once-smooth

Those around her misread it as joy—such is the ruin that time has made of her once-smooth skin.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Those around her misread it as joy—such is the ruin that time has made of her once-smooth skin.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Yet I can tell most of the lines on her once-smooth complexion are due to stress.

Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010

The beautiful hair I see in those old pictures is now flecked with gray at least until I make it to my hair colorist, and wrinkles are taking over my once-smooth skin.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women Susan M. Heim 2009

The beautiful hair I see in those old pictures is now flecked with gray at least until I make it to my hair colorist, and wrinkles are taking over my once-smooth skin.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women Susan M. Heim 2009

Others are inspired by wives who have had successful procedures--or are kind enough to ask why their husbands' once-smooth brows now appear permanently furrowed.

Most Popular Plastic Surgery for Men 2006

The black of dirt and old blood caked under the nails and in the tiny creases in the once-smooth skin.

Hard Truth Barr, Nevada 2005

What was happening instead was that the once-smooth lines of the ship were bending and distorting as Angelmass traced out a leisurely path of destruction through bracing girders and supporting bulkheads, twisting and tearing them out of line and crumpling them like thin foil.

Angelmass Zahn, Timothy 2001

His once-smooth shoulders were now adorned with tusks hollowed out to inject scorpion-fish poison in anyone he fought.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

As the wind whispered through the evergreens, clumps of snow splattered around them, leaving pockmarks scattered on the once-smooth white surface, depressions that the wind seemed to begin to fill immediately with feathery white powder that scudded along the snow.

Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996