Sentences with phrase «pockmarked old»

The name literally translates as «pockmarked old woman», and is supposed to be an homage to the woman who originally served up the dish in Chengdu, China.

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Tales abound as to where the tender tofu got its name, the most popular being that a «Ma Po» — or old woman with a pockmarked face — served the unique recipe to poorer workers on the outskirts of a highly trafficked merchant city.

The magnetism was strongest in terrain estimated to be between 3.7 billion and 3.9 billion years old, based on how cratered the surface is — older rocks are more pockmarked.

Jackie Maguire was an old man, maybe forty, perhaps older, and he was trying to brush the tears away from his pockmarked face with the back of his hand.