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eyes and were
Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.
His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;
His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in.
But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Brenner continued to smile, but his eyes were cold.
There was raw fury in his eyes, and the veins of his neck were swollen.
And what eyes they were.
and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.
The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
Dr. Lalaurie wore a maroon smoking jacket, and his myopic eyes were blurry and glistened behind thick octagonal lenses.
The ridges over his eyes were huge and his eyelids were half shut.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
His hat was gone, the tears were streaming from his eyes.

eyes and black
The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.
`` Tee-wah '', the driver cackled, his black eyes glittering behind dull silver chicken fencing.
) Her Nicolas lay curled in the sun like a fawn, black hair falling over his eyes.
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.
When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.
Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.
Bruises and black eyes were relieved by application of raw beefsteak.
She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody.
A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.
They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.
The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.
The eyes were clear and black and the slender body was arched slightly.
His small black eyes darted inside the olive oval of his face.
Horace, who often wrote in imitation of Alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the Lesbian poet's favourite subjects-Lycus of the black hair and eyes ( C. 1. 32. 11-12: nigris oculis nigroque / crine decorum ).
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.
Conan has " sullen ", " smoldering " and " volcanic " blue eyes with a black " square-cut mane ".
Though several later authors have referred to Conan as " Germanic-looking ", Howard imagined the Cimmerians as a proto-Celtic people with mostly black hair and blue or grey eyes.
Juvenile birds had less prominent grooves in their beaks and had mottled white and black necks, while the eye spot found in adults was not present ; instead, a gray line ran through the eyes ( which still had the white eye ring ) to just below the ears.
It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
Rule 13 of Ignatius ' Rules for Thinking with the Church said: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity [...], if Church shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.
The vast majority of Mongols have black hair and brown eyes, although a certain number of Mongols, particularly the Oirat tribe in western Mongolia tend to exhibit lighter features such as fair skin, blue or green eyes, varying shades of brown hair, and sometimes even red or blonde hair.

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