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  • Those crowsfeet and silver strands are a passport to getting away with murder.

    How did I get here? 2008

  • Lately, Hillary has been looking really aged and the lines on her forehead, crowsfeet, and the lines on her cheeks have become prominent.

    The price of hair and makeup 2008

  • I'd like to think that experience and enthusiasm and intelligence and a whole lot of wanting to make sure we're both having fun counts for a lot more than the fact that I'm picking up a few crowsfeet around my eyes.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2003

  • He distinctly saw the crowsfeet round her eyes, the wrinkles round her mouth, and the swollen eyelids.

    Resurrection 2003

  • Her partner was a large man, balding, gray-haired, a little too heavy, with deep crowsfeet at the corners of his eyes.

    The Night Crew Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1997

  • Around his eyes, over the years, has grown a ruinous system of burst capillaries, shadows, folds, crowsfeet, a ground that by now has gathered in the simple, direct eyes of his younger and poorer days ... no.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The ready pucker of the crowsfeet about those kind eyes put him quickly at ease, and as they sat on the "back piazza" that overlooked an old-fashioned flower garden they were chatting like a pair of old acquaintances.

    Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

  • The freshness of her disposition has vanished with the freshness of her complexion; hard lines are perceptible in her very soul, and crowsfeet contract her very fancy.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 Various

  • The stamp of cruel want convulsed each hopeless face, and crowsfeet lines of despair lay as a delta beneath each fishy eye.

    The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

  • Not so Larkyns, who is the same sprightly, merry fellow as of old, albeit his hair is streaked with grey, and the crowsfeet winkle in the corners of his eyes when he laughs, as he is ever doing.

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

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