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Replacing her perfectly groomed 50s lady was an intellectual-looking student type, off to a graduate seminar in politics clad in short sweater dresses made from somber gray chunky knits.

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At San Sebastian we had even a wider range with the English of the little intellectual-looking, pale Spanish waiter, with a fine Napoleonic head, who came to my help when I began to flounder in the language which I had read so much and spoken so little or none.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Many of them were evidently of the upper middle class, well-dressed, and often intellectual-looking people.

The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

Reaching the spot they saw a pale, intellectual-looking Italian working away at his instrument.

The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

During my metropolitan existence -- although I am neither a tailor, nor any trade, nor anything exactly -- I have never beheld a downright intellectual-looking blade of grass.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various

He was a tall, spare, intellectual-looking chap, more like a longshore man than a sailor.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

A tall, intellectual-looking man is seen to withdraw into the grass-plat in the court-yard, and is there heard to appeal to the chimney-pots and stars to note the surpassing beauty of the vocal velvet of the fair MARKHAM.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 Various

'I seated myself,' writes Haydon, 'right opposite Shelley, as I was told afterwards, for I did not then know what hectic, spare, weakly, yet intellectual-looking creature it was, carving a bit of broccoli or cabbage in his plate, as if it had been the substantial wing of a chicken.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

"It must be nice to have a rector ... he is such an intellectual-looking man, so quiet and dignified; just the way a minister should be, instead of like Mr. Copple, who tries to be jolly and get up sociables and parlor meetings."

Different Girls Various

Mr. Bennett rang the bell joyfully, and presently there entered a grave, thin, intellectual-looking man who looked like a duke, only more respectable.

The Girl on the Boat 1928