pasty

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From BBC • May 26, 2022

Pasty and perspiring, he sniffs a lot, as if scenting gold in the nearby mine, and his eyelids droop with fatigue as he issues his commands.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2016

Sapienza positioned Pasty near the line, knowing that the blood-pressure readings there were probably running high.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2015

"Pasty" Pete Doherty showed up for a screening of his acting debut, Confession of a Child of the Century: reaction, to be honest, was not good.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2012

Sometimes a piece of the bottom of a Venison Pasty, put in from the first.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne