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  • He is a fresh-complexioned, middle-sized young man, not far one would guess, from his thirtieth year.

    Chennai 2010

  • This reminiscence is in the height of its success, when a general proposal is made to the fresh-complexioned, smooth-faced officer, with the strange air of simplicity, to tell the ‘Butcher’s

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • She was rather thin, but young, and fresh-complexioned, and her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • He did it slowly so that Irina could see first above the rim of the box a mass of dark curls entangled in his fingers, then the hair pulling taut between his hand and a rising forehead of fresh-complexioned skin.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • “Among the men you saw in the bar from time to time, do you remember a fresh-complexioned youth who rides a delivery bicycle?”

    Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

  • Byron's "Bride of Abydos" or his "Giaour;" take some such charming creature, fair and fresh-complexioned, white and pink, and plunge her in the atmosphere of the harem, which will orientalise her charms and give her that -- whatever it is -- which characterises the undulating fascinations of the sultanas.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • The skater was a tall, fresh-complexioned, slender youth, of about seventeen, bold, active, and graceful in his movements, but having the appearance of one whose growth had been a little too rapid for an equal development of health and strength; and indeed it was only on condition that he should submit carefully to the directions of La Salle that his father had consented to the present expedition.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • She was a sweet, fresh-complexioned, matronly woman.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

  • They have seen, as I have seen, the bombed and blasted people, the horror of disfigurement of splintered glass on the faces of young children that were a short second before fresh-complexioned and finely-moulded and beautiful.

    London Under the Robot Bomb 1944

  • His youth, fresh-complexioned, high-collared, and side-whiskered (odd fashions people followed in those days), at the mercy of five hundred unprincipled ruffians to whom the baiting of new masters was a fine art, an exciting sport, and something of a tradition.

    Goodbye, Mr Chips Hilton, James, 1900-1954 1938

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