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She helped a certain harelipped schoolmate with her homework, wrote her a part in the school play; and in return was introduced to that schoolmate’s brother, a man gentle, handsome, and intelligent past imagining.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

I watched them close in on the boy I’d grown up with, the boy whose harelipped face had been my first memory.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Somewhere over those mountains in the west slept the city where my harelipped brother and I had run kites.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

He knew that he wished to obtain the name of the harelipped man and, sincere enemy of his own people though Perley was, he no longer had any objection to telling.

From The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

He was a heavy-set man of about 38, harelipped, an old ragged shirt and breechcloth his only apparel, and with nothing of his former grandeur but the memory.

From Negritos of Zambales by Reed, William Allan