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  • The photo showed a squat face under long Beatle-style hair, the eyes gleamless with a lack of intelligence or purpose.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • The photo showed a squat face under long Beatle-style hair, the eyes gleamless with a lack of intelligence or purpose.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • The photo showed a squat face under long Beatle-style hair, the eyes gleamless with a lack of intelligence or purpose.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • It was only the Vicomte who paused at intervals during his frugal meal, and looked across the table towards the young girl with those deep, impenetrable eyes -- shadowless, gleamless, like velvet.

    The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • Nor that some of those hands have held long gleamless knives to slowly and agonizingly behead "infidels" or pressed the trigger to detonate shrapnel-filled suicide belts to burn, eviscerate, and terrorize even greater numbers of innocents.

    American Thinker 2009

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