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  • He looked at the boy out of his sunken haggard eyes.†   (source)
  • Behind him, a group of haggard-looking Ministry wizards rushed past, pointing at the distant evidence of some sort of a magical fire that was sending violet sparks twenty feet into the air.†   (source)
  • Then he recognized Garvey, leaning over him, his face haggard with worry.†   (source)
  • They are bent over, haggard, three with just a horseshoe of hair left.†   (source)
  • It was haggard: her cheekbones were sharp, her jaw pronounced, and her eyes slightly, but ever so disturbingly, sunken in.†   (source)
  • The boy sounded haggard, yet strangely determined; he had a fevered shine to his eyes.†   (source)
  • He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.†   (source)
  • Mercy stirred and asked, in a quite natural voice, for a sip of water, and Rachel's haggard face lighted with a smile.†   (source)
  • Her face was terribly haggard.†   (source)
  • He was six foot four or six five, at least: haggard, noble-jawed, heavy, something about him suggesting the antique photos of Irish poets and pugilists that hung in the midtown pub where my father liked to drink.†   (source)
  • There is a haggard look in his eyes that tells me he still hasn't slept.†   (source)
  • A PATH REVEALED Fatigued and haggard, but with triumphant smiles, they sat around the fire, congratulating each other.†   (source)
  • His face was still haggard and his eyes wary and haunted and the bright enthusiastic voice was a sharp contrast.†   (source)
  • His face was even more haggard than usual as he opened the casket and held it out to the Magpie, his head bowed humbly.†   (source)
  • He looked haggard and weary —looked as though it had been too long since he'd slept last, looked as though it would be even longer before he was able to sleep again.†   (source)
  • When he finally reached out his hand for the money, his haggard expression was the same one I was used to seeing on pawnbroker's faces.†   (source)
  • Sixty-six ....sixty-seven ....sixty-eight ....The boy in the bed next to mine has an old man's face, haggard, sunken, carved.†   (source)
  • Didn't Dante (or Chaucer, or Merle Haggard) say that?†   (source)
  • She look a little haggard with all Sofia and Harpo children sprung on her at once, but she carry on.†   (source)
  • Everyone looked slightly haggard, looked as though they'd be easily startled.†   (source)
  • His face was white and haggard and his mouth kept trying to grin.†   (source)
  • As I stood there looking at the small crowd of haggard men, this seemed like an incredibly stupid oversight.†   (source)
  • His face was haggard and pale, like he'd seen a specter.†   (source)
  • He was much younger than I'd thought, his haggard appearance stemming from emotion.†   (source)
  • His voice turned flat, and his face, already drawn, looked downright haggard as his eyes closed again — not in exhaustion this time, but in denial.†   (source)
  • On her way out, she passes by a young woman with a shaved head, dressed in the dirty and haggard remains of a Chanel knockoff.†   (source)
  • He had lost weight and looked haggard.†   (source)
  • She was young, but haggard and old before her time, like a fully dressed penitent surrounded by glorious nakedness.†   (source)
  • He looked haggard, thinner than she remembered.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it w as the sight of the haggard workers hunched over their irons, girls who looked entirely too young, who would probably look entirely too old after just a year or two on the job.†   (source)
  • She looks haggard and stricken.†   (source)
  • Duke Madison especially, who had dropped out of school to marry his girlfriend the year before, who hardly played the piano anymore and had a haggard glancing-at-the-clock kind of look when he did.†   (source)
  • His eyes darted over me, from my haggard face down my forest green uniform to my mud-stained shoes.†   (source)
  • His frame, always slender, had become alarmingly thin and somewhat misshapen, his hair prematurely white, his face strained and haggard.†   (source)
  • He had grown haggard during the past month, but he kept his bearing.†   (source)
  • Somewhere behind David's exhausted, haggard expression is something harder, stronger.†   (source)
  • He looked haggard and tired.†   (source)
  • When Sothea stepped away for a few minutes, Neth turned toward us, looking haggard.†   (source)
  • My brother, whom I had not seen for seven years, looked haggard, not at all like the picture in the Times.†   (source)
  • Cedric slips into a back row, unnoticed, looking haggard.†   (source)
  • Luke smiled haggardly.†   (source)
  • Johnnie was used to hardship and early rising, but in an intermittent fashion; for the Passmores and Consadines were a haggard lot that came to no lure but their own pleasure.†   (source)
  • His face has commenced to take on that same haggard, puzzled look of pressure that the face on the floor has.†   (source)
  • They thought he might have been having a heart attack, and Billy seemed to confirm this by going to a chair and sitting down haggardly.†   (source)
  • In the morning he stepped from his tent looking haggard, fearful and guilt-ridden, an eaten shell of a human building rocking perilously on the brink of collapse.†   (source)
  • When the door opened, his friend stood in his bedclothes looking pale and haggard.†   (source)
  • The figure was indeed the strange man from the train and the museum, although he looked younger and less haggard in the photograph.†   (source)
  • He'd looked at all the haggard faces, all of them willing him to say yes.†   (source)
  • Warmed by the heater and soothed by Merle Haggard on the radio, Calvin gazed through the windshield, ignored the boy, tapped his fingers along with the wipers, and realized he was crying.†   (source)
  • There are deep grooves under his greenish-gray eyes, giving him a haggard look instead of the vibrant, youthful countenance the nation is used to seeing.†   (source)
  • In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel.†   (source)
  • She looked more haggard than before, if that was even possible: the ponytail was gone, her hair now hanging limp in her face.†   (source)
  • His eyes are the same, but hisface has altered so, drawn and haggard, each line etched deep.†   (source)
  • The face reflected in the mirror was haggard and sleep deprived, barely recognizable.†   (source)
  • Jacques de Raison looked up from his desk, haggard and distracted.†   (source)
  • Though beneath his brown woolen cap, his scruffily bearded, haggardly handsome face more closely resembled Bob Marley.†   (source)
  • He looked more haggard than she'd ever seen him, worse even than when his wife was dying.†   (source)
  • Likewise the boy who was dressed to the nines in a muddy but finely tailored suit and stove-in top hat, his face drawn and haggard from lack of sleep, for he hadn't allowed himself any in days, so afraid was he of his dreams.†   (source)
  • Jason was not sure why, but the haggard face of Andre Villiers came to his mind's eye.†   (source)
  • Her face appeared haggard.†   (source)
  • Baltazar grounded out to Byron Haggard at second base, and Pepe followed with a similar consequence for the next out.†   (source)
  • It was early, just eight o'clock on the morning after Roarke left for FreeStar One, but Feeney already looked haggard.†   (source)
  • The men were haggard, unshaven, and hungry.†   (source)
  • She didn't look good; she was pale and haggard; she was rail-thin.†   (source)
  • Her shoulders were sagging and her face looked suddenly worn, an odd, aged look that seemed haggard and lost.†   (source)
  • When Lieutenant Redler came to the field kitchen late on Tuesday afternoon, he looked haggard and his uniform was mud-spattered.†   (source)
  • Guenhwyvar looked even more haggard.†   (source)
  • I never knew what time he went to bed, though his tired, stooped body and his haggard face made it clear that he was sleeping very little.†   (source)
  • Rogak had Melody Byrd read a passage: Circe trying to bewitch Odysseus: "Wow you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always brooding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy— you've suffered far too much.†   (source)
  • He hadn't shaved in days and looked tired and haggard.†   (source)
  • He looked haggard.†   (source)
  • Jimmy mumbled weakly, a pained wince on his haggard face.†   (source)
  • He had been warm, humble, maybe a bit haggard.†   (source)
  • I glanced at him, sitting there in our but with his long, haggard face and eyes like a kingfisher's wing, living among us who were not his people, in a country not his own, and of a sudden I was moved to ask him if he was indeed alone.†   (source)
  • Mother looked at him, her face haggard with worry and grief.†   (source)
  • And at last, haggard with a hangover and his pockets almost empty, Red said, "Let's go home.†   (source)
  • Kate was haggard and her slender body had shrunk to bones.†   (source)
  • a little slurred, the freckled indoor face sad and haggard in the waning light.†   (source)
  • In the garden house the lights commence to come up; ANNIE, haggard at the table, is writing a letter, her face again almost in contact with the stationery; HELEN, apart on the stool, and for the first time as clean and neat as a button, is quietly crocheting an endless chain of wool, which snakes all around the room.†   (source)
  • She was haggard; once beautiful.†   (source)
  • Her face had become haggard since morning.†   (source)
  • There was a smile on Rhoop's haggard face.†   (source)
  • Weary, haggard and unshaven Senators, slumped despondently in their chairs after the rigors of an all-night session, muttered "Vote, Vote" in the hopes of discouraging any further oratory on a bill already certain of passage.†   (source)
  • She stopped, and he stopped with her, and she stared into his haggard, burning face.†   (source)
  • The prefect appeared, his lean face haggard, his dark eyes heavily shadowed.†   (source)
  • [JACQUES and ROBERTA stop their purring, and, as if waking ,from a deep sleep, look at JACQUELINE with surprise, having difficulty in recognizing her in their sleepy state; they get up painfully, looking haggard, still in an embrace.†   (source)
  • The haggard look on Finnick's face tells me that now is not the moment to ask.†   (source)
  • Their faces were pale and haggard, scratched and bruised.†   (source)
  • The haggard, gaunt look was gone, but only a careful blankness took its place.†   (source)
  • He had a haggard look as his dark eyes scanned the tennis-court.†   (source)
  • He had thin lips and his mouth drooped, giving him the haggard appearance of a much older man.†   (source)
  • Louie would fall into a line of haggard men.†   (source)
  • He looked worn and tired, battered by battle and haggard from strain.†   (source)
  • Looked sort of like a stone idol in a H. Rider Haggard story.†   (source)
  • It's dusk, the station lights are on, his face is haggard in them.†   (source)
  • She looked worse than he had ever seen her, her face haggard and pate, her eyes darting constantly.†   (source)
  • He became a tall, wiry man with a haggard face and glowing red eyes.†   (source)
  • His eyes were red as if with weeping, his cheeks sunken and haggard, his face colorless.†   (source)
  • But Doc was at my side already, his haggard face alight with anticipation.†   (source)
  • They looked worn and haggard; their movements were as stiff as his own.†   (source)
  • He passed the mirror above the bureau and looked at his haggard, pale face.†   (source)
  • "Disappear?" asked Lavier, studying the haggard face of her captor.†   (source)
  • Mike Orear walked toward them, looking haggard.†   (source)
  • Their faces were haggard, pitted with kernels of grain.†   (source)
  • Bob's face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries.†   (source)
  • He was soaked and sore and haggard, worn thin by grief and betrayal, and sick to death of storms.†   (source)
  • "The Basilias is open," Isabelle said to a haggard-looking Alec.†   (source)
  • The wizard's face was drawn and haggard.†   (source)
  • The old man paused, the moonlight illuminating his haggard face.†   (source)
  • "And no offense," Kara said, "but you're starting to look pretty haggard.†   (source)
  • The rector's was all scored with expression lines and haggard now with exhaustion and grief.†   (source)
  • Luke looked haggard, but his expression was firm.†   (source)
  • There were four of them, hard men with haggard faces, clad in mail and scale and.†   (source)
  • Lord Hoster Tully was much as she had left himabed, haggard, flesh pale and clammy.†   (source)
  • Der went off across the open ground, looking haggard.†   (source)
  • La Mesa's final hopes rested on Byron Haggard's bat.†   (source)
  • He was tall and haggard, with a deeply lined face and a shock of grey-brown hair.†   (source)
  • I must look as haggard as a corpse, and smell of vomit.†   (source)
  • Haggard dove, but the ball went by him into center field for a clean base hit.†   (source)
  • Luke looked haggard, his hair rumpled, one of the lenses of his glasses cracked.†   (source)
  • Out of Paris, out of the race," said Marie, touched by the sight of the old man's haggard face.†   (source)
  • His face had grown haggard, and he had dark circles under his eyes.†   (source)
  • Tom faced the haggard-looking pharmaceutical giant.†   (source)
  • Tom made the decision then, looking at the haggard man in front of him.†   (source)
  • He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.†   (source)
  • He looked away from Kate's haggard face.†   (source)
  • Black, hairy, and haggard, they were as terrible as ghosts.†   (source)
  • She looked very ...haggard, I guess you would say.†   (source)
  • The cook was in the middle of the room, and three sleep-haggard girls stood in the doorway.†   (source)
  • The haggard look comes from being slowly deprived of oxygen.†   (source)
  • "Haggard, that's the word," Nathan went on.†   (source)
  • You also have the haggard, drawn face of a person hooked on nicotine.†   (source)
  • In contrast to when they had first arrived, the soldiers appeared sullen and haggard, their weapons nicked and their armor dented.†   (source)
  • There were deep circles under her eyes, dark circles that jumped out because her face was all haggard.†   (source)
  • That's what it would look like, he thought, if you built a furnace inside the mouth of one of those idols in the H. Rider Haggard stories.†   (source)
  • He appeared to be no more than thirty, but it was a hard thirty, his face haggard and his belly distended from too much partying.†   (source)
  • She stops and turns from the window to look at me, and her face is haggard from remembering all that.†   (source)
  • Eragon's face grew haggard.†   (source)
  • Outside, the fog was thick, not a breath of wind, streetlights burning through with a diffuse, haggard, ashen stillness, softened and blurred to haze.†   (source)
  • His mother and sisters were having cafe con leche and crullers for supper at the formal table in the large dining room when they saw him appear in the door, his face haggard and his entire being dishonored by the whorish perfume of the crows.†   (source)
  • Jaxim had the haggard look common to most artificers in the middle of large projects, as if he were putting off sleep until it was entirely finished.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we only watched them from a distance, all too familiar with their wagging, bovine heads, their haggard shoulders, their rotted, ragged clothing.†   (source)
  • The same way he had always meant it on those mornings after, looking at his pale and haggard face in the bathroom mirror.†   (source)
  • As he descended, Kinney saw POWs scattered over the paddy, looking "dirty, ragged and haggard," and a lone man trying to pull them back.†   (source)
  • Days on the march, trailing behind the khalasar, had left her limping and haggard, with blistered and bleeding feet and hollows under her eyes.†   (source)
  • Riley was on his feet again, looking misshapen and haggard, but he was able to fling a vicious kick into Seth's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Once, when a group of reporters shuffled in to interview Louie, they crowded around Pete, assuming that of the two men, this haggard one had to be the POW.†   (source)
  • Whenever she came into the room he thought of the graven images worshipped by superstitious African tribes in the novels of H. Rider Haggard, and stones, and doom.†   (source)
  • His need for her and his vulnerability to her screamed at him to back off, to placate her while there was still time if indeed there still was , as a tribe in one of ,those Rider Haggard stories would have placated their goddess when she was angry, by making sacrifice to her effigy.†   (source)
  • Jerry felt sad suddenly because Goober looked so troubled, like an old man heaped with all the sorrows of the world, his thin face drawn and haggard, his eyes haunted, as if he had awakened from a nightmare he couldn't forget Jerry opened his locker.†   (source)
  • His face looked haggard.†   (source)
  • Gaunt men and haggard women crowded around every wagon and stall, while others even more ragged looked on sullenly from the mouths of alleys.†   (source)
  • Apart from his injuries, the ogre looked haggard, and Max guessed that he had heard all about Mum's and Bellagrog's troubles.†   (source)
  • His face looked drawn and haggard.†   (source)
  • Where-Eragon abandoned his question as Arya, Blodhgarm, and four other haggard-looking elves sprinted up to Saphira from the direction of the camp.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until almost the very end, as I watched a haggard zombie shambling after the last shrieking survivor, that I realized what the problem was.†   (source)
  • Her twin's face had a haggard look.†   (source)
  • The visitors were dinted and haggard and dusty, yet the standard they carried was the lion of Lannister, golden on its crimson field.†   (source)
  • Eve blocked out his presence, the cold azure eyes that followed her moves, the haggard look to his face, the quick muscle twitch in his jaw.†   (source)
  • He smiled a haggard smile.†   (source)
  • He wore a rumpled gray uniform and a dented metal hat, and though he was full of energy, his face looked haggard, like he hadn't slept in days.†   (source)
  • They were battered until they smiled constantly and simulated joy at the sight of customers, because men would not pay as much for sex with girls with reddened eyes and haggard faces.†   (source)
  • 'What are you talking about?' he shouted with dread, stunned by the haggard, sparking anguish in Dunbar's eyes and by his crazed look of wild shock and horror.†   (source)
  • It still reflected nothing but his own haggard face, bruised, bloodied, and missing a goodly portion of his beard on the right-hand side.†   (source)
  • He knew that a lot of tough finals were avalanching on Rob, who had been haggard and unshaven for days, his wool hat pulled half over his ears, looking like a smooth layer had been burned off of him.†   (source)
  • She looks slightly haggard otherwise, circles about her eyes, with the pallor that comes from lack of sleep.†   (source)
  • The little boy was thin and hollow-cheeked, his mother looked worn and haggard and was obviously hardly able to feed the baby who kept whimpering fitfully: the cry of hunger which is different from the other cries of infants.†   (source)
  • By this time, the twenty-five cavalry soldiers are exhausted, "so haggard and wasted with travel that they had to be kicked into intelligence before they could climb to their saddles," Lieutenant Baker will later recall.†   (source)
  • But his face was clearly visible now, appearing even more worn and haggard than when Max had last seen him at the airport.†   (source)
  • She looked worn and haggard, her face pale with dark circles under her eyes; she was exhausted from the tension and the jet lag of the long, idiotically routed flights from Paris to Washington.†   (source)
  • Johnnie's pale, haggard face took on tragic lines as she listened to this plain putting of her own worst fears.†   (source)
  • But when he came near, she looked into his face, and he saw his own reflection in her eyes—his face haggard, White, spattered with blood, his hands dripping with blood.†   (source)
  • He was filthy, haggard, and pinched with weariness, but he cowered no longer, and his eyes were clear.†   (source)
  • His face was haggard with grief.†   (source)
  • Standing at the gate, an astonishing figure, still in her evening frock, looking haggard and old in the gray, disillusioning light of early morning, was Lydia Sessions.†   (source)
  • The knight dismounted, then hammered on the door until a haggard slave with a horsehead on his cheek came running.†   (source)
  • Despite the tenor of his words, his face became more haggard as he came to the part of his message that would fall the hardest on our ears.†   (source)
  • If truth be told, the king had a haggard, haunted look about him, but he saw no need to burden the boy with his fears.†   (source)
  • Here, yes here indeed was the haggard king whose cold hand had smitten down the Ring-bearer with his deadly knife.†   (source)
  • He had expected Roran and the others to be exhausted, but Roran seemed far more haggard than his companions; he looked as if he had aged five years over the course of the trip.†   (source)
  • Fear of that fate, Eragon was sure, was what had been keeping Nasuada up at night, so that she appeared increasingly haggard each morning, the bags under her eyes like small, sad smiles.†   (source)
  • Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again.†   (source)
  • Awaiting him were Hanggi, Brown and Haggard, each hoping to be the spoiler and ignite a rally by La Mesa.†   (source)
  • He was alarmed to see Bowen Marsh beside him, wan-faced and haggard, his head still wrapped in linen, but listening to all that Lord Janos had to say.†   (source)
  • I had noticed that Urith looked thinner, more haggard and gaunt than usual, but as the same could be said for most of us, I did not think too much of it.†   (source)
  • You look gaunt and haggard.†   (source)
  • Murtagh appeared fit as ever, but there were dark circles under his eyes and his face was haggard; Eragon suspected that he had been under a great strain.†   (source)
  • After Brown's strikeout, Haggard, the second baseman, ended La Mesa's third at bat with an infield pop-up.†   (source)
  • Two were haggard old women he did not know, but Gilly was between them, all bundled up in skins and cradling a bundle of brown and white fur that must have held her baby.†   (source)
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