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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
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Many women, all tired-faced and dusty like my mother, emerged from the wagons.
Chapter 12 2010
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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
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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
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She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life.
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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
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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
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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
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The barkeep came scuttling out -- no robot in here, just a tired-faced old man -- and took their orders.
Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg
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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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