Word: lipping
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...Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only once did Ash fall; in the second round one of Villa's wild blows caught the back of his head, knocked him through the ropes. Villa...
...interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios...
...upper lip bristling with mustachios...
...Stanford White, connoisseur of beauty in art and women, already had won her. Her hair as black as smoke in the night, her eyes limpid and violet, her under lip full and tremulous, her bosom shallow as the chest of a growing boy, her experience that of a woman much older, she held out her arms to the wastrel Pittsburgher and he rushed into them...
...literary heroine of the future will no longer have to depend in order to captivate her thousands, upon the questionable charms of a delicately tinted cheek, or the alluring curve of a car mine lip, if one can take stock in the theories of Professor Charles Lalo, of the Sorbonne, who has just published monumental treatise on "The Bankruptcy of Beauty." Professor Lalo asserts that "mere youth" presumably with its attendant attractions "must not hope to compete in the lists of gallantry with the riper charms of experience, conscious coquetry, and the maturer ability of self-abnegation...