hard-featured

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Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.

From Literature

I was standing before him; he fixed his eyes on me very steadily: his eyes were small and grey; not very bright, but I dare say I should think them shrewd now: he had a hard-featured yet good-natured looking face.

From Literature

Each one is a solemn, hard-featured picture that stands apart by itself and has no connecting link with any other one in the language.

From Project Gutenberg

She looked quite her age now: all suggestion of the young girl had gone, she was a stern, hard-featured woman.

From Project Gutenberg

She was almost glad when Bishop and the man in shirt-sleeves emerged from the lodge followed by a tall, hard-featured woman in a dirty mob-cap.

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