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  • Maybe she caught my exhaustion and frustration, maybe she liked the cut of my True Religion jeans, maybe she was a racist and was giving me points for being light-eyed and white.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Maybe she caught my exhaustion and frustration, maybe she liked the cut of my True Religion jeans, maybe she was a racist and was giving me points for being light-eyed and white.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • The light-eyed, round-headed Scott Panzer flew the coop this month, migrating from brokerage Newmark Knight Frank to what he describes as the fairer environs of rival firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

    Poached! Panzer and Co. Jump from Newmark to Jones Lang 2009

  • He too preferred golden-haired, light-eyed lovers; what pleased him in his wife were her noble ancestry and her fortune.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Josie used to think, when she was younger, that she would grow up to look like her mother—fine-boned, dark-haired, light-eyed.

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • Josie used to think, when she was younger, that she would grow up to look like her mother-fine-boned, dark-haired, light-eyed.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • He too preferred golden-haired, light-eyed lovers; what pleased him in his wife were her noble ancestry and her fortune.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Josie used to think, when she was younger, that she would grow up to look like her mother—fine-boned, dark-haired, light-eyed.

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • But they were Aryans like us, light-eyed and tall and blond.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • I don't think we want to take a light-eyed approach and say, look, let's just forget all medical science.

    CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2005 2005

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