The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of the accident. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The latter were big, hard-featured, sheepish-faced men, who stared at Saxon as if afraid of her. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence? ❋ Nancy Gideon (2010)
In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.” ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)
But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In a word, he has such an easy, yet manly politeness, as well in his dress, as in his address (no singu — larity appearing in either) that were he not a fine figure of a man, but were even plain and hard-featured, he would be thought (what is far more eligible in a man, than mere beauty) very agreeable. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The two new-comers were tall, stout, well-made young Men, hard-featured, and very much sun-burnt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Does he live there?” asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was a rough-headed, hard-featured personage, not old, but very weather-beaten; his attire was decent and clean, that of his children singularly neat; it was our old friend, Farren. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The common people here, as in all countries where they live poorly and dirtily, are hard-featured, and of very brown, or rather tawny complexions. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Catherine might rest; and then she sat upon a stone and looked about her at the hard-featured rocks and the glowing sky. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The individual referred to as Mr Baker, who sat at the table in the attitude of a student, was a robust, hard-featured, black-haired young man of two-or three-and-twenty; judging from his weather-beaten cheeks and huge hands, as well as from the garb he wore, one would have presumed that study was not his normal occupation. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With the exception of the first-named, a hard-featured man at least forty years old, the brothers were good-looking youths, with clear brown skins, regular features, and graceful figures. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He felt that they were hard-featured realists and that they resented an exactitude which was the produce of a leisure not within their reach. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Today he was in Pat's Gym in East London and was sweating profusely, his hard-featured face red from exertion. ❋ Cole, Martina (2002)
Draw down the wind from the heavens and blow these hard-featured horrors away! ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1999)
