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frightful-looking

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  • One large piece of the frightful-looking green weed dangles below his chin.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Hey Readers: Are you Out There?" Claudia Ricci 2011

  • We found seats next to the ice station, where our bartender was doing an admirable imitation of Tony Perkins in Psycho, attacking a massive block of ice with a frightful-looking pick and afflicting those in the vicinity with small, sleety squalls.

    Old-Fashioned 2009

  • We found seats next to the ice station, where our bartender was doing an admirable imitation of Tony Perkins in Psycho, attacking a massive block of ice with a frightful-looking pick and afflicting those in the vicinity with small, sleety squalls.

    Old-Fashioned 2009

  • One large piece of the frightful-looking green weed dangles below his chin.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Hey Readers: Are you Out There?" Claudia Ricci 2011

  • We found seats next to the ice station, where our bartender was doing an admirable imitation of Tony Perkins in Psycho, attacking a massive block of ice with a frightful-looking pick and afflicting those in the vicinity with small, sleety squalls.

    Old-Fashioned 2009

  • Some are suspended to the vaulted roof by chains, and in frightful-looking positions; others are on the perpendicular walls.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • They were the eyes of giant crustacea crouched in their holes; giant lobsters setting themselves up like halberdiers, and moving their claws with the clicking sound of pincers; titanic crabs, pointed like a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, interweaving their tentacles like a living nest of serpents.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • Tench was a frightful-looking woman—not the kind of face a President wanted delivering the White House message.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Tench was a frightful-looking woman – not the kind of face a President wanted delivering the White House message.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Some of the shipwrecked crew have since stated that they were fearful, on seeing the frightful-looking seas they were passing through, that they were in more danger in the lifeboat than when lashed to the mast of their sunken ship, as they thought it impossible for any boat to live through such a sea. '

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

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