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  • I glimpsed the sliver of white teeth between his well-arched lips.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I glimpsed the sliver of white teeth between his well-arched lips.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I glimpsed the sliver of white teeth between his well-arched lips.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Finally, the nose exhibits a wide range of variation from the small delicate feature of the Chinaman to the large, well-arched nose of the Indian.

    The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

  • Some of the women I shall remember -- Mr.. Sloane Schuyler, leader of the smallest and most exclusive of Society's many sets -- a handsome woman with well-arched eyebrows; and Mr.. Fredericks, of the same group; sallow, with great black eyes, talking with tremendous animation; and Mr.. Terry -- of the newly rich; Mr. Bellmer's aunt; dumpy, diamonded and disagreeable - looking.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • Her complexion, of dazzling but uniform whiteness, contrasted with her jet-black hair; her well-arched eye-brows, slightly joining, gave a proud expression to her physiognomy, without diminishing its graceful beauty.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • The clearstorey displays three well-arched windows of three lights (the innermost window a little smaller than the others) with tracery not unlike that in the south aisle of the nave.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

  • Now, Emma McChesney Buck had a weakness for smart shoes which her slim, well-arched foot excused.

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • A blue frontal vein, in the form of a Y, when in an open, smooth, well-arched forehead, I have only found in men of extraordinary talents and of ardent and generous character.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • Under a broad, low forehead, under black well-arched brows, beamed eyes dark-blue and large, and softened to exceeding tenderness by lashes of the great length sometimes seen on children, but seldom, if ever, on men.

    Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

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