hard-featured

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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

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

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

Judging from what Staithes is now, it must have been a remarkably primitive and hard-featured place in his day.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter