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  • The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Straightening with a snap, his right arm uncoiled with the precision of a cracking whip, and the dagger that he had drawn from his boot sank beyond the hilt in a slit-pupiled eye.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009

  • They had lidless slit-pupiled eyes, gaping nostril pits, outsize lipless jaws rimmed with yellow vomerine fangs.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009

  • The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled.

    City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Behind both of the glass windows within blinked a living eye, dark and handsome as Tom Riddle's eyes had been before he turned them scarlet and slit-pupiled

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Casting a slit-pupiled eye in the boy's direction, Khiindi raised a leg and proceeded to clean himself under his tail.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • Giant lids drew back from slit-pupiled eyes, filled with gold and black striations.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • This time Ilna saw not only the slit-pupiled eye but also the pearly shell and a dozen of the ammonite's waving tentacles.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Tenoctris stared into one of the great slit-pupiled eyes behind the forest of twenty or more tentacles.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • The vision in the air over the map showed a pair of yellow, slit-pupiled eyes sticking out of murky water.

    The Realms of the Gods Tamora Pierce 1996

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