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Its sunken eyes and protruding jaw give its face the look of a terrifying human skull that contrasts with its soulful baby-blue eyes.
The symptoms are sunken, straw-colored spots about the size of a quarter to a silver dollar.
The two water jumps, the coffin at number 6, and the sunken road caused the majority of the problems.
The road surface had worn smooth and in places there were sunken tyres tracks that caused vehicles to shudder when they pass over them.
He even turned his hand to inventing, designing, among other things, a device for raising sunken vessels and a smoke helmet for firemen.
The sunken wet bar was stocked with 20-year old Italian red wines and expensive cognacs, brandies and Scotch whiskeys.
The resultant form is bold and distinctive and is further modelled by a re-entrant corner cutout, set directly above the sunken entrance court.
Ferns generally lack some of the more typical adaptations of xerophytes, such as a thick hypodermis, sunken stomata, and CAM photosynthesis.
On a more populist level, sunken living rooms are reinvading suburbia as Americans ditch large open spaces for rooms with more intimacy.
We carry boxes along a dark, narrow corridor, that has steps up at either end, meaning that it is sunken.
Then I catch glimpses of a diver two feet in front of me tying a huge yellow floatation bag onto a sunken landing craft.
On the landside of the main room, where people pass from front door to bedroom corridor, are more sliding doors opening into a sunken court.
Then before reseating the connections, examine the male ends, and look for bent or sunken pins.
Salvage and rescue workers who were rushed to the scene said one of the sunken acid containers was slowly leaking into the river.
The Confederates launched a single counterattack aimed at retaking the sunken road, but failed to dislodge the Union.
It is usually sunken into a depression so that the rim is level with the ground.
Appearing in other worldly guise, she had a hooked nose with rheumy cold, had cheeks sunken and walked lame.
The 20 acres of grounds include a sun terrace, fruit garden and sunken rock garden, as well as a lakeside summer house and marina.
The park's gardens include a sunken garden, a rock garden, stream gardens and an Arboretum, containing many trees from the southern hemisphere.
The Royal Navy will attempt to stem the flow of oil from the sunken Royal Oak battleship by carrying out tests on a replica of the vessel.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is profound collapse, the features are sunken, the skin moist and cyanosed.
His head is asymmetrical, and is full at the occiput, slightly sunken at the bregma, and the forehead is low.
The sunken orbits of the fat man turned from one to another, his jowly cheeks flapping.
Then, by twisting his pinchers round and round, he would try to attach the hose to the sunken submarine.
This chapel was one of the most sunken and dark of the old Romanesque apse.
But now he saw that what he had mistaken for a waterlogged sunken hulk was indeed an under-sea boat, a submarine and a big one.
What means had we to take soundings, or to measure the gap between the sunken Fukui and the Yoneyama?
I have been busy with the sunken packet all day and hav'nt had time to get to prayer.
There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.
He was a meagre little fellow, with a long neck and a white face and sunken cheeks, a pigeon breast, and a big stomach.
He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth.
Now, she was sunken in an apathy that saved her from the worst pangs of misery.
His cheeks were sunken, and the eyes, though bright, were disfigured by ophthalmia.
I saw a frail little man with a long, yellow face and sunken fanatical eyes, an Inquisitor, an unfrocked monk.
Andrew, 48, says the hidden sunken gully on Greave House at Lepton was caused by unrepaired subsidence.
An old woman it was who looked at her through faded blue eyes, sunken deep in a wrinkled and toothless face.
Deacon Ira had been tall and gaunt and sunken and uncommunicative.
His sunken eyes glittered and his wrinkled lips moved over toothless gums as he mumbled weird incantations to the demons of his cult.
Set in these wrinkles was a sunken slit, that represented the mouth, beneath which the chin curved outwards to a point.
The luxury accommodation features four-poster v sl beds, sunken baths and waterfall showers.
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