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...Dubuque, Iowa, there lives, doubtless, an old lady. Her existence is recognized only because certain middle-aged people in Manhattan began some weeks ago to think about her. She came frequently into their conversation and, at each allusion, a leer passed round the company?all spoke in derisive terms of her taste, though the kinder-hearted merely pitied her for being the victim of an unfortunate environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Yorker | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...person, as are many who excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beethoven Notebooks | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...umpire leer ebry time dat he calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPRESSIONS A LA FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. | 6/19/1883 | See Source »

...leer that is ghastly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VISIT TO A YOUNG M.D. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

...worse than brule; that bestial, idiot leer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALLEY OF THE VISP. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

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