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  • Short and firm-featured, he stood with an imperious air.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it!

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • An oval face, firm-featured and by nature grave, with a lofty forehead and strong cheekbones, and clear ivory skin, smooth and youthful.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • An oval face, firm-featured and by nature grave, with a lofty forehead and strong cheekbones, and clear ivory skin, smooth and youthful.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • His fine, firm-featured face would have struck one as rather stern if one happened to miss that blessed kindliness which always lighted his steady eyes.

    Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway James Bayard Clark

  • Without thinking, he found himself opening the door for his guest, diminutive though he was, -- but the boy stood there as if he had not seen him do it, and it was written clear on his face that he had not yet finished the business that brought him; the anxious look was still strong on his ruddy face, firm-featured beyond his years.

    Seven Icelandic Short Stories Various

  • It was good to meet again an Englishman, a sturdy, firm-featured Englishman, whose love of the

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • He was watching Cranly's firm-featured suffering face, lit up now by a smile of false patience.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • He was watching Cranly's firm-featured suffering face, lit up now by a smile of false patience.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • He was watching Cranly's firm-featured suffering face, lit up now by a smile of false patience.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

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