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a.

1. … master was … man about sixty with colourless eyes and white hair. 2. Ella, … only daughter in … family, was … very good-looking girl, gay and clever. 3. In … street Johnny saw … man. It was … old Jew with … black beard, … pair of deep black eyes stared out from his thin white face. 4. We sat talking in … sitting-room when somebody knocked at … door and … well-dressed man with … pleasant face entered … room. “Here’s … picture of my wife,” he said. And … man showed us … face of … very beautiful woman with … black hair and large dark eyes. 5. One sunny day in June two men were making their way towards … large lake. … first one was … tall and strong man. Indeed he looked … real giant. His manner was … little rude, but his face was very handsome. His companion was … shorter man. His face was not handsome but there was something in it that won … sympathies of people at once.

b.

1. Brodie was … enormous man, over six feet in height and with … shoulders and … neck of … bull. His head was massive, his grey eyes small and deep-set, his jaw hard. … face itself was broad and strong and would have been noble but for the insufficient depth of … forehead and … narrow spacing of … eyes. … heavy brown moustache covered his upper lip, partly hiding … mouth. His hands were huge and upon … backs of these and also of … thick fingers dark hairs grew profusely.

2. Joe was … fair man, with … curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with … eyes of such very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was … mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered dear fellow. My sister, Mrs. Joe, was not … good-looking woman with … black hair.

3. Crass was about 38 years old, rather above middle height and rather stout. He had … considerable quantity of … curly black hair and wore … short beard of … same colour. His head was rather large, but low and flat on … top.

4. Mr. Toodle was … strong, round-shouldered fellow with … good deal of hair, … coarse hands and … square forehead. He was … thorough contrast in all respects to Mr. Dombey, who was one of those close-shaved, close-cut gentlemen who are glossy and crisp like new bank-notes.

5. … traveller was of … middle height with … broad chest. He had … dark face, with … stern features and … heavy brow. He was not … youth but hadn’t reached middle age; perhaps he might be 35.

6. I saw … monkey-like figure creeping from … shade of … hut. When it reached … place where … king sat it threw off … fur from its head and showed … face that made us shiver with … fear. … face belonged to … very old woman and was very small, like … face of … year-old child, all covered with deep yellow wrinkles. There was no nose on this face; … long chin projected under … sunken mouth, but … eyes of this terrible creature were full of fire and understanding. As for … head itself, it was absolutely hairless, and … skin on it moved like the hood of … cobra. This was Gagool, … witch. (R. Haggard)

IV.

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wavy, broad, figure, handsome, shapely, complexion, voice, waist, thick, face: 1. The colonel’s face was cleanly shaven showing a bronzed … . 2. When I was 19 years old, I was a … man. I was not very tall and had a well-made … and a … . My hair was … and coal-black. 3. The man’s dress was white and he wore a golden belt round his … . 4. Kate was more beautiful than the rest. She had a sweet face and fine eyes. Her figure was … . 5. The newcomer was very tall, with a dark Spanish … , expressive black eyes and curly hair, also black. 6. He was a tall elderly man, bronzed after his summer on the Black sea with a thin … . His grey hair was cut very short, but was still … . 7. He tried to disguise his … while speaking over the telephone, but I recognized him.

white, turned-up, rosy, soft, fair, age, grey, small:

Alice is thirteen. She is tall for her … . Her hair is … and … . Her eyes are … and her cheeks are … . She has a … mouth and pretty … teeth. But she has a … nose and she doesn’t like it.

yellow, long, nose:

The girl was between nine and ten years old. She had … legs and … arms, two … pig-tails, a freckled … that turned up and eyes that were almost green and almost brown.

wavy, dark, long, thin, large, shining, smile, neck, high, black:

Near the park I saw a man on horseback. I saw at once that he was a stranger. He was very tall, dressed in rich clothes, with a gold chain hanging about his … and seemed to be about 40. His face was … and …, the mouth was small with a cruel … on it, the forehead … and marked with a scar. The man’s complexion was …, his … hair like my own was … . He had a beard and a pair of moustaches.