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Examples
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Had she been short-haired, heavy-jawed, large - muscled, hard-bitten, and utterly unlovely in every way, all would have been well.
Chapter 6 2010
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This man, William Sherbourne, was a gross and stolid creature, a heavy-jawed man of the working class who had become a successful building-contractor in a small way.
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His red heavy-jawed face was made for joviality, but his small brown eyes were wary, constantly moving.
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He had long, thick arms and a brutal, heavy-jawed face -
Golden State 2010
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He wasn't gigantic in the full daylight, but he was big enough, his face broad and heavy-jawed but not unhandsome, the eyes I hadn't been able to make out at our first meeting a brownish green.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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At a quayside, a car transporter opens its heavy-jawed cargo doors to emit three thousand family saloons which have spent twenty days at sea since leaving their assembly plant at Ulsan, on the Korean peninsula.
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At once I saw in imagination the strong, heavy-jawed, greedy, flat
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It was a huge heavy-jawed dog of some unfamiliar breed, and it, wore a spike-studded collar.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Rathlee, forty-two years old, five-seven, two hundred pounds, was a broad-shouldered, heavy-jawed man with reddish brown hair, a matching handlebar mustache, and hazel eyes.
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Rathlee, forty-two years old, five-seven, two hundred pounds, was a broad-shouldered, heavy-jawed man with reddish brown hair, a matching handlebar mustache, and hazel eyes.
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