Example Sentences

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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

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

He recognized at once the harelipped man, Bird, now in the uniform of a Colonel in the King's army.

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

An English officer named Bird, a harelipped man, came with a great force of Indians, some white men and cannon.

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