close-set eyes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The ears were small, close-set and queerly pointed. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
Small, close-set eyes threw menacing daggers at me. From Wordnik.com. [Ms Longshot]
Figure VI. 8 shows bricks close-set in a covered hack. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
His little black close-set eyes regarded her narrowly. From Wordnik.com. [Trader To The Stars]
The bur is very thick and fleshy, with close-set spines. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Ahead was an open space between close-set ranks of columns. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
Fear flickered in Al's close-set eyes, but he moved up another rung. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Trailer Mystery]
His ears were close-set, lobeless, and pulled down into his bull neck. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
The monster stared at her impassively from out of his close-set brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
‘That is good talk,’ said our entertainer, and his close-set eyes flashed. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
"Why not?" he asked, with a smile which went no further than his close-set lips. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The makeover was extensive but they'd left the close-set, opaque blue eyes alone. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
The nun's countenance and dark brown close-set eyes challenged the child before her. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Lady]
Vines clutched at his feet, and the close-set bushes seemed unwilling to let him pass. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
His nose was long and sharp, his forehead slanting, his close-set eyes a greenish-gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
There, just ahead, was a row of close-set pilings, blocking the stream from shore to shore. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
His close-set eyes rest neutrally on me for a moment, assessing the plausibility of my claim. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
Its eyes were small, bloodshot, and very close-set while its nose bulged like an outcrop of rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
Laying his spear carefully by his side, he reached through the close-set bars with his other hand. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
The captain's close-set eyes narrowed as his own sight sought confirmation of the oldster's words. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
His close-set eyes and loudly striped suit combined to give him a somewhat disreputable appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
There was the same low, ridged forehead, close-set eyes, muscular but chinless jaw, protruding teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
"Whatcher lookin 'at?" roared one of the cow-punchers, a big fellow with close-set eyes and a heavy jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains] Reference
Minutes later the officer returned, ushering in a tall young man with dark hair and close-set blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
It was of an attractive middle-aged man with longish hair, round, close-set eyes, and a chin like granite. From Wordnik.com. [html]
His grey-blue eyes, close-set above a long, tapered nose, gave his countenance a perpetually skeptical cast. From Wordnik.com. ['The Great Oom'] Reference
In graduation pictures Rose and Molly and Janie shared the same dark hair and close-set, mysterious eyes: exotic. From Wordnik.com. [Salesman] Reference
Notwithstanding the fact that a crude bamboo comb with close-set teeth is made use of, the vermin are never eliminated. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Quist, a bandy-legged, wiry little man with a large bulb of a nose and close-set, small, eyes, moved back from the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
Johanna had been staring at Chitiratte, now she was looking up at Vendacious, her shifty little close-set eyes narrowing. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Though much less articulate than Johnny, Dubya shared the same twinkling close-set eyes and “naughty boy” generous smile. From Wordnik.com. [Separated at Birth] Reference
The head has a pair of close-set compound eyes that are fused in one genus (Cyclestheria) and 10 to 32 pairs of thoracic legs. From Wordnik.com. [Crustacea] Reference
Her nose was too long, her eyes too close-set, her chin not sufficiently rounded to give her a girlish and pleasing appearance. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
"Ah," she said, staring at a sheet of folded paper, whose close-set print marked it indelibly as something written in governmentese. From Wordnik.com. [Destination Brain]
When I dimmed the light still further, it seemed as though we had come out into a night strewn with millions of close-set tiny stars. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
I reached the top I saw the alligator swimming away from the very spot where I had been standing, its small close-set eyes fastened on me. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
The huge creature stared at her with cruel, close-set eyes -- eyes that were above her own even though the ogre was squatting on its heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
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