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  • Sold into slavery by her parents as a child of three or four years old, too young for her mother even to have begun binding her feet, Olan had grown up as a kitchen drudge, mute, coarse-featured, big-footed, beaten daily with a leather strap, bullied by the women and ignored by the men of the household as too plain to be worth raping.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Sold into slavery by her parents as a child of three or four years old, too young for her mother even to have begun binding her feet, Olan had grown up as a kitchen drudge, mute, coarse-featured, big-footed, beaten daily with a leather strap, bullied by the women and ignored by the men of the household as too plain to be worth raping.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • “A robust, jovial, coarse-featured, self-confident man of convivial habits and flamboyant tastes, Curtis was a constant target of whig and radical cartoonists” (Oxford DNB).

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • It was the body of a large and coarse-featured man, but wasted and shrunk as if by famine to a very skeleton.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • He had curly black hair that made Tess think of the darkest Concord grapes and a heavy coarse-featured face that was too florid for him ever to progress to the more mainstream news shows.

    In a Strange City Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2001

  • CordweU, a thickset, coarse-featured man in his early fifties, was at an antique mahogany desk, its green leather top scarred with cigarette burns.

    Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995

  • I did not know, of course, but I suspected she might have been coarse-featured, or homely.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • Her coarse-featured, heavy fare, surrounded by a broad, muslin cap frill, that nearly covered her harsh yellow hair, was lighted up by a pair of small gray eyes, expressing a mixture of cunning and curiosity.

    Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

  • She is now about fifty years of age (it is no crime to speak of the age of a woman of her genius), a large, masculine, coarse-featured woman, but with fine eyes, and open, easy, frank, and hearty in her manner to friends.

    The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

  • He is a tall, large, coarse-featured, but well-proportioned man, with black hair, inclining to curl, dark complexion, and very black eyes.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

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