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  • Get out of there this minute, you fool, and go open the car door, she said, mean-voiced, mean-eyed, continuing on to the parking lot.

    THE ORCHID marci stillerman 2010

  • "I'm going to tell you too much now," he said, then signaled the mean-eyed waitress and ordered two Polar Bear sandwiches and one garlic fry plate, said we can share.

    Tenders 2010

  • At an auction in the plaza, he purchased a “Genuine Mexican Plug” for twenty-seven dollars the only bid and attempted to mount and ride the black, mean-eyed animal, which “had as many humps and corners on him as a dromedary.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • It was easy to spot Dracula; he was big, black, mean-eyed, drooling foam, punching dirt with his ragged front hooves, kicking at the pen fence with his hind legs.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • At an auction in the plaza, he purchased a “Genuine Mexican Plug” for twenty-seven dollars the only bid and attempted to mount and ride the black, mean-eyed animal, which “had as many humps and corners on him as a dromedary.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • When I look at some of the mean-eyed, slack-jawed, often unhealthily obese participants in the anti (fill in blank, but currently "health care") rallies -- many exhibiting semi-literate, misinformed, even misspelled, hate-filled signs and T shirt slogans -- I feel that we are failing on both counts.

    first, do no harm 2009

  • When I look at some of the mean-eyed, slack-jawed, often unhealthily obese participants in the anti (fill in blank, but currently "health care") rallies -- many exhibiting semi-literate, misinformed, even misspelled, hate-filled signs and T shirt slogans -- I feel that we are failing on both counts.

    time to make crullers 2009

  • It was easy to spot Dracula; he was big, black, mean-eyed, drooling foam, punching dirt with his ragged front hooves, kicking at the pen fence with his hind legs.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • If Dobrynin failed to carry out his orders precisely as they were written, he would be relieved of his command and Strelbitski would take his place, and there was no doubt at all that that mean-eyed, thin-lipped reptile would carry out the orders ... and even enjoy doing so.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • He turned a face of mean-eyed fury in my direction and easily transferred his hatred.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

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