of the pale-faced earnest-looking teenager, and he was fêted as a turn-of-the-century celebrity.
Armistice Day recalls Arthur Collins' imperishable cricketing feat | Frank Keating 2011
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An earnest-looking Napolitano appeared in a "see something, say something" public-service announcement at the height of the holiday season that aired near checkout stands for Walmart shoppers as they waited to ring up cartloads of plastic goodness.
G.W. Schulz: 'Big Sister' Continues Push for Suspicious Activity Program G.W. Schulz 2011
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An earnest-looking Napolitano appeared in a "see something, say something" public-service announcement at the height of the holiday season that aired near checkout stands for Walmart shoppers as they waited to ring up cartloads of plastic goodness.
G.W. Schulz: 'Big Sister' Continues Push for Suspicious Activity Program G.W. Schulz 2011
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An earnest-looking Napolitano appeared in a "see something, say something" public-service announcement at the height of the holiday season that aired near checkout stands for Walmart shoppers as they waited to ring up cartloads of plastic goodness.
G.W. Schulz: 'Big Sister' Continues Push for Suspicious Activity Program G.W. Schulz 2011
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They showed me into a morning-room and presently she came to me, an earnest-looking girl in a dark dress with a touch of black in it.
Movie Night 2010
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The Corrections was written by a fairly unknown, earnest-looking guy with glasses.
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So earnest-looking she is, and pretty at the same time — not such a bad way for him to ease into the immigrant life.
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The table was surrounded by earnest-looking women and a single male doctor, who looked ill at ease, albeit in a jovial kind of way.
Ed Miliband is more of a wuss than I thought Simon Hoggart 2010
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The Danish commander who came looking for Paddy was the spitting image of Harry Potter: small round glasses, young, earnest-looking; a real wizard superstar.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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I could've lived without the earnest-looking petition and pamphlet people blocking the exits, though.
Busy day upcoming moriarty6 2006
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