They have not very vigorous limbs, their nose is short and not very broad, their mouth of medium size, their lips and cheekbones but little prominent; their face is oval or round, and their countenances mild and rather merry.
Their cheekbones are but little prominent; their lower lip protrudes beyond the upper, thus imparting to their grave and impressive countenances an expression of scornful pride, well in keeping with the character of this unsubdued race.
Their cheekbones are high set and very prominent, and form almost an equilateral triangle with their sharp-pointed chin.
His cheekbones were almost 'bopsies' now, and his cheeks very thin and dark, and his jaw looked too set and bony below the almost black moustache.
That long, loping, wolfish fiddling fellow with the broad cheekbones and little side-whiskers (Good God!
General Hayes strode into the room with the same expression of confident, aggressive attention that he always wore, perhaps pulled a bit tighter about the cheekbones by tension and desire.
He had a lean, hard face with prominent cheekbones and brow.
Mrs. Clirehugh came in; she was in black, her cheekbones higher, her hair looser, her eyes bigger.
In his crisp black hair and slightly protuberant cheekbones I traced again the hint of Jewish ancestry I had remarked before.
The crispness of his hair and the high cheekbones gave a suggestion of Jewish blood.
Bas roared out his rejection of that alternative with his swarthy cheekbones flaming redly, and into his rapidly and shiftily working mind came the comfort of a realization which in that first surprise and terror had escaped him.
His swarthy face with its high cheekbones bequeathed from the shameful mixing of his blood in Indian veins wore a challenging smile of daredeviltry, and the buxom young woman stood regarding him out of her provocative eyes.
Hewlett took the paper and corrugated his brows over its vindictive message; then his high cheekbones flushed and from his unshaven lips gushed a cascade of oath-embroidered denunciation.
Rowlett wheeled, his swarthy face burning to its high cheekbones with a flush that spread and dyed his bull-like neck.
His head drooped forward on his palm, his shoulders took on a tired stoop, his cheekbones showed painfully.
She had the high cheekbones of her race, but she had also their exquisite fairess of color.
It was the old imperious smile, but the face over which it spread was thinner and gaunter and between the hollowed cheekbones the smile lost something of its wonted illumination--failed somewhat of its old convincing force.
The lad flushed to his cheekbones and for a moment he made no move to obey.
The eyes between high cheekbones glistened in dark slits and in his throat, too low to be heard, a little grunt voiced Yamuro's fanatical admiration.
Hamilton Burton showed just a glow of brick red on his cheekbones that argued an early break in his over-strained temper.
With joyful cruelty Victoria noted here and there faint wrinkles near their eyes, relaxed mouths, cheekbones on which rosacia had already set its mark.
She stopped, for a flush was rising in Victoria's face, the cheekbones showing two little red patches.
Her face was broad and her cheekbones rather high.
His cheekboneswere high, and his eyes oblique like those of a Mongolian.
The glow which spotted his pallid face at the cheekbones told of a temperature.
The yellow flare from a shaded lantern fell in sharp high lights on his lean cheekbonesand on the cramped hand, laboriously pushing its pencil.
The entire face was black and rigid, from its unkempt locks of jet to its high outstanding cheekbones and clamped under jaw.
I looked at this last one curiously; a massive figure with traces of great muscularity, a broad, Mongoloid head with large cheekbones and square eye-sockets.
She was struggling furiously with a crewman I'd talked to a few times and neither liked nor disliked--a heavyset man with high cheekbones and pale blue eyes.
Her hair was done up in a different way, and her lips were a little fuller than Joan's and her cheekbones not quite so prominent.
Cheekbones have a strange, unnatural effect when they appear in childish faces.
And so you went on like your neighbours, playing the game, while your eyes grew larger and your girth less, and your cheekbones more in evidence with every day that dawned.
Obstinacy and stony hardness were expressed in his prominent cheekbones and the heavy brow that overshadowed his eyes.
She was a large woman of a fine presence, red cheekbones with high lights, and smooth black hair brushed glossy and carefully coiled.
The high cheekbones gave him an odd look as if she saw him in bronze.
Grave, Irish maybe, handsome in spite of a signature of smallpox from jutting cheekbones to the edge of an angular jaw.
He knew that if he did, the man would merely lift him with gouging fingers under the cheekbones and toss him aside, because it was not for Reuben, or rather not only for Reuben, that he was gliding up the stairway.
Then, as the body itself will usually shatter such a refuge with its own cantankerous insistence, Reuben's nose itched, his hands upholding his cheekbones grew sweaty and cramped.
Kanaday's nose had been broken long before in some barroom brawl; his cheekbones bulged; his face was strong and hard.
She was tall and powerful-looking, with straight black hair and the strong cheekbones that characterized the Spacers.
Prominence of cheekbones is another special feature, but it is much commoner in the lower than in the upper classes, where elongated faces may almost be said to be the rule.
The cheekbones are often prominent and the slope of the eye is not very marked[410].
The cheekbones are broad and the jaws often protrude slightly; the lips are as a rule thick.
Edith had never discovered much resemblance between Victoria and her daughter, except for prominent cheekbones and uncommonly white skin.
His cheekbones jutted out and his mouth was wide, curving down at the corners where it met deep furrows that ran from nose to chin.
Black rings painted around his eyes and yellow slashes on his cheekbonesgave him a terrifying look.
The eyebrows too level, the rosebud mouth too small and the cheekbonesunmistakably present, even if barely breaking the curve.
The rusticity was rubbing on again in her manner, and to Saul Aronson it actually seemed that her cheekbones were becoming prominent, like those of her horrid aunt whom he had met on that fateful evening.
But there was always something a bit eerie and fantastic about her, something not exactly of the everyday world--her high cheekbones and thin, emotional face with its scarlet lips and intense expression faintly foreshadowing an unusual future.
Yet she was always too thin, her chin too pointed and her cheekbones too high to touch any of his ideals of beauty.
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