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  • The ferret-faced Murtagh helped me, tearing strips of linen, fetching more water, and lifting the patient up to have the dressing tied on, Jamie being strictly forbidden to move himself, despite his grumbling that he was perfectly all right.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Even if they could get the ferret-faced fool back into the Senate, its still not clear to me how they'd spin the coming indictments.

    GOP's Spin On Coleman Reaches New Heights 2009

  • After enough time had gone by for me to carefully check out all the equipment and supplies in the room twice, the ferret-faced woman came in claiming to be the doctor.

    Dr. Cuckoo-Head, I Presume? « XUP 2008

  • My friend replied that she was bony and pallid and ferret-faced.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • My friend replied that she was bony and pallid and ferret-faced.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Flavia 2007

  • A few feet away Cornelius Hickey, the caulker's mate, barely five feet tall, beady-eyed and ferret-faced, was pulling his suspenders into place.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • It was ferret-faced Cornelius Hickey who came to Crozier late on Friday night with the request.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Collective heads turned as a ferret-faced, pale-skinned man in a dark suit and a purple silk shirt unbuttoned too low, came through the crowd carrying a cardboard box.

    Angels and Outlaws Vanzura, Laurie 2006

  • I see women marrying indiscriminately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, white-eyed boys, and men dwell in contentment with noisy scullions, or taking into their lives acidulous vestals.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • He set it on the shoulders of a ferret-faced demon who was about to squish a butterfly under his foot.

    Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002

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