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• s  having a dirty face
  a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him

• Inside the schoolyard, dirty-faced soldiers clustered around a sergeant who briefed them on the night's security plan.
• He was dirty-faced, disheveled, despairing.
• Little newsboys, big newsboys, dirty-faced ragamuffins, scampering tatterdemalions dropped 19,314 pennies into a pot.