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He memorized these hoary locutions, tossed them left-handed into conversation: wheelwright lodestone, saturnine, adamant.† (source)
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She was backed in a doorway with her gin and lime, being addressed by a saturnine spritely old gentleman with a hard red face and a hard clear voice and a puff of gray hair over each ear.† (source)
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Beneath, his face was lined and saturnine, with thin arched brows above large eyes as black and shiny as pools of coal oil.† (source)
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He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes.† (source)
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With black hair and dark eyes, her looks reflected her saturnine personality growing up.† (source)
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Convocations of the honor court on the top floor of Durrell Hall were always conducted with an inflexible and saturnine efficiency.† (source)
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An angular, towering man, sad-faced and saturnine, wearing heavy-framed glasses, awkward in movement and sparing of speech, he stepped into the hallway, not bothering to glance at Graf.† (source)
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That stormy night when the knocker hammered on the door with such hurried urgency, she stood on the landing, clutching her wrapper to her and, looking down into the hall below, had one glimpse of Tony's swarthy saturnine face before he leaned forward and blew out the candle in Frank's hand.† (source)
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His instructor was a tall shaven man, with a yellow saturnine face.† (source)
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Mallinson shouted; and Barnard, who had also been flung out of his seat, responded with a saturnine: "If he's lucky.† (source)
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A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.† (source)
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The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.† (source)
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Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant and saturnine.† (source)
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When some days afterward in reference to the singularity just mentioned, the Purser, a rather ruddy rotund person more accurate as an accountant than profound as a philosopher, said at mess to the Surgeon, "What testimony to the force lodged in will-power," the latter—saturnine, spare and tall, one in whom a discreet causticity went along with a manner less genial than polite, replied, "Your pardon, Mr. Purser.† (source)
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He pictured the saturnine Gottlieb not at all enjoying the triumph but, with locked door, abusing the papers for their exaggerative reports of his work; and as the picture became sharp Martin was like a subaltern stationed in a desert isle when he learns that his old regiment is going off to an agreeable Border war.† (source)
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The skin was puffed out under his sunken eyes, and its sallowness had paled to a leaden white against which his irregular eyebrows and long reddish moustache were relieved with a saturnine effect.† (source)
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