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He did not know the way of libraries, and he wandered through endless rows of fiction, till the delicate-featured French-looking girl who seemed in charge, told him that the reference department was upstairs.
Chapter 5 2010
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Reuters Cycling brothers Andy and Frank Schleck That's just some of the dreamy mythology associated with Frank and Andy Schleck, the slender, delicate-featured brothers from Luxembourg who rank among the world's best professional cyclists.
Schleck Brothers Serve Cold Revenge Jason Gay 2011
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I glanced at Jasmine in her white slinky dress, and Buddy said, "No, her," and nodded at a slim, delicate-featured woman, about sixty or so, moving toward a table, looking graceful and patient.
Beard 2010
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The kid, no longer Daniel but Dre, is played by Jaden Smith, the touchingly tender, delicate-featured son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
There's no stopping 2010
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I have nothing to add regarding Erbe's intelligent, tucked-in characterization, but I think an additional reason the Eames-Goren relationship plays so niftily is that she's so poised and delicate-featured, he so mallet-headed and gallumphing (swiveling his waist halfway around to make a rhetorical point).
Rodgers and Heart: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Howard, a burly man with a red beard, and one delicate-featured, short, dark man with a peculiarly long skull.
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One of the two girls - blonde like the body in the woods, and identically fair-skinned, delicate-featured, and small-boned - left them quickly and just as quickly returned.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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The delicate-featured human woman had proved quite adept at stealth tactics.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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The delicate-featured human woman had proved quite adept at stealth tactics.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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The delicate-featured human woman had proved quite adept at stealth tactics.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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