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  • Glancing back one last time at my trunks, I followed Mrs. Girard up the stairs on my left and down a long hall lined with portraits of stern-looking old men in suits.

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • Wander too far one way or the other around the fields, and one immediately will be accosted by security officials — mostly stern-looking college kids.

    Rebuilding Raiders out to put the mean back in Silver & Black 2009

  • Next morning, Logan, Rytlock, and Caithe walked among stern-looking warriors who led them from the jail to the arena.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Glancing back one last time at my trunks, I followed Mrs. Girard up the stairs on my left and down a long hall lined with portraits of stern-looking old men in suits.

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • Next morning, Logan, Rytlock, and Caithe walked among stern-looking warriors who led them from the jail to the arena.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • The magazine's current cover story -- with a black and white profile of an unshaven, stern-looking and tie-less DSK, facing a profile of Diallo in soft color -- reads largely like a puff piece by the magazine's fashion editors.

    Bob Barr: Strauss-Kahn Case Becomes a Circus Bob Barr 2011

  • The magazine's current cover story -- with a black and white profile of an unshaven, stern-looking and tie-less DSK, facing a profile of Diallo in soft color -- reads largely like a puff piece by the magazine's fashion editors.

    Bob Barr: Strauss-Kahn Case Becomes a Circus Bob Barr 2011

  • The magazine's current cover story -- with a black and white profile of an unshaven, stern-looking and tie-less DSK, facing a profile of Diallo in soft color -- reads largely like a puff piece by the magazine's fashion editors.

    Bob Barr: Strauss-Kahn Case Becomes a Circus Bob Barr 2011

  • The magazine's current cover story -- with a black and white profile of an unshaven, stern-looking and tie-less DSK, facing a profile of Diallo in soft color -- reads largely like a puff piece by the magazine's fashion editors.

    Bob Barr: Strauss-Kahn Case Becomes a Circus Bob Barr 2011

  • It was my dissertation supervisor who identified him: a tall, stern-looking man with cropped black hair, standing in the middle of the crowd at the Leicester College of Technology on Friday 10 February 1967, gazing intently at the figure of Syd Barrett, playing guitar a few feet in front of him.

    Psychedelic footballer – the secret life of Derek Dougan 2011

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