plain-featured

Example Sentences

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The latter she fancied much resembled the king, but she was troubled that one of the boys was plain featured.

From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)

Nice, refined, pleasant old maid; although somewhat plain featured.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

Mrs. Baker was a portly woman, aged about forty-five, and plain featured.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Miss Schoffen, more widely known as "Sister Lucretia," is a plain featured woman about 55.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth

‘As a girl I was plain featured, and so shy and awkward that your Uncle Joe used to tell me that I was the only ugly duckling that would never turn into a swan.’

From Our Bessie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette