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  • The heavy-browed 40-foot long Eocarcharia dinops, or "fierce-eyed dawn shark," was likely the main predator as its powerful claws and teeth could tear limbs and flesh off its prey.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Al – Yamamah was noted for them; and “blue eyed” often means “fierce-eyed,” alluding to the Greeks and

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The other one is identified as the Eocarcharia dinops which translates into “fierce-eyed dawn shark.”

    Two New Species of Carnivorous Dinosaurs Identified 2008

  • The black bull was grazing alone away from the rest, but fierce-eyed hounds followed the cows, four of them, all of one mind, like men.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • In 1881, the “Grand Old Man” was seventy years old, a straight-backed, fierce-eyed prophet whose iron chin jutted over the high wing collar of a passing generation.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In 1881, the “Grand Old Man” was seventy years old, a straight-backed, fierce-eyed prophet whose iron chin jutted over the high wing collar of a passing generation.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In 1881, the “Grand Old Man” was seventy years old, a straight-backed, fierce-eyed prophet whose iron chin jutted over the high wing collar of a passing generation.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • As the young reeve walked off, Anji, rather like the fierce-eyed eagles, watched him go.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • The first was lean, fierce-eyed and battle-hardened.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • With such speech amid springing tears Aeneas would soothe the wrath of the fiery, fierce-eyed queen She, turning away, kept her looks fixed on the ground and no more changes her countenance as he essays to speak than if she were set in hard flint or Marpesian rock.

    Selections from the _Aeneid_ 2002

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