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  • adjective closely shaved recently

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Examples

  • She was feeling more nervous than she had expected and kept her eyes fixed upon the well-shaven face above the black robe, avoiding the rows of spectators below.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • Worse, the same director sat behind his gigantic desk with the same pitying, condescending smile on his well-shaven face.

    Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

  • He shed no tears, simply stood there, erect and well-shaven — sixty-two years old.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • He'd apparently been home between his early morning visit to the hospital and coming to the Yard, because he looked as he always looked: perfectly groomed, well-shaven, and suitably dressed.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • The white-coats were all in their fifties and had the well-fed, well-shaven look of senior attending physicians with established practices.

    Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

  • To look at he was unremarkable, a smooth well-shaven face, heavy thick-lensed glasses, decent enough suit, a lawyer, to look at, or a scientist, one of the brilliant younger men searching cleverly through the subatomic particles for the Nobel Prize.

    Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

  • Jevan stroked his long, well-shaven jaw and considered, with a speculative eye upon Hugh's face.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • Jevan stroked his long, well-shaven jaw and considered, with a speculative eye upon Hugh's face.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • He had a long, patrician countenance, olive-skinned and with no warmer flush of red in his well-shaven cheeks.

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • He gazed benignly upon the activity around him from a plump, shrewd, well-shaven face, favouring the whole creation with a broad, contented smile.

    The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

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