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  • A gleam appeared in Mr. Polsen's deepset eyes but he only said.

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • A deepset craving for a return to an era of grace and gentility, in an age where good manners have largely gone by the wayside?

    Motivations for Writing Historical Fiction Julianne Douglas 2008

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • "We say outright: these are madmen, yet these madmen have their own logic, their teaching, their code, their God even, and it's as deepset as could be." —

    The Truth About Jihad Rodenbeck, Max 2005

  • There was a degree of caution in his deepset eyes as he scanned her pale, indignant face.

    The Carides Pregnancy Lawrence, Kim 2005

  • Early pictures of James show a slight, trim, neatly handsome man with deepset eyes and a firm chin, but Kako knew him as a bent old Robinson Crusoe, distinctly overweight, with a white beard and a stick, with gnarled feet and the money to do any wild, delightful thing that occurred to him, who lived in this house and talked of the grand, thrilling world outside.

    Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000

  • Early pictures of James show a slight, trim, neatly handsome man with deepset eyes and a firm chin, but Kako knew him as a bent old Robinson Crusoe, distinctly overweight, with a white beard and a stick, with gnarled feet and the money to do any wild, delightful thing that occurred to him, who lived in this house and talked of the grand, thrilling world outside.

    Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000

  • Early pictures of James show a slight, trim, neatly handsome man with deepset eyes and a firm chin, but Kako knew him as a bent old Robinson Crusoe, distinctly overweight, with a white beard and a stick, with gnarled feet and the money to do any wild, delightful thing that occurred to him, who lived in this house and talked of the grand, thrilling world outside.

    Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000

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