What is "lantern-jawed"

Usage examples of "lantern-jawed".

It was done, and a lantern-jawed cowpuncher brought out a piebald gelding with long ears and sleepy eyes.

And beside them the lantern-jawed cowpuncher held the bridle of the piebald mustang.

The village leader, a lantern-jawed man with big eyes, heavy eyebrows, and a gentle smile, welcomed the prospect of two more laborers.

Whitaker Monk might have been any age between thirty-five and fifty-five, so non-committal was that lantern-jawed countenance of a droll, with its heavy, black, eloquent eyebrows, its high and narrow forehead merging into an extensive bald spot fringed with greyish hair, its rather small, blue, illegible eyes, its high-bridged nose and prominent nostrils, its wide and thin-lipped mouth, its rather startling pallor.

IIInowidctlparpardFor some days past, the well-peeled eye might at intervals have observed a cadaverous and lantern-jawed individual protruding about six and a half feet upwards from the cobbled paving of Upper Berkeley Mews.

A lantern-jawed man hopped off the cement mixer and strolled toward Chet.

The Bureau was hypersensitive to incidents incongruous with the lantern-jawed crime-buster image promoted by J.

That was a lantern-jawed Redarm, a file leader with a long-suffering expression and a crude tattoo of a hawk on his left cheek.

Haitian, a lantern-jawed Tairen file leader with a crude tattoo of a hawk on his left cheek, was berating Corevin.