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  • Especially a jungle where pubey-bearded manchild Spencer Pratt spends 19 hours out of every day arguing with mahogany-faced leatherwoman Janice Dickinson.

    Dumb Celebrity T-Shirt Of The Week – Naomi Campbell 2009

  • Another man, that mahogany-faced fellow with the colonial accent, would have refused to draw, and would have knocked Lord Newhaven down and half killed him, or would have been knocked down and half killed by him.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • He drinks glasses, five for the quarter, and twelve for the hour; he is a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns: he ought to have been kicked for having spoken to him.

    Selected English Letters Various 1913

  • Tall and imposing, with his head high and his forked beard thrusting forward, he stalked with great dignity to the foot of the divan followed by Ali and a mahogany-faced fellow, turbaned and red-bearded, in whom it needed more than a glance to recognize the rascally Jasper Leigh, now in all the panoply of your complete renegado.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Now and again, betwixt the shouting and the singing, a young girl, whose presence in such a company turned my heart sick, played upon a harp, while to serve the crew with liquor there was a mahogany-faced hag whom the men addressed as "Mother Catch."

    The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

  • Another man, that mahogany-faced fellow with the colonial accent, would have refused to draw, and would have knocked Lord Newhaven down and half killed him, or would have been knocked down and half killed by him.

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • The man whom he called Morgan -- an old, grey-haired, mahogany-faced sailor -- came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.

    Treasure Island 1883

  • "I'll put one to that," cried the old mahogany-faced seaman -- Morgan by name -- whom I had seen in Long John's public - house upon the quays of Bristol.

    Treasure Island 1883

  • Paul looked around, and saw no one but a white-haired, mahogany-faced old man who sat writing at a table.

    The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Paul Boyton 1881

  • The man whom he called Morgan -- an old, gray-haired, mahogany-faced sailor -- came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.

    Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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