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  • The Romans, of course, excelled at memorial portraits, sculpting heads uncannily like people we still encounter on present-day Italian streets and, in the further reaches of the Empire, painting those astonishing, liquid-eyed face-panels for Roman-era Egyptian mummies.

    From Out of a Featureless Crowd Karen Wilkin 2012

  • During the Cuban missile crisis he writes: I feel such a curiously strong loathing of Castro – something to do with his beard, his sincere, liquid-eyed beard.

    The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two, 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood – review Ian Sansom 2010

  • The liquid-eyed pretty-boy supporting actor of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Lord of the Rings" has been dating the Australian lingerie model for nearly three years.

    Love, etc.: Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr to tie the knot. 2010

  •   The display reminded me of a documentary I'd seen about a shrine in Japan stocked with ceramic cats with their paws raised — entreating, liquid-eyed cats — and supplicants would bring offerings of tuna and pray to Buddha for mercy on the souls of their lost pets.

    My Date With Satan 2010

  • Greer pivoted to face Andrew, only to find him comfortably slouched against the side of an animal pen scratching the ears of a liquid-eyed calf.

    Moontide Cameron, Stella 1985

  • The effect was astounding: the man uttered an ejaculation, crossed himself, mounted his box and drove off; the beggars shrank away, stood aloof and exchanged awestruck whispers; only a few liquid-eyed little ragamuffins continued to turn somersets and stand on their heads undismayed.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

  • There are the long-horned, grey-flanked, dark-muzzled, liquid-eyed cattle, grazing under the peaceful skies of the Campagna or enjoying in the meadow their holiday freedom from the plow; the same cattle that Carducci sings --

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • She flashed a glance at him, liquid-eyed, appealing.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • Long-haired, liquid-eyed, still with a beard symmetrically pointed and a mustache carefully cropped, he was more than ever like a young girl's idea of an artist.

    Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • The liquid-eyed rascal with the priceless amber necklace then led away the escort, Ahmed included, to some place where they could stall the horses, and -- side-by-side, lest any question of precedence should be involved, Anazeh and I followed ben Nazir into the house.

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

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