Tall and lean with ascetic features, Lon was typical of the Martian people descended from the colonists who had taken the red planet as their own centuries ago.

"Very ascetic features," Brown said.

The abbot, a thin, dark man with pale, ascetic features had courte- ously given them directions to reach the farseeing Place of Power.

The esper representative, a tall and slender youth with sharp ascetic features, faraway eyes, and aStevie Blue Burns in Glory T-shirt, rose slowly to her feet.

A tall elderly man of ascetic features and spindly build appeared in the doorway and bowed slightly, with the elegance of long practice.

The man's dark, ascetic features were bruised and swollen.

He was a thin, intense man with sharp, ascetic features and the long, sensitive fingers of an artist.

His fine, al- most ascetic features, bore their usual sardonic ex- pression.

Slow-moving and slow-talking, he had the feral, ascetic features of an avenging lawman of the mythic West.