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weather-roughened

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  • He was a stocky man, with a sharp, weather-roughened face.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Fanny, rubbing a forefinger (his) along her weather-roughened nose, would say, "At least you've seen me at my worst."

    Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

  • Fanny, rubbing a forefinger (his) along her weather-roughened nose, would say, "At least you've seen me at my worst."

    Fanny Herself 1917

  • Not for his sake, you understand -- he, I fear, deserves what he has suffered, what he is perhaps still suffering, "-- a look of horror stole over his old, weather-roughened face --" but for the sake of the foolish girl and for the sake of her family.

    Studies in love and in terror Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Her hands and arms are no longer flesh colour, but resemble weather-roughened hide, ingrained with dirt.

    The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900

  • The kitchen door opened at the same moment, and a woman's figure appeared in the lamplight -- a young girl, slender, bare armed, drying her fingers as she came down the steps to offer a small, weather-roughened hand to

    Blue-Bird Weather Charles Dana Gibson 1899

  • Then, hunched on his horse, rode old John Butler -- squat, swarthy, weather-roughened, balancing on his saddle with the grace of a chopping block; and after him more Rangers crowding close behind.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • In 'Frozen River,' the veteran actress Melissa Leo has one of those faces that's all creases and hollows and weather-roughened valleys

    RNews - TOP STORIES 2009

  • In 'Frozen River,' the veteran actress Melissa Leo has one of those faces that's all creases and hollows and weather-roughened valleys

    RNews - TOP STORIES 2009

  • In 'Frozen River,' the veteran actress Melissa Leo has one of those faces that's all creases and hollows and weather-roughened valleys

    RNews - TOP STORIES 2009

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