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However, it recently began doing bad, angry things with its ink nozzle, which was possibly damaged when a certain fat-ass feline fell off the windowsill and caught herself on the printer head, ripping off a couple of sensitive-looking parts -- which subsequently became cat toys, despite my attempts to retrieve and reattach them.
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The former, a big, dark, good-humoured man with a strip of black moustache, was a professional police detective; the latter, a sharp-faced, sensitive-looking gentleman with light hair, was an amateur interested in detection.
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The former, a big, dark, good-humoured man with a strip of black moustache, was a professional police detective; the latter, a sharp-faced, sensitive-looking gentleman with light hair, was an amateur interested in detection.
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Hannah noticed that his fingers were long and sensitive-looking.
Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997
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Every now and then he rubbed his sensitive-looking hands together.
Maigret Stonewalled Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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A small, sensitive-looking man came toward her and introduced himself.
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When she turned her eyes toward him he appeared to be listening almost drowsily to something that she could not hear, or else, since his sensitive-looking nostrils were dilated, to be relishing some sweet odor -- perhaps the smell of the roses.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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She liked, too, the shape of the hand that held the fountain-pen; it was a slender, sensitive-looking member with well-kept nails, and Diana always appreciated nice hands.
The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler
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When Jesse Bentley came home to the farm and began to take charge of things he was a slight, sensitive-looking man of twenty-two.
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When Jesse Bentley came home to the farm and began to take charge of things he was a slight, sensitive-looking man of twenty-two.
Winesburg, Ohio: a Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life 1919
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