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square-jawed

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square-jawed (notcomparable)

  1. Having asquarejaw.
    • 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, inThe Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page523, column 2:
      The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked,square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.
    • 1853 November 17, “Shocking State of Society”, inThe Tri-Weekly Commercial, volume VIII, number105 (whole 1065), Wilmington, N.C.,page[4], column 1:
      Asquare-jawed ruffian, in mud-anointed overcoat, is preluding to a fight with a woman about some etiquette, in one of these dens.
    • 1928, Eugene Jones, “The Murderer”, inThe Last Clue, London: Selwyn & Blount [], page266:
      Chief Blasdel proved to be asquare-jawed, white-moustached individual reminding me somehow of pictures I had seen of General Pershing.
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