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  • An impression borne out by a pair of wide-apart and very deep-set green eyes.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • An impression borne out by a pair of wide-apart and very deep-set green eyes.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • He had indeed been a corpulent fellow with curious wide-apart eyes and a dimpled chin of such prominence that he resembled a Hapsburg.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • He had indeed been a corpulent fellow with curious wide-apart eyes and a dimpled chin of such prominence that he resembled a Hapsburg.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • He held up a photograph of a blonde woman, with wide-apart brown eyes.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • This treasured possession of his life was of medium height and color, with short, dark-chestnut hair; her wide-apart brown eyes were set in whites so clear that they glinted when they moved, and yet in repose were almost dreamy under very white, black-lashed lids, held over them in a sort of suspense.

    To Let 2004

  • He held up a photograph of a blonde woman, with wide-apart brown eyes.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • There trailed another rickety fence, long split poles joining the short, thick, wide-apart uprights.

    The Fox 2003

  • Gen approached with wide-apart legs, his bamboo sword held high over his head with both hands.

    December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

  • As he stared down, her head came up and he was fixed in the gaze of those wide-apart green eyes.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

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