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  • My green- and gold-eyed doll with a voice so marvelous

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • The driver gave Casimir a wild, gold-eyed stare, but obeyed.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • She struck again, and a shower of gold-eyed sparks went volleying up the chimney.

    The Years 2004

  • The gold-eyed birds darting in between the leaves observed that purulence, that wetness, quizzically.

    The Waves 2003

  • The schoolroom was a desert, arid and unsatisfying; whereas the garden, the enclosed space which held stained cups of beauty and purple gold-eyed bells, that was

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • The hay that so short a time ago was long, lush grass, with fragrant meadow-sweet and gold-eyed marguerites growing amongst it in the green meadow-land by the river, is now dry hay -- fragrant still, though dead, and hidden from the sun's warm rays underneath the dark wooden rafters of the barn.

    A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

  • There in the topmost chamber a gold-eyed lamp was lit --

    Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Various 1912

  • I was visiting one day when one large and one small needle were all there were in the house; if they had been made entirely of gold, instead of "gold-eyed" only, they could not have been more cherished.

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • Uncle Jim in the voice of one astonished and pained beyond endurance, and added scornfully: "You gold-eyed Geezer, you!"

    The History of Mr. Polly 1906

  • The rude temporary benches were spread with splendid covers of purple and green, upon which silver lilies and gold-eyed peacocks had been wrought with exquisite skill.

    The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893

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