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Examples

  • "That's an arcane law, Senator," she said, batting her eyes underneath her downswept Madison Ave. 'do.

    Jodi Lampert: Elena Kagan: Plessy vs. Seventeen Magazine 2010

  • "That's an arcane law, Senator," she said, batting her eyes underneath her downswept Madison Ave. 'do.

    Jodi Lampert: Elena Kagan: Plessy vs. Seventeen Magazine Jodi Lampert 2010

  • It's the downswept "wings" that make the difference.

    ianrandalstrock: Maybe it's a Romulan warbird ianrandalstrock 2010

  • I'd lightly touch my carry-on, glance up from downswept eyes, and men would scurry.

    Jodi Lampert: Short Like Me, Or, Thanks a Lot, Michelle! 2009

  • Fitch felt rooted to that spot as he held the magnificent weapon, letting his fingers glide over the wire-wound hilt, the downswept cross guard, the finely wrought gold and silver scabbard.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • If she could no longer use her eyes for impression, she still knew the effect of downswept lashes.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • He studied the details he knew so well: the polished blade with the fuller down its length, the aggressive, downswept crossguards, the hilt covered in fine, twisted silver wire with twisted gold wire woven through it forming the raised letters of the word Truth.

    Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

  • Anything, my lord, "she added with downswept lashes," that you may wish him to say or do, that is. "

    The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

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