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Examples
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In general, I am forced to agree with your down-looking dog attitude.
13.2 Ways Not to Get Rich Online Harry 2008
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The officer whom I did not know was a down-looking man, and kept his eyes upon the ground while I was speaking.
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The officer whom I did not know was a down-looking man, and kept his eyes upon the ground while I was speaking.
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Much of the down-looking view was burned out by airglow around the torch.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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He was a humble down-looking man, whose physiognomy promised nothing, but who soon acquired the confidence of the King, and the esteem of the army.
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Whether this fell sheer or sloped steeply could not be seen, for the first thing which the down-looking eye encountered was a vast plain, rich, sun-bathed, rolling, three hundred feet below.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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She shewed it now, poor child; how could she help it? she shewed it by her unusually tinged cheeks and by her persistent down-looking eyes.
Melbourne House 1907
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I had a lamp, and at my forehead the lighted candle, and I went on quickly, seeing it useless now to choose my steps where there was no choice, through a passage incrusted, roof and sides, with a scabrous petrified lichen, the roof low for some ninety yards, covered with down-looking cones, like an inverted forest of children's toy-trees.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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But when he came splashing back and set it on the rock beside her, it suddenly lost its importance, and as suddenly she became a prey to low-voiced, down-looking discomfort.
The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900
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Not arm in arm, or hand in hand, or interchanging bright glances; but she in tears; he gloomy and down-looking.
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892
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