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She was sallow, wrinkled, pinched; her nose ran to a sharp point, and her red-rimmed eyes were a queer water-grey, that seemed to shrink alike from the light and from encounter with the eyes of others.
The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905
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Her bright water-grey eyes were alight with mutiny; she laughed defiantly.
Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
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He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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