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  • “And then, look out,” Dee said, and her sloe-black eyes flashed.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • “And then, look out,” Dee said, and her sloe-black eyes flashed.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • A wild-looking woman with sloe-black eyes and dishevelled black hair sat upon the steps of one of the houses nursing a baby, but at the sight of Bert she got up and went inside, and he heard her bolting the door.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • All white bosoms, floating draperies, and slanting invitation in their sloe-black eyes.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • All white bosoms, floating draperies, and slanting invitation in their sloe-black eyes.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Tall and gaunt, she bore her years well, and her small, sloe-black eyes glowered at him.

    The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

  • Masses of sloe-black hair waved beneath the broad brim of her sombrero, but her skin was unbelievably fair and the eyes she lifted to his in frank scrutiny were the deep blue of a wood violet.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • He disliked this little dark, round-faced man, with his shifty sloe-black eyes and his trembling lips and fingers.

    The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938

  • At close range Beasley seemed a forceful personality as well as a rather handsome man of perhaps thirty-five, heavy of build, swarthy of skin, and sloe-black of eye, like that of the Mexicans whose blood was reported to be in him.

    The Man of the Forest 1919

  • Her lips were as red as poppies, full, voluptuous; her eyes were sloe-black and as soft as a cow's.

    Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

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