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  • Triste and Rienne also offered their thanks—solemn-eyed and sober, of course.

    Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008

  • Triste and Rienne also offered their thanks—solemn-eyed and sober, of course.

    Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008

  • Triste and Rienne also offered their thanks—solemn-eyed and sober, of course.

    Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008

  • Triste and Rienne also offered their thanks—solemn-eyed and sober, of course.

    Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008

  • She circled his navel with the tip of her tongue and then lifted her head to look, solemn-eyed, where the neat line of dark hair started to thicken.

    Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006

  • All of this ran through her mind while the child sat there, solemn-eyed, watching her.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • I retrieved my shoes and walked the two blocks back to my car, losing myself in the noontime crowds of Chinatown, men in suits, mothers pulling tiny, solemn-eyed children, teenagers in school uniforms, all of us skirting puddles of oily black water and piles of shattered car window glass.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • I retrieved my shoes and walked the two blocks back to my car, losing myself in the noontime crowds of Chinatown, men in suits, mothers pulling tiny, solemn-eyed children, teenagers in school uniforms, all of us skirting puddles of oily black water and piles of shattered car window glass.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • New Bridge to bring back 7-year-old Shadya, a solemn-eyed girl in white dress and puffy white hair-bow.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • He focused his mind on the hateful Moonbase renegades even as his eyes looked out on a sea of dark, solemn-eyed faces.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

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