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  • Years later he would see that same eye-light in Lisa Ko time and time again and would always wonder at it, wonder at how it seemed to seep from a distant, ancient, exclusively feminine place.

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • Love she thought it; but the eye-light of love and lust are twin lights between which it takes much worldly wisdom to differentiate, and Barbara

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • ` ` She measures her words, '' he said, as to himself; ` ` her very eye-light is ruled by decorum; she is a machine, for work.

    Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day 1862

  • "She measures her words," he said, as to himself; "her very eye-light is ruled by decorum; she is a machine, for work.

    Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870

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