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Examples
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He was a stocky man, with a sharp, weather-roughened face.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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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
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Fanny, rubbing a forefinger (his) along her weather-roughened nose, would say, "At least you've seen me at my worst."
Fanny Herself 1917
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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