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Examples
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The face gazing down at hers was narrow, sharp-boned, leached of all color, his eyes black and his hair so white he looked like a photograph in negative.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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The face gazing down at hers was narrow, sharp-boned, leached of all color, his eyes black and his hair so white he looked like a photograph in negative.
City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008
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At that moment, she wanted nothing more in the world than to slap him right across that sharp-boned face of his.
Personal Demons Stacia Kane 2008
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He was a tall boy with a skinny build, a mass of bark brown hair worn in a waving tangle around a sharp-boned face.
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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His cheeks were sharp-boned and sunken; his hair, which had always been white, had thinned to a few feathery wisps.
Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005
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And now, this worn and sharp-boned middle-aged woman with breast implants and a whiskey-cigarette voice.
A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002
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Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.
Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001
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Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.
Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001
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Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.
Never Change Elizabeth Berg 2001
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A sharp-boned young woman arrived with disciE, lined hair and a power-dressing grey suit with a bright 'Juliard' rosette pinned to one shoulder.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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