hard-featured

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Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made him When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, a hard-featured giant brought along from General Motors, where Wilson had originally hired him to get G.M.'s truck division out of the red.

From Time Magazine Archive

Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"That child's a born actress," said the hard-featured man; "she'll be a treasure some day, sure."

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend