hollow-cheeked love

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  • But the long journey and hardship had told on her, so that she was hollow-cheeked and gaunt, and like all the women in the company she wore an expression of brooding, never - ceasing anxiety.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • The two of them, carrying battered suitcases which they wouldn't need, his father weak and hollow-cheeked from hunger, his mother a slim, defiant wraith.

    The Replica City Al Bray 2011

  • The Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho, huge-eyed, hollow-cheeked and fragile, could hardly look more the part.

    Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review 2012

  • His shoulders are very broad, and his muscles bulge under his shirt; and yet he is slender-waisted, lean-limbed, and hollow-cheeked.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • A police photo of Mladic showed him looking hollow-cheeked and shrunken after a decade and a half on the run, a far cry from the beefy commander he once was.

    War-crimes suspect could be extradited as early as Monday 2011

  • The last miles into Selkirk, Daylight drove the Indian before him, a hollow-cheeked, gaunt-eyed wraith of a man who else would have lain down and slept or abandoned his burden of mail.

    Chapter V 2010

  • When she looks in the mirror and sees herself lined and hollow-cheeked, she thinks, Tomorrow is here.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • Do it for the camaraderie, for the expo the day before, for all the postrace goodies the big races offer, or for no other reason than to see so many other skinny, hollow-cheeked people who share your love of and passion for the sport.

    Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

  • Nevertheless, much of the appeal of competing in a marathon derives from the image of a lean, hollow-cheeked, blistered messenger suffering for hours in the broiling sun for the glory of his country.

    Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

  • When she looks in the mirror and sees herself lined and hollow-cheeked, she thinks, Tomorrow is here.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

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