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  • Once again the tie snake fixes his slit-eyed gaze on mine.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The arrests come amid in a rising, if small, groundswell of controversy over Monday's start of an official ban of garments that hide the face, which includes Muslim veils such as the slit-eyed niqab and the full face-covering burqa.

    61 arrested over banned Paris Muslim veil protest 2011

  • Once again the tie snake fixes his slit-eyed gaze on mine.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The arrests come amid in a rising, if small, groundswell of controversy over Monday's start of an official ban of garments that hide the face, which includes Muslim veils such as the slit-eyed niqab and the full face-covering burqa.

    61 arrested over banned Paris Muslim veil protest 2011

  • She woke up slow and sleepy, and he loved the way she scooped her tangled curly black hair off her face, peering out slit-eyed, like a small, sweet mole blinking in the light.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • A slit-eyed, misshapen face, the beaten face of a boxer, stares back at him.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • I hopped from the cab, only to be confronted in my egress, as in my ingress, by the large slit-eyed servant of von Helrung.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • This was her first prolonged exposure to the standard American view of China as a land of dirty, scavenging beggars and sinister, slit-eyed, yellow-skinned villains.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • This was her first prolonged exposure to the standard American view of China as a land of dirty, scavenging beggars and sinister, slit-eyed, yellow-skinned villains.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • I hopped from the cab, only to be confronted in my egress, as in my ingress, by the large slit-eyed servant of von Helrung.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

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