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  • Huge wideset brown eyes look up enquiringly, reticent, yet choosing to trust.

    Georgia Peach - Chapter 2 Susan 2009

  • How do you know what is considered wideset or close, heart-shaped or diamond, full or thin?

    Archive 2007-06-01 kittenpie 2007

  • How do you know what is considered wideset or close, heart-shaped or diamond, full or thin?

    Making It Up kittenpie 2007

  • But his head, though bigger than average, is light; the wide brow and the wideset eyes that looked estranged from one another, the shallow-U chin that scintillates grey in the sunlight, the global curve of his cranium, all this is built upon a skull made of sinus-bone and aluminium.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • But his head, though bigger than average, is light; the wide brow and the wideset eyes that looked estranged from one another, the shallow-U chin that scintillates grey in the sunlight, the global curve of his cranium, all this is built upon a skull made of sinus-bone and aluminium.

    Impatience Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Their pale, wideset eyes followed the pod as it came up through the open doorway into an unexpectedly large chamber.

    Starfleet Year One Michael Jan Friedman 2002

  • The sergeant major brought up his horse, a Morgan with wideset eyes, and the lieutenant swung up into the split-wood saddle as though his body had no weight.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • The sergeant major brought up his horse, a Morgan with wideset eyes, and the lieutenant swung up into the split-wood saddle as though his body had no weight.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • The sergeant major brought up his horse, a Morgan with wideset eyes, and the lieutenant swung up into the split-wood saddle as though his body had no weight.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • Both had blue eyes, Dunross's slightly more greenish, both wideset in lived-in faces.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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