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He looked up, with the outlines of a frown vanishing like pencilings under the india-rubber of professional courtesy,—for he was denoting or at the moment, which is fussy work, as it consists exclusively of dots.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch