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  • Under the forehead, the cheeks showed high-boned, with underneath the slight hollows that necessarily accompany such formation.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.

    THE GREAT INTERROGATION 2010

  • Benson had a happy, rosy nose and high-boned smile hills.

    Evidence Meg Pokrass 2011

  • I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • I gazed at his face, the proud, high-boned features.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He opened his eyes upon a lean, dark figure looming beside him, and a shadowed oval face, high-boned and aquiline, looking down at him impersonally, with a grave and slightly unnerving intelligence.

    A River So Long 2010

  • A black veil covered her hair, accentuating her high-boned pallor; she looked more like a mourner than the mother of a bride.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • A black veil covered her hair, accentuating her high-boned pallor; she looked more like a mourner than the mother of a bride.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • Some were light in colour, and some were black as coal; some had squat negro features, and some thin, high-boned Arab faces.

    Prester John 2005

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