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This slender, serious-eyed girl might have been twenty-five.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

Now they cleared out half the casino and Red has me over in a corner, my own table, waitress, dealer, a serious-eyed Asian girl with hair down her back like poured molasses, shiny and black.

Two Days Vegas 2010

Half an hour later your little brother will come to you with a plate of food, and he will sit there, serious-eyed, as you eat it.

The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

They were all out there in the yard: serious-eyed Katherine home from the University for spring vacation, lovely eighteen-year-old Marcia, merry sixteen-year-old Eleanor, and troublesome, lovable twelve-year-old Junior.

Mother's Excitement Over Father's Old Sweetheart 1919

"Is there not any saint of the kitchen, at all?" asked the serious-eyed little demoiselle sorting herbs under the pear-tree.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

The child she had learned to love had vanished somehow and here was this tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen, with the thoughtful brows and the proudly poised little head, in her place.

Anne of Green Gables 1908

If any one had told Geoffrey Fox a few weeks before that he would be content to spend his time as he was spending it now, writing all day and reading the chapters at night to a serious-eyed little school-teacher who scolded him and encouraged him by turns, he would have scoffed at such an impossible prospect.

Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

He is a serious-eyed boy who doesn't seem to enjoy life very much, but he is a hard worker and makes a good deal of money out of the sales of his papers.

Idle Comments 1905

She was a serious-eyed young woman of a sincere manner; she spoke with certainty of tone.

Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

In his wanderings about New York theaters Charles saw a serious-eyed young actress named Minnie Maddern.

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Daniel Frohman 1895