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haughty-looking

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  • She turned her attention to these now, and was standing before a full-length portrait of a haughty-looking young woman in a yellow crinoline when the door opened and the doctor came in.

    Politics 101 2010

  • A haughty-looking perfectly realistic male Sprite, but only half Hantis 'size.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Almost at the same time I heard footsteps, dignified, quiet, unhurried, and a tall figure of a handsome and haughty-looking young man (he seemed to me then even thinner and paler than when I met him to-day) appeared in the doorway a yard from the door leading into the passage.

    A Raw Youth 2003

  • I knew another of these seraphs — the prettiest, or, at any rate, the least demure and hypocritical looking of the lot: she was seated by the daughter of an English peer, also an honest, though haughty-looking girl: both had entered in the suite of the British embassy.

    Villette 2003

  • Americans mostly, a sprinkling of Germans, and a haughty-looking woman with a meek husband who had flown up from London.

    A Kind Of Magic Neels, Betty 1991

  • Then there was a quiet, straight-haired girl called Vera Johns and a rather haughty-looking girl called Sheila Naylor, whose manners were very arrogant.

    The Twins At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • Upon the entrance of a tall, and, as I thought at the time, rather haughty-looking lady, I rose, bowed and continued standing, as she said, --

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • He was a tall man of commanding presence, a little cold and haughty-looking, though his lips indicated a genial nature, and he could not altogether suppress the grave amusement in his eyes.

    The Mystery of the Four Fingers

  • When the King had ascended the throne and seated himself (the princes of the blood royal who followed His Majesty being ranged upon the steps of the dais to his right and his ministers below and in front), there was another call from the heralds-at-arms, and Marie Antoinette, beautiful, pallid, and haughty-looking, appeared at the entrance, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the members of her immediate household.

    Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

  • A beautiful and haughty-looking woman of over forty years entered the room.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

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