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  • Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food at the big house on the hill; and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor.

    Confession 2010

  • Many women, all tired-faced and dusty like my mother, emerged from the wagons.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life.

    THE APOSTATE 2010

  • Also, to one side, limped a score or more of foot-sore, yoke-galled, skeleton oxen, that ever paused to nip at the occasional tufts of withered grass, and that ever were prodded on by the tired-faced youths who herded them.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life.

    THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

  • The tired-faced and silver-robed figure shifts his weight in the sculpted malachite and silver chair and turns his head toward the golden-eyed magus with the crossed cupridium lightning bolts on the breast of his tunic.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The phone girl's face popped off the screen, and a tired-faced Sue Brown looked out at them.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • But Sarah Hunter kept the picture of Stephen O'Mara's mother separate from the rest; she took it upstairs with her when she went, white and tired-faced, to bed.

    Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

  • The barkeep came scuttling out -- no robot in here, just a tired-faced old man -- and took their orders.

    Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

  • The tired-faced woman cringed as though she had been slapped, and she meekly obeyed, taking the two babies with her.

    The Red Trailer Mystery Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1950

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