Sentence Examples
Although Jones looks like a pug-faced baby and Watkins is all lean, ferrety anxiety, they could almost be brothers. |
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He was a wicked looking youngster, with green eyes, tow-coloured hair and a ferrety expression. |
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The weaselish ferrety damage coincides all too well with Sporkenbobble's plans. |
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He probably meant to sound authoritative, but only succeeded in sounding ferrety. |
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The main purveyor is the ferrety Draco Malfoy, who brings a particularly Aryan look to his baleful glare and assorted discriminations. |
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Stephens was a ferrety fellow, often in poor health, and Haley is an alarmingly close match. |
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Ally had always guessed that underneath Yvonne's neat sweetness — plucked straight brows, small nose, pink ears — something ferrety was waiting to appear. |
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Mr. Lauda, an Austrian, was socially awkward, a little ferrety looking, and obsessive about the mechanical details of racing and the risks, which he endlessly calculated and recalculated. |
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There are now four separate monthly series, spotlighting Eccleston's brooding Ninth, Tennant's ferrety Tenth, Smith's fez-loving Eleventh and Capaldi's guitar-shredding Twelfth, respectively. |
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Ferrety face crumpling as his former butties showed him their backs. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
His eyes were ferrety, his nose and cheeks fiery red, his countenance even in rest had a savage expression. |
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Meanwhile Pierre had listened anxiously, his ferrety little eyes shifting from face to face. |
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He had keen, ferrety eyes, a sharp financial nose, a thin-lipped line of mouth which indicated little of human kindness. |
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He had the lowest forehead I have ever seen in a white man, and such a sharp, ferrety little face. |
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Eileen looked away from the ferrety eyes that searched hers. |
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His sharp, ferrety eyes were searching everywhere for his stick. |
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He had a rubicund countenance, huge mustachios, and small, ferrety eyes. |
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I remember one thin-legged, ferrety, red-haired lad in particular. |
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