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Sweat, grime, unshavenness, the manifold marks of exhaustion were upon him, but - For that matter, she was scarcely an image of glamour herself.
The Clique 2010
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He was the frowsiest bookseller I ever saw, and he was in the third day of his unshavenness with a shirt-front and coat-collar plentifully bedandruffed from his shaggy hair; but he entered into the spirit of my affair and said if that Spanish play had succeeded so wonderfully, then I ought to pay fifty per cent, more than the current price for the other Spanish plays which I wanted him to get me.
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He was no Greek god, and sweat, grime, unshavenness, the manifold marks of exhaustion were upon him, but-For that matter, she was scarcely an image of glamour herself.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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He was the frowsiest bookseller I ever saw, and he was in the third day of his unshavenness with a shirt-front and coat-collar plentifully bedandruffed from his shaggy hair; but he entered into the spirit of my affair and said if that Spanish play had succeeded so wonderfully, then I ought to pay fifty per cent, more than the current price for the other Spanish plays which I wanted him to get me.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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It was not the short stubble of grey beard, so short that it seemed to hesitate between beard and unshavenness; it was not the figure nor carriage -- clothes alter that, and the clothes of the man who was advancing to meet Romarin were, to put it bluntly, shabby; nor was it ... but Romarin did not know what it was in the advancing figure that for the moment found no response in his memory.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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