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  • The rich man has land and fine china but he's stiff-looking and his speech is clipped and you can tell he would be a lousy lay, concerned with bodily fluids and such, while the poor man is square-chinned and passionate, but, of course, poor.

    Not All Who Wander Are Lost 2009

  •   The rich man has land and fine china but he's stiff-looking and his speech is clipped and you can tell he would be a lousy lay, concerned with bodily fluids and such, while the poor man is square-chinned and passionate, but, of course, poor.

    Not All Who Wander Are Lost 2009

  • Atticus's square-chinned nobility would define Peck's career, on screen and off.

    Final Bows 2007

  • Over her square-chinned, aquiline old face a trembling passed; the spidery fingers of her hands pressed against each other and interlaced, as though she were subtly recharging her will.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • He stood suddenly erect as we drew near, and a very ill-looking person he was, low-browed, square-chinned, and with a broad, broken nose.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Close beside her sat a narrow-faced and square-chinned woman in dark brown.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Croi Makin, a yellow-haired young splinter of stone from Andor with a fine profile, and Avar Hachami, hawk-nosed and square-chinned with a thick gray-streaked mustache like down-curved horns.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • He was as tall as I was, brown-faced and square-chinned, with a keen look about him, as though he couldn't wait to have a cold tub and a ten-mile walk.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • The woman is not at all pretty: she wears thick, common shoes, a plain dress, with a little shawl, and a sun-bonnet; she is stout and short, and her face is a square-chinned Irish face; but her eyes look at you like your mother's.

    Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant

  • Husky young Westerners, slim young Southerners, square-chinned young Northerners -- a great brotherhood, their faces set one way -- and he was to share their hardships, to be cold and hungry with the best of them, wet and dirty with the worst.

    The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

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