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  • But more than that, their faces were layered with bone and skin, their features resembling not so much those of a goatwho can be a noble-looking animal, even when he isn2t all that prettyas they resembled the features of giants or hideously deformed men.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • A tall, noble-looking man reaches out and grabs her wrist.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • A tall, noble-looking man reaches out and grabs her wrist.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • For the popularized 1880 version, notes Salter, “Alcott agreed not only to revisions of grammar and punctuation but also to rewordings that cleaned up slang, simplified cultural references, remade ‘motherly’ Marmee as ‘noble-looking,’ and in dozens of ways conventionalized sentiment, gender roles and character.”

    Today’s Reads | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • The movie opened with images of a vast Nashi meeting of youths in identical white T shirts, red stars on their chests, and continued with shots of Putin juxtaposed against photos of a noble-looking wolf, followed by images of rats symbolizing corrupt government bureaucrats.

    Young Russia Rises 2007

  • For the popularized 1880 version, notes Salter, “Alcott agreed not only to revisions of grammar and punctuation but also to rewordings that cleaned up slang, simplified cultural references, remade ‘motherly’ Marmee as ‘noble-looking,’ and in dozens of ways conventionalized sentiment, gender roles and character.”

    Print - Today’s Reads | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • I know that you are free, a poet, and noble-looking.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • The movie opened with images of a vast Nashi meeting of youths in identical white T shirts, red stars on their chests, and continued with shots of Putin juxtaposed against photos of a noble-looking wolf, followed by images of rats symbolizing corrupt government bureaucrats.

    Russia accused of launching first massive cyberstrike against Estonia Abhay N 2007

  • For the popularized 1880 version, notes Salter, “Alcott agreed not only to revisions of grammar and punctuation but also to rewordings that cleaned up slang, simplified cultural references, remade ‘motherly’ Marmee as ‘noble-looking,’ and in dozens of ways conventionalized sentiment, gender roles and character.”

    Today’s Reads | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • They are noble-looking beings, fantastically and sometimes quite beautifully adorned, with a proud carriage, and, save for their mouths, almost microscopic heads.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

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