firmly-closed

Her face was of a whitish tint, more like marble than flesh, and appeared as if modelled from the antique — with the straight Greek nose, high and smooth forehead, and full red mouth, with firmly-closed lips.

Madame Midas 2003

Twenty years of India, of hot weathers resolutely endured, of stretching small means to the utmost limit and beyond it, had left their mark, in sallowness of skin, in broken lines of thought between her brows, and of restrained endurance about her firmly-closed lips.

Captain Desmond, V.C. Maud Diver 1906

Her face was of a whitish tint, more like marble than flesh, and appeared as if modelled from the antique -- with the straight Greek nose, high and smooth forehead, and full red mouth, with firmly-closed lips.

Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

From where she sat Margot could see the dark profile beneath the deerstalker cap, the long straight nose, the firmly-closed lips, the steady eyes.

Big Game A Story for Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887

But that this fragile - looking man, in whose benevolent countenance grief and infirmities had graven many a furrow, could not only command but compel submission was legible alike in his thin, firmly-closed lips and in the zeal with which his following of truculent and bearded fighting men, armed to the teeth, obeyed his slightest sign.

The Bride of the Nile — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of

The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts.

The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

But that this fragile-looking man, in whose benevolent countenance grief and infirmities had graven many a furrow, could not only command but compel submission was legible alike in his thin, firmly-closed lips and in the zeal with which his following of truculent and bearded fighting men, armed to the teeth, obeyed his slightest sign.

The Bride of the Nile — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

But that this fragile - looking man, in whose benevolent countenance grief and infirmities had graven many a furrow, could not only command but compel submission was legible alike in his thin, firmly-closed lips and in the zeal with which his following of truculent and bearded fighting men, armed to the teeth, obeyed his slightest sign.

The Bride of the Nile — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

But that this fragile - looking man, in whose benevolent countenance grief and infirmities had graven many a furrow, could not only command but compel submission was legible alike in his thin, firmly-closed lips and in the zeal with which his following of truculent and bearded fighting men, armed to the teeth, obeyed his slightest sign.

The Bride of the Nile — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867