deep-sunk

Seventeen years old he was, as men measure time; but a century was measured in his lean - lined face, his wrinkled forehead, his hollowed temples, and his deep-sunk eyes.

CHAPTER III 2010

Too deep-sunk was he to dream of escape or feel the prod of desire to escape.

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

So deep-sunk was he in the social abyss that a proper hobo would not sit by the same fire with him.

THE PRINCESS 2010

{1} But oh, my friends, think you our guides, our native attendants, deep-sunk in heathenism, were affected by such a scene?

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

Like the refugees and renegades who slunk away in the salt marshes of the Adriatic and builded the palaces of powerful Venice on her deep-sunk piles, so these wretched hunted blacks builded power until they became masters of the mainland, controlling traffic and trade-routes, compelling the bushmen for ever after to remain in the bush and never to dare attempt the salt-water.

CHAPTER X 2010

With his impressive height and those broad, flat cheekbones, I could easily imagine him in command of a dragon ship, deep-sunk eyes gleaming with avarice and lust as he peered through the fog at some rocky coastal village.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

The new house, with its charming French windows on the ground floor, its heavy bands of stone flowers and deep-sunk florated door, was soon crowded with a moving, colorful flow of people.

The Titan 2004

She lay still, feeling his motion within her, his deep-sunk intentness, the sudden quiver of him at the springing of his seed, then the slow-subsiding thrust.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

She went to the bedside to look at Gerbert, deep-sunk in drugged sleep.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

And he lay staring from deep-sunk eyes into the darkness where the unaccountable held sway.

Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004