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At some point Mike Skinner – the most important British act of the last decade – went from lager-soaked teller of nightclub tale to a sweet-eyed, hungover-looking Nassim Nicholas Tassib-like pop epistemologist.
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On the chair, sweet-eyed and honest, she was a child.
A Young Wife's Worldview Michael Wayne Hampton 2012
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From the deck I watched the sun set in silence, as sweet-eyed harbor seals bobbed their heads by the weir.
Lea Lane: The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff 2009
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From the deck I watched the sun set in silence, as sweet-eyed harbor seals bobbed their heads by the weir.
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Mark Cohen's "True Color" (powerHouse, 112 pages, $45) is a sweet-eyed, close-up report from the middle-class streets of his home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Season's Readings 2007
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You are not a fitting spectacle for such sweet-eyed darlings.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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Denying it! sweet-eyed, eager old lady, she led them to the gallery, and made them look at that all-convincing portrait of her son, over which unconscious Inna had dreamt so often, longing for her mother, she scarcely knew why, while it was her father's face spoke to her mystified little heart.
The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield
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And some fresh, sweet-eyed pansies she'd put in --
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Aunt Alice, so patient-faced and pretty and sweet-eyed in her neat poverty -- greeted me with a warm kiss.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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From such disquieting reflections I would turn my mind to sweet-eyed
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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