tired-faced

Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food at the big house on the hill; and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor.

Confession 2010

Many women, all tired-faced and dusty like my mother, emerged from the wagons.

Chapter 12 2010

She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life.

THE APOSTATE 2010

Also, to one side, limped a score or more of foot-sore, yoke-galled, skeleton oxen, that ever paused to nip at the occasional tufts of withered grass, and that ever were prodded on by the tired-faced youths who herded them.

Chapter 12 2010

She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

The tired-faced and silver-robed figure shifts his weight in the sculpted malachite and silver chair and turns his head toward the golden-eyed magus with the crossed cupridium lightning bolts on the breast of his tunic.

The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

The phone girl's face popped off the screen, and a tired-faced Sue Brown looked out at them.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

But Sarah Hunter kept the picture of Stephen O'Mara's mother separate from the rest; she took it upstairs with her when she went, white and tired-faced, to bed.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

The barkeep came scuttling out -- no robot in here, just a tired-faced old man -- and took their orders.

Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

The tired-faced woman cringed as though she had been slapped, and she meekly obeyed, taking the two babies with her.

The Red Trailer Mystery Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1950