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  • They had a prisoner, a ferret-eyed, dapper youth who looked out at them and at his jailers with assumed jauntiness.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2010

  • We pass the "cattymount," and presently come to a table at which a young and handsome "pilgrim," and a ferret-eyed sharp are engaged at cards.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

  • The only man I saw who seemed to have anything like a balanced mind was the financial shark, a little ferret-eyed, onery-looking cuss whom I wouldn't have trusted out of my sight.

    Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Thorne Smith 1913

  • He had a big head and a keen, ferret-eyed face, and just now was looking round the end of his sofa at the visitors.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • "We've lost so much lately," a small ferret-eyed man was saying,

    Constance Dunlap 1908

  • When he stepped back and closed the door, there stood beside him another man, clean-shaven, lean, sharp-nosed and ferret-eyed, whose footstep was almost as light as that of the Swami himself.

    Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

  • She was a ferret-eyed, blond-haired, spindle-legged little creature whose mind was a cross between that of a parrot and a sheep.

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

  • Duty and inclination thus happily wedded, Pringle set himself to goad ferret-eyed Creagan and the heavy-jawed sheriff into unwise speech.

    The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

  • And the ferret-eyed little man there noted the fact, bitterly resented it, and vented his ill-humor accordingly.

    Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • Badmayev, a small, ferret-eyed man, his features of Tartar cast, came and dined with us, after which Rasputin signed a cheque for twenty-eight thousand roubles, a sum to which "the doctor" was entitled under an agreement.

    The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia William Le Queux 1895

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