| 单词 | close-set |
| 例句 | He considered my answer for a minute, and I tried hard to stare at his close-set eyes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She continues to point, blinking at me with close-set eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Yayoi people averaged an inch or two taller, had close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A widow’s peak, close-set dark eyes, pinched cheeks, a mustache wriggling like a worm above a mouthful of broken brown teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man beside him was no beauty either; hulking, black-browed, he had a flat nose, heavy jowls dark with stubble, small black close-set eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kay put on one of the left-hand gauntlets and called Cully from the perch—but Cully, with all his feathers close-set and malevolent, glared at him with a mad marigold eye and refused to come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is that awful stuff with close-set, long spikes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a homely, lanky, young fellow with close-set eyes, and a wide, expressive mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his lord father’s eyes—small, close-set, queerly pale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The other had hungry eyes close-set above a pointed nose, a thin brown beard that did not quite conceal the weak chin beneath it, a bald head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The old man’s nose was pinched and sharp, his lips thin, his eyes small and close-set. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was thin, sharply angular, with close-set eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z An artist from Bangkok flew in to paint murals on the close-set walls, of women in gold headdresses with cascading red and green hair. Thai Dishes That Pave a Chef’s Path Home in Elmhurst, Queens 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z That famously pugnacious chin is a little receded, but those familiar close-set eyes, which he passed on to his eldest son, Michael, are bright. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Somber and squat, with a double chin and close-set eyes, he doesn’t look a thing like the rangy and rumpled English actor Ben Miles, who plays him. Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z That evening, the place was packed with a combination of people-watching tourists and arty locals in various configurations chatting between close-set tables. Restaurant Report: Joseph’s of Santa Fe 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Yet to me she is anything but, with her chipmunk cheeks, close-set eyes and depilated face. The man who stole the Mona Lisa 2011-08-05T21:55:04Z Some focused on the sculpture's toothy smile, others on its close-set, bulging eyes. Self-taught sculptor defends grinning Ronaldo bust 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The latest Honda Odyssey minivan suggests kinship with luxury vehicles; its chrome close-set handles resemble the paired handles on vintage cars with center-opening suicide doors. Design: Some Handles Go Into Hiding; Others Make Grand Entrance 2011-07-03T03:27:01Z He's certainly a distinctive-looking guy, with big, vulpine features and close-set, startlingly blue eyes. "Limitless": Take a pill, become a celebrity 2011-03-17T01:02:00Z A few hours to chill, then into the oven, from which it emerges as a great mottled crepe with burnished whorls and, inside, close-set layers like an accordion’s pleats. Layers of Flaky Dough, and History, at King Tut Pie 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones, who was nicknamed Possum for his close-set eyes and pointed nose, and later No-Show Jones for the concerts he missed during drinking and drug binges, was a legendary figure in country music. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z But her long nails and close-set eyes, both quizzical and confrontational, spoke of the toughness of someone singularly capable of protecting herself. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The close-set lines even produce an optical glare very much like a desert mirage. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Silva was unconventionally handsome, capable of conveying eerie menace or rugged masculinity with his poker face, close-set eyes, blade-like cheekbones and sinuous physicality. Henry Silva, versatile Hollywood villain, dies at 95 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z On the main floor, close-set tables arguably create energy, while flatscreens showing sports above the bar are menaced by horn-shaped spikes embedded in a whitewashed faux-brick wall. Restaurant review: STK Steakhouse brings over-the-top glam to Bellevue at Canlis-level prices — is it worth it? 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z At Buuzecedi, a famous Damascene restaurant, men in bomber jackets sat at small, close-set tables, hunched over tea and falafel. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The citizenry responded from the get-go, with the close-set tables and long marble bar becoming home away from home for one and all. As all-time favorite restaurant Café Presse closes forever, Seattle says a sad adieu 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z A town of 9,000 that was once a center of coal and steel, Canonsburg is filled with close-set houses, many with broad front porches, that rise up steep hills. A War Is Ending. A Pennsylvania Town Exhales. 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z About real-life hillbillies who live near Hot Springs, who come down out of the mountains to peddle goods at craft fairs and whom you recognize by their angular faces, crooked noses, close-set eyes and buck-teeth. The ride of Sam Snead’s life - Golf Digest 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z "But perched atop its fluffy woolly-white body, the penetrating, close-set eyes, full pink lips and flared nostrils of the original lamb are, at a minimum, eye-catching, if not alarmingly anthropomorphic," wrote Smithsonian Magazine. Ghent Altarpiece Lamb of God's 'alarmingly humanoid' face stuns art world 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He was more interested in telling about the real-life hillbillies not far from his home in Hot Springs, Va., who were recognizable by their angular faces, crooked noses, close-set eyes and buck teeth. It's time to remember Sam Snead - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z A cell responding to the distance between two eyes, for example, might fire slowly in response to close-set eyes, but rapidly to ones set farther apart. How the brain’s face code might unlock the mysteries of perception 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z I feel like I’ve been very old for a very long time,” he says, squinting his close-set eyes. Chris O'Dowd: ‘I was the funny friend of the girls I fancied. It was a comfort’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z He said their close-set rows let mites “crawl through like a highway from rose to rose.” Deadly plant disease threatens nation’s $250M rose business 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z He said their close-set rows let mites "crawl through like a highway from rose to rose." Deadly plant disease threatens $250M rose business 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Khan, a slender laborer with close-set eyes, fled to a rented house on the outskirts of Jalalabad. U.S. airstrikes rise sharply in Afghanistan — and so do civilian deaths 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Kilmeade, a New Yorker with close-set eyes and a childlike curiosity, is the everyman. Fox & Friends in the henhouse: how Trump's beloved show wields power 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Now, it’s solidly middle-class, with rows of close-set houses with manicured laws. I know who killed the Black Dahlia: my own father 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “Yeah, but maybe we were the real winners in the end,” he said, his close-set eyes suddenly flaring. Johan Cruyff: ‘Maybe we were the real winners in 1974. The world remembers our team more’ 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Large, close-set eyes give them such sharp depth perception that these ghost cats can gauge the exact distance of any prey, even of humans. Santa Monica's Mountain Lions Are Stuck on an Island, and Fast Disappearing 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Two large coils of sharply barbed wire were stacked between close-set sturdy metal poles in a structure being built by soldiers and unemployed Hungarians on “workfare” programs. Migrants Push Toward Hungary as a Border Fence Rises 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The bridge is brilliantly illuminated by 140 night, and close-set globes of gas, looped on running tubes along both sides of these three festal streets, pour floods of light into the casetas. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Opening a couple of tins of strawberry jam into the bowl, I rounded over smoothly the bright succulent mass and then made a close-set raspberry mosaic of one side of it. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Eye and mind are refreshed by that broad expanse of spreading vines clothing hill and valley with their close-set trailing verdure. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He had replaced his hat now, and was no longer looking at her, but down across the shelving slope of hillside, spiked with slender trees, as close-set as the bristles of a giant brush. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The giant's close-set little eyes roved about inquisitively. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z In tall and close-set ranks they serve to hide from view and shield from ambush the long, low Indian houses, twenty-four in number. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z But every now and then she would wedge between a close-set pair of boulders and resist the force of the current to drive her on. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z In these, as in Patella, the typical ctenidia are aborted, and the branchial function is assumed by close-set lamelliform processes arranged in a series beneath the mantle-skirt on either side of the foot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The nose or snout is black in colour, long and full; the eyes small, black, or black-blue; and the ears small, round, close-set, and neat. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Here the wing has become transformed into a paddle, clothed on both sides with a covering of small, close-set feathers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The man on the posters has pale, close-set eyes, is well groomed, and has a curiously long neck. Out of the Shadow of Fear in Syria 2011-06-05T14:00:00Z Mr. Spoelmann's lips quivered as he recounted it, the first time no less than the second, and, longing for comfort and expressions of disapproval, he looked round the table with his little, close-set, metallic eyes. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z For a moment, the pale eyes in turn studied him through their narrowed, close-set shutters, evidently “marking” for later identification. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z "American wardrobe trunk," he said, as though he had been tall enough to see over the close-set screen, and took no interest in what it hid. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z As his friends successfully found mates, married and started families, Mr. Wang, a thin man with close-set eyes and a crop of thick black hair, met failure. Bus Crash in the Bronx Ends a Man?s Fight for His Family 2011-03-22T02:37:20Z Quarren sat meditating under his mask, cross-legged, twirling his sword, the crash of the floor orchestra dinning in his close-set ears. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z He sniffed about him and peered into the darkness with his close-set eyes. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z The dominant nose, the small, obstinate eyes, the close-set, autocratic mouth, tell the character of the man who was come to be the new and the last Director-General of New Netherland. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z His face always wore that calm, imperturbable expression denoting a well-balanced mind and a thorough self-control, while the immobile countenance and close-set lips showed that he was naturally as inscrutable as the Sphinx. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z He was a heavy-jowled, heavy-handed, heavy-bodied individual, with black hair, close-set eyes, and, what was curiously at variance with those heavy jowls, a long and pointed nose. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Tiny, close-set eyes, prominent snout, no forehead to speak of: it sure sounds like a pig. A Masterpiece of Nature? Yuck! 2010-08-09T22:16:00Z In these forms the chitinous lining of the tubes is thickened by a close-set spiral ridge similar to the spiral thickening of the cellulose wall of the spiral vessels of plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" I was walking along a quiet roadside, almost dusky beneath the shade of close-set giant maples, when an unexpected fragrance breathed upon me. The Jonathan Papers The teeth are numerous in both jaws, and more than 20⁄20 in number, occupying nearly the whole length of the rostrum, and small, close-set, conical, pointed and slightly curved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" We no longer received the news of defeat with cries of dismay, with teeth close-set, a smile upon the quivering lips, and a burning fire within. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Their dense and prickly foliage promises security from invasion, while the close-set branches offer most attractive building-sites. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Griselda had rebuffed him too decidedly for him to risk another public manifestation of her repugnance to him, and he watched her with his small close-set eyes with anything but a benign expression. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days This garment is buttoned under the left arm with a row of six small, close-set silver buttons, while a belt indicates where the waist should be. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia When the thunder-clouds are ensnared between close-set wooded mountains and sharply pointed rocks, they can find no outlet. Landolin Vital and lithe: with a close-set casque of jet hair, mouth like a crushed mulberry against satin, mutinous eyes and chin: the wild, slight, heavy-scented flower of these climes. Where the Pavement Ends The close-set, symmetrical branches provide the best of perches for inexperienced feet. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road There was strength on it, an immense, all-conquering strength; there was the mark of strain, in deepened line and close-set lip; but there was something else—something dominating, overriding. What a Man Wills The whole surface of the ground was covered with a luxuriant growth of weeds, interspersed with entangling vines and creepers, and in some places with close-set thickets of spice-wood or other undergrowth. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Grass-grown aisles run between the rows of vaults, and the effect is a true city of the dead with narrow streets shut in by close-set houses. Pledged to the Dead A pavilion, gold-topped, wreathed with lush jessamine, beckoned with a special significance over close-set shrubs. The Golden Age His wrinkled face was twisted in anger, and his shifty, close-set eyes of watery blue glared at the two men before him. Warrior of the Dawn Round about this tree Ulysses built the chamber, and finished it with close-set stones, and roofed it over, and made close-fastening doors. Tales of Troy and Greece Iron-gray hair and mustache; steely, quick moving eyes, but not restless; hard lines that blocked out close-set lips; a firm decided step. The Vision of Elijah Berl He laughed, but only with his mouth; the close-set eyes remained unchanging, watchful. Feline Red It looked as though it had been raked by a close-set harrow. In the Brooding Wild Pryak, his close-set eyes of watery blue blazing with an inner fire, rose from his chair. Warrior of the Dawn The lines across his fair, smooth forehead, and by his close-set mouth spoke for themselves. A Monk of Cruta She stopped blowing to gape at his good news, turning up at him her low, skinny forehead, narrow nose, and close-set, winking eyes. Cudjo's Cave He made several swinging bows at Lancaster, and took him in shrewdly from eyes that were round and close-set. The Plow-Woman The heavy gate was quickly barred, while bullets pattered against the close-set palings. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters The sporangia occur in close-set tufts or clusters, are distinct, separate at their tips and bases only; perhaps not always at base. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The man had nervous close-set eyes and seemed embarrassed by his need to make such a visit. The Junkmakers His head was rather small, round, well poised, with soft close-set ringlets all over it like a cap, in the fashion of some marble gods I have seen. Gold Her flashing glances took note of everything about her, and her lips were close-set and firm. Money Magic A Novel Lust shone from its close-set eyes—lust and passion. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 It was a determined face, as the thin lips and close-set eyes showed, but Duvall noted with satisfaction signs of weakness about the half-open mouth. The Ivory Snuff Box He rode alongside, and his close-set little eyes regarded keenly Tom’s face. Rim o' the World I sat down and signed it, but I would rather have jabbed a pen between his close-set lips to give him a taste of his own ink. The O'Ruddy A Romance Kennedy, seeing everything and talking pleasantly with one of the barkeepers, his close-set teeth gleaming twenty feet away, stood at the end of the bar sliding an empty glass between his hands. Whispering Smith Above the west door runs a projecting gallery whose parapet, like all the other parapets of the church, is defended by a close-set row of pointed battlements. Portuguese Architecture Only the lower lip protruded as the man set his jaw, and the little, close-set, porcine eyes narrowed. The Crevice The animal roared again, stared about him as if he thought the place was bewitched, and plunged headlong into the nearest thicket, tearing out both arrows as he went through the close-set stems. In the Morning of Time Lee's grandfather knew a great many things that he never did tell, but once in awhile he was willing to open his close-set old mouth and talk. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor He was personable though advancing to middle age, and handsome as men go, though his eyes were close-set and cunning. A Modern Mercenary Vines clutched at his feet, and the close-set bushes seemed unwilling to let him pass. David and the Phoenix Round each sweet brow the cap close-set Hardly lets peep the golden hair; Through the soft-open'd lips the air Scarcely moves the coverlet. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold As he stood watching her depart, all that was worst in him rose to the surface and centred in his close-set eyes. Captain Desmond, V.C. Instead of the walls being cleft apart, however, he imagined the explosion of close-set domes of molten rock the riving power, but conceived that ice and water erosion finished the job. The Book of the National Parks This time there was no chuckle, and Bud could imagine the close-set, greedy eyes of the other, one of them slightly crossed, boring into him in the dark. The Free Range Then they were flying at full speed, dodging through gaps in the branches and between close-set trunks, with leaves and twigs slashing them from every side. David and the Phoenix The hang-dog expression of the face with its close-set eyes and crooked scar above them showed how far the evil life had robbed the man of power. Winning the Wilderness You are a cultivated rose now, you know—” She turned her face at an angle which left him nothing to look at but one small, close-set ear. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories He looked into her close-set eyes; and hope died. Athalie His close-set eyes shot shrewd glances from beneath black bushy eyebrows with a keen, penetrating gaze, as though nothing escaped him. The Stretton Street Affair He is kind of squat, with a vulturish neck and close-set jet-black eyes that make him look rather mean, but he was pleasant enough, and said I could call him Pat. The Dope on Mars Rather a small man, with close-set, dark eyes; signed his name in a cramped, left-handed writing. Winning the Wilderness Oliver, looking up at the person who addressed him and gauging his close-set, hard gray eyes and his narrow, dark face, conceived an instant dislike and distrust of the stranger. The Windy Hill Again the close-set, hard eyes clamped fast to the wavering ones of the tortured outlaw. The Fighting Edge "Why not?" he asked, with a smile which went no further than his close-set lips. A Sheaf of Corn No one could fail to notice the vast breadth of shoulder, the firm, columnar throat, and the small athlete's head with close-set ears. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 Quist, a bandy-legged, wiry little man with a large bulb of a nose and close-set, small eyes, moved back from the door. The Star Hyacinths "A dream—only another dream," he said to himself, and laughed between his close-set teeth. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Was it the cold, close-set eyes, the crook of the large nose, or the tight-lipped mouth gave the fellow that semblance to a rapacious wolf? The Fighting Edge His close-set eyes and extremely short upper lip gave him a perpetual sneer. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] So she made no sound, and lay upon her bed writhing in pain and holding her sides with all her might, but with close-set teeth and silent lips. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The bur is very thick and fleshy, with close-set spines. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 Poor Bert winced, and quivered, and squirmed, but not a cry escaped from his close-set lips. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia The close-set trees, seen from above, appear like scrub, like close-set ti-tree. A Tramp's Notebook He saw the high cheek bones and close-set eyes, and then he felt the shock as they struck the hostile line. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The boy's close-set eyes peered up sharply as Mary Louise opened the door. Stubble The ligule is a ridge of close-set hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses His nose was long and sharp, his forehead slanting, his close-set eyes a greenish-gray. The Fifth Ace His nose was long, his jaw was long, his hair needed cutting and was greasy, while his close-set blue eyes had a decidedly mean expression. The Dude Wrangler As if the chewing of food had unlocked Flagg’s close-set jaws, he talked a bit to Latisan after the meal and while the horses were put to the jumper. Joan of Arc of the North Woods As she walked to the door, the other clerk, the one with the close-set eyes, was saying something to him in a sharp tone. Stubble The ligule is a fringe of close-set long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Anti-rodent treatments which proved injurious to trees were reported to be; tar paper wrappings; coal tar washes; close-set creosoted posts; oil sprays; "any paint"; any chemical to smear on trunks; rooting cement. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 Mullinix grasped it eagerly, pressed it out flat and took one glance at the familiar signature, written below the close-set array of seemingly meaningless and unrelated letters. From Place to Place Looking up, down, and across the river, Paul stands, steadying the boat with both oars, his thin-bladed dagger flashing from close-set jaws. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 His beady, close-set eyes and hair sleeked back. Stubble The ligule is a fringe of close-set hairs on an inconspicuous ridge. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Swooping along the shore they came, across the mouth of the bay, flock after flock so close-set and low-lying that they didn't need guns. Sonnie-Boy's People A light mist garlanded their tops, and a graceful, close-set underbrush pressed against their immemorial trunks. The Long Roll They form a narrow gateway of rock, and through those close-set jaws the raging river has to pass. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance One of these imposin', dignified, well kept old sports, with pink cheeks, a long, straight nose, and close-set, gray-blue eyes. Shorty McCabe on the Job The close-set eyes protrude greatly and are very mobile. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Her breath was still coming In small, quick gasps; but there was no shadow of fear in her eyes; no lightest tremor about her close-set lips. The Great Amulet The Burman dodged round the corner of the hut, and struck at once into a hard well-trodden path which was at once swallowed up in the thick shade of a close-set grove of bamboos. Jack Haydon's Quest His high-domed head was of monumental baldness, his eyes close-set and crafty, his nose negligible. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The plant sends up a stout central stem, growing upright to a height of about 2 ft., with close-set, large thick, plain leaves of a light red or purplish hue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" An elderly, well-dressed woman, with close-set eyes, rather thick lips, and a short nose, was grinding coffee near a flaming stove, on which an urn of boiling water was bubbling merrily. The Red Horizon The horns in their early stage are soft and full of blood-vessels on the surface, covered with a delicate skin, with fine close-set hairs commonly called the velvet. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Except for a few yards ahead, where the way was lit up and the arch of close-set stones glimmered grey, the blackness would have been unbroken had it not been for the tunnel-lights. My Friend the Chauffeur His close-set eyes and loudly striped suit combined to give him a somewhat disreputable appearance. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung He could read nothing of the man's mind through the downcast eyelids, with their long black fringe of close-set lashes. The Golden Silence Jack's mind was made up in a flash, but, even in the brief instant he hesitated, the stranger's keen, close-set eyes narrowed suspiciously. The Border Boys Across the Frontier The male dark earthy brown above, lighter below; rump lighter coloured; tail one inch; white ruff of long hairs on throat and chin; hair of body short, brittle, and close-set. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Hampton's captive, known to them only as Shorty, a heavy, surly man whose small, close-set eyes burned evilly under his pale brows, rode that night between Hampton and Judith down to the ranch-house. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch The close-set eyes were full of light, and the thin lips curved into a smile. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis Low houses with flat roofs or miniature domes, small, secret doorways, tiny windows like eyes narrowed for spying, and overhanging upper stories supported on close-set, projecting sticks of mellow brown which meant great age. The Golden Silence Notwithstanding the fact that a crude bamboo comb with close-set teeth is made use of, the vermin are never eliminated. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir For a moment or two she stood gazing around her and her close-set ears seemed to be listening. Police!!! It appeared that a dangerous fire had broken out in the neighborhood, and was rapidly consuming the close-set wooden village, as such fires generally do without remedy. Russian Rambles The close-set eyes flashed, and the nostrils dilated. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis Then they came to the stockade of close-set pointed poles. Time Crime These were great shambling parodies of humanity, long-armed, short-legged, twice as heavy as men, with close-set reddish eyes and heavy bone-crushing jaws. Genesis Occasionally, jaggedly uneven, close-set trunks of forest growth would appear, spectral in solemn ugliness, a veritable hedge, impenetrable and grim. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France For a moment he looked at the figure steadily; then, in distinct animal cunning, the lids of the close-set eyes tightened. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman The muslin was white, with a close-set lavender sprig, and she wore a cameo brooch at her throat. Jane Field A Novel A frieze, close-set as peas in a pod, grimaced from the molding. Maida's Little Shop The close-set eyes shifted frantically from side to side. Berry And Co. The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay. The Big-Town Round-Up Long hair drooped over one cheek, the close-set eyes were filled with fury, the white teeth gleamed menacingly. The Black Box By the way, have you, in your employ, a dark, square-faced individual, with close-set eyes and a straggling moustache? The Riddle of the Frozen Flame And they made a grave for him, and over the grave they put close-set stones, and over it all they raised a great barrow. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy The smouldering patches of red on the crumbling logs shrank smaller and smaller as the close-set little points of fire died out, and the feathery ash-flakes fell in a soft pile on the hearthstone. Secret Bread Thin columns of blue smoke drifted up here and there between the close-set tents, and the sibilant wearing of stone-mills, as they ground the wheat, was heard in many households. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There was wild hatred in its close-set eyes, the snarl of something fiend-like in its contorted mouth. The Black Box The trees hung, shadows in a brooding twilight; between the close-set pillars of the hills the sky showed slate-hued, with pallid feathers of cloud driven across. Foes But Cromwell's face, with its long upper lip and close-set grey eyes, appeared over his shoulder, and Ralph turned round, almost deprecatingly. The King's Achievement Then she rose up while the old steward took the wine and tried to force it between the close-set teeth, and she called the farm servants to her. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut Accordingly, the twelve cutting teeth of a horse are close-set and concentrated in the fore part of its mouth, like so many adzes or chisels. American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology There are no close-set mosaics in his somewhat slip-shod prose, and he did not seek for the right word "with moroseness," like Landor. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He had close-set, insignificant eyes, much wrinkled, and stubbly eyebrows streaked with grey. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Near the south-west corner of Covent Garden, a square brick pit or well is formed by a close-set block of houses, to the back windows of which it admits a few rays of light. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Again he felt the check of something intangible but real; and the vanity in him, flicked on the raw, peered out at her from his close-set eyes. The Younger Set Round this I formed my chamber, and I worked till it was done, building it out of close-set stones, and roofing it over well. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Accordingly, the twelve cutting teeth of a horse are close-set and concentrated in the forepart of its mouth, like so many adzes or chisels. Darwinism (1889) An hour later, the great trees, oak and chestnut, beech and poplar, suddenly gave way to saplings, many, close-set, and overrun with grapevines. Audrey The eagle eyes beneath their heavy brows were gazing straight ahead, the firmly moulded lips were close-set, the whole profile, with its large but well-cut nose, suggested grim endurance. The Twenty-Fourth of June He clasped his blunt fingers and leaned forward, projecting his whole body, thick legs curled under; but his close-set eyes still looked past Ruthven. The Younger Set The long, pinched nose, the close-set eyes, the small mouth with drawn-in corners, the square chin,--every feature, in short, contributes to give a hard and obstinate character to the face. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt A master tells his message in close-set language. Music Talks with Children Yet she continued to meet his gaze, for so should apologies be given though the skies fall; and she watched as one fascinated the blood slowly ebb from his close-set face. Queed His close-set eyes gripped those of the sheriff. A Man Four-Square She listened absently, her chin nestling in her palm, only the close-set, perfect ear turned toward him. The Younger Set His suit of broad checks, his tan shoes, and his large diamond stud were strangers, but his little close-set eyes, protruding teeth, and bushy hair were hatefully familiar. Sandy "Probably something for her own good," said Mr. V.V., with a close-set mouth; leaving Kern to reflect that that was a funny way to talk at a party. V. V.'s Eyes And as the stream bounded over the steps, between the close-set walls, it broke here and there into foam, whilst the edges of the stones, washed clear by the downpour, shone out like glass. A Love Episode "Promise it?" asked Waldron, leaning eagerly forward, a strange light in those close-set, greenish eyes. The Air Trust The monotonous strokes of an axe were suddenly intermitted, and somewhere from the depths of the close-set pines a voice answered "Flip." Frontier Stories Robert, still watching the close-set cruel eyes, saw a look of doubt appear there. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign There, just ahead, was a row of close-set pilings, blocking the stream from shore to shore. Virginia: the Old Dominion Over the distant range of hills were scattered close-set roofs, and you could divine that the sea of houses rolled afar off behind the undulating ground, into the fields hidden from sight. A Love Episode Fifteen, and then twenty, before Waldron finally appeared, immaculate in white, bare-armed and with a loose, checked cap shading his close-set eyes. The Air Trust But between the girl and that last row of close-set trees, waiting his coming, stood the woman with the disfigured face. The Eyes of the World He stared straight into the close-set cruel eyes so fixedly and so long that the captain lowered his gaze, proving that the superior strength of will lay with his younger opponent. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign Lawrence followed suit, his close-set eyes focused belligerently on Carroll's face, the hostility of his manner being akin to a personal menace. Midnight Down to the ground he came in the utter blackness of the close-set boles and the overhanging verdure of the jungle. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar She wondered, and when she looked at him—at his close-set, shifty eyes and repulsive features, she shuddered, for she was convinced that no lofty characteristics could be hid behind so foul an exterior. Beasts of Tarzan Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself. Return of Tarzan He was a tall and very strong man, and Robert noted the look of cruelty in the close-set eyes. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign And now, his huge gaunt form more erect than it had been for years, with a glinting of blue fires in his small and close-set eyes, he was lifting his ancient chant again. The Red One His nasty, close-set eyes gleamed hatred from beneath his shaggy brows, while his great canine fangs were bared in a horrid snarl as he paused a moment before his prey. Tarzan of the Apes His small, blue, close-set eyes never met hers squarely. Beasts of Tarzan Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance. Return of Tarzan They were not pretty to look upon with their close-set eyes, flat noses, long upper lips and protruding yellow fangs. The People That Time Forgot The colour between the velvet of her close-set lashes—the remembrance of her curious splendid blush—made the man's lost and unlived youth come back to him. The Shuttle Of the other two one is a small tree, crooked and moss-grown, holding out its leaves to catch the light that filters down through the close-set spires of the great spruces. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Deep in his memory was implanted those repulsive features—the close-set eyes, the shifty expression, the drooping yellow moustache. Beasts of Tarzan A pavilion, gold topped, wreathed with lush jessamine, beckoned with a special significance over close-set shrubs. The Golden Age The abbé's fierce, close-set eyes gleamed with approval, and he accosted the old man in a cordial voice. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage In other words, dearie," finished Miss Kirk, her rather close-set eyes focusing upon the tip of Lilly's nose, "I think you're fired. Star-Dust If it had not been for the dog she could have slipped under the close-set trees, whence the light had already departed, and lain close among the fern. The Case of Richard Meynell In the rear, a small garden is protected from the uncultivated life of the hillside by a fence of close-set pickets. Helen of the Old House She was smiling—a little hard smile with close-set lips, showing the world a face that meant to take life open-eyed, as it is, and make the best of it. Roden's Corner It was surrounded by a close-set row of stately trees within the encompassing wall. Casanova's Homecoming The young Englishman, his clean-cut face composed to wooden immobility, his too- close-set eyes squinting watchfully, came in as though on a social call. The Gray Dawn Nothing in the shape of a garden is to be seen, only dull walls of close-set dwellings, with narrow paths between. The Roof of France His face was lean and saturnine, and there was something sinister in the dark, close-set eyes under a single, heavy line of eyebrow. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Next to your lordly wall, in dignity of enclosure, comes your close-set wooden paling, which is more objectionable, because it commonly means enclosure on a larger scale than people want. The Two Paths When he smiled, and he smiled often without laughing, as it were smiling to himself, his thick lips parted unpleasantly and displayed a row of close-set, brilliant teeth. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories Physically well-made, he was dark of skin, with dark, curly hair, thick lips, and close-set Eastern eyes. The Tragedies of the Medici When Miss Wimple began to speak, she stood somewhat off from the bed; for Madeline, with a gesture full of hate, and close-set lips that looked dangerous, had thrust her back. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 Her head was bent and the earl noticed, for the thousandth time, how the hair clustered in her neck and framed the little, close-set ear. The Turquoise Cup, and, the Desert Yet her dainty, close-set ears looked as though they were listening. The Green Mouse From it a pair of close-set, shallow brown eyes looked shiftily. The Everlasting Whisper Then the door opened again to admit a short, heavy-set man, with florid face, stubbly black moustache, and little, close-set eyes, preternaturally bright. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story His delicate features and thin nose contrasted strangely to the high cheek-bones, small, close-set eyes, and wide, flat nostrils of his antagonist. The Unwilling Vestal The road's high, close-set wall of trees was broken for the first time by a little clearing. The Perils of Pauline The trooper who had spoken was a bullet-headed Castilian, with square jaw and close-set eyes. In Kedar's Tents His head was thrown back so that I could see his face distinctly a fleshy face with small, close-set eyes and thick lips, behind which I caught the gleam of big, white teeth. The Broad Highway Beneath one's feet amidst the close-set stalks one could feel that the damp soil reeked and bubbled with sap. The Fortune of the Rougons Long Sin was now going over the walls of the cavern minutely, his close-set, beady black eyes examining every square inch of it. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" He watched Charlotte Corday earnestly, and Juliette who watched him saw the look of measureless pity, which softened the otherwise hard look of his close-set eyes. I Will Repay Another new-comer attracted even more notice than the limb of the law; a gigantic, well-groomed man, with keen, close-set eyes, and that indefinable easy movement and polished bearing that come from confidence, health, and travel. The Spoilers The artist who fashioned it had gratified a morbid taste by imparting to the eyeless sockets and close-set rows of teeth a malign and threatening grin. Number Seventeen Nothing could have been more becoming to the exquisite bloom of the young face than the soft, clear folds of filmy veiling; under the small, close-set hat there showed a ripple of rich golden hair. The Heart of Rachael In an old civilization men grow like trees in a close-set forest. California and the Californians And all the way to Mayfair he leaned back in his seat, with close-set lips, never uttering a syllable. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay There is always a dim mystery about a close-set wood showing its front across the fields. The Upton Letters Just as wet starch contracts on drying to prismatic forms, so lava often contracts on cooling to a mass of close-set, prismatic, and commonly six-sided columns, which stand at right angles to the cooling surface. The Elements of Geology The three stood in a close-set clump of four or five scrub oaks at the highest point of a thinly wooded knoll that sloped down in all directions to the prairie. Alice of Old Vincennes Only his eyes, his close-set eyes, were unchanged. Arsene Lupin The moonlight was fainter here, obscured by the close-set buildings, and at the moment there was not an Arab in sight. The Garden of Allah On the other hand, those males, now nowhere to be found, are plentiful later, in September, along the borders of the paths, on the close-set flowers of the eringo. Bramble-Bees and Others The glade in which it was pitched was not many yards wide, the tall, close-set pines and firs rising round it like a wall. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches After supper the men gather together about the chiefs, sitting in close-set ranks on and before the dais. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The man was a vicious-looking creature, dressed in the rough garb of the mountaineer; dirty and unkempt, with evil, close-set eyes, and a scraggly beard that could not hide the wicked, snarling mouth. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent These erections were in their turn backed by ivy-covered ice-houses, laundries, and stables, the whole mass of subsidiary buildings being half buried beneath close-set shrubs and trees. Desperate Remedies The monotonous strokes of an axe were suddenly pretermitted, and somewhere from the depths of the close-set pines a voice answered "Flip." Flip, a California romance Nor did the resemblance cease there; the close-set files of the pines and cedars, stretching in illimitable ranks to the horizon, were filled with the immeasurable loneliness of an ocean shore. Colonel Starbottle's Client The finest lashing-work is done by the Kalabits, who cover small bamboo boxes with a layer of close-set lashing, producing pleasing geometrical designs by the combination of yellow and black threads. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Another stretch through the close-set ranks of pines, another dash through the opening, another whirl and rattle by overhanging rocks, and the vehicle was swiftly descending. Jeff Briggs's Love Story On every side rose up the serried ranks of pine-trees, in whose close-set files centuries of storm and change had wrought no breach. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories He was an old man with close-set, cunning eyes and a cruel, thin-lipped mouth. Tarzan the Terrible Round about this tree Ulysses built the chamber, and finished it with close-set stones, and roofed it over, and made close-fastening doors. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities His face was turned to Trent, white and a little scared, but his lips were close-set and he uttered no sound. A Millionaire of Yesterday I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. Jane Eyre Its eyes are small and close-set, and almost hidden in deep, fleshy apertures. The Chessmen of Mars Oh! but it was a dull-faced MS., each line resembling every other line in their close-set and regular order. Within the Tides |
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