dark-eyed

English

Adjective

dark-eyed (comparative more dark-eyed or darker-eyed, superlative most dark-eyed or darkest-eyed)

  1. Having dark eyes.
    • 1983, Elsa Lanchester, chapter 3, in Elsa Lanchester, Herself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 29:
      The dark-haired, darker-eyed Fraulein sat more or less alone in her schoolroom, giving guttural orders that we all found very funny.
    • 2015, Helena Coggan, chapter 6, in The Catalyst, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 70–71:
      He was a Demon: the darkest-eyed, most dangerous type of Ashkind, historically the most violent and insidious and prone to political dissent, who had to be watched by the Department very carefully lest they rebel against the Government.
    • 2017, Graham Hancock, “Friday 27 May 1520–Saturday 28 May 1520”, in Night of Sorrows (War God; 3), London: Coronet, →ISBN, page 293:
      He smiled, remembering the morning when Esteban and Gregorio, two of his darkest-eyed, blackest-haired and most sunburnt men, had come to him with a daring plan that he’d immediately sanctioned.

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