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Deep-set   /dip-sɛt/   Listen
adjective
deep-set  adj.  Having a sunken area.
Synonyms: sunken, recessed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Deep-set" Quotes from Famous Books



... Harrington turned upon her as he answered. His calm, deep-set gray eyes gazed steadily at her, and his square features assumed an air of ...
— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... not move. He stood looking down upon the poor woman before him, a world of pity expressed in his deep-set eyes. Through the absolute silence around there came the sound as of a gentle flutter, the current of cold air, mayhap, sighing through the ill-fitting shutters, or the soft, weird soughing made by unseen things. ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... Norman's now deep-set eyes gleamed humorously in his haggard and failed-looking face. "In difficulties? Not at all. I'm under them—drowned ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips

... found himself sitting to eat in the presence of the "German Alexander"—that great and puissant Prince, Prince Karl Albert, the War Lord, the hero of two hemispheres. He was a handsome, blond man, with deep-set eyes, a snub nose, upturned moustache, and long white hands, a strange-looking man. He sat higher than the others, under a black eagle with widespread wings and the German Imperial flags; he was, as it were, enthroned, ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... the hall, paced up and down; He paused as I passed by; His forehead stern relaxed its frown: He raised his deep-set eye. ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell


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