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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.

    errand running and herb growing 2007

  • 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.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • 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.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Hannah noticed that his fingers were long and sensitive-looking.

    Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997

  • Every now and then he rubbed his sensitive-looking hands together.

    Maigret Stonewalled Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • A small, sensitive-looking man came toward her and introduced himself.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Godliness: A Tale in Four Parts, I 1919

  • 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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