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  • He saw a man his own age, square-headed with a neat crop of short gray hair, steady-eyed, stocky where Bob was lanky.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He saw a man his own age, square-headed with a neat crop of short gray hair, steady-eyed, stocky where Bob was lanky.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He saw a man his own age, square-headed with a neat crop of short gray hair, steady-eyed, stocky where Bob was lanky.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Dressed in linen shorts, button down shirts and Top-Siders, we learned to drink under paper lanterns and made it with steady-eyed girls from The Dalton School, Spence and Choate.

    Jack Hannibal: Running on Clouds 2008

  • He was brown and lean and enduring, steady-eyed and pestilence-salted, and his mouth, which had once hung open, shut now like a steel trap.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Owl, somber-faced and steady-eyed as she listened, promised that his instructions would be carried out.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • Sriram stopped and raised his head to contemplate Arjun, suddenly steady-eyed and dispassionate.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • James Woodforde, then, was one of those smooth-cheeked, steady-eyed men, demure to look at, whom we can never imagine except in the prime of life.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • "Neither now nor ever," Ivan answered, steady-eyed.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • Huddled up on the bed, she was staring straight in front of her, steady-eyed.

    Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942

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