What is "close-set"

Usage examples of "close-set".

There was a family resemblancethe faceplate showed enough of the broad nose and heavy jaw, the bright close-set eyes.

She was thrown from side to side as the firedrake whipped his lithe body back and forth to zigzag between the close-set trees.

Scraggly black hair hung over his close-set eyes, while two enormous tusks reached upward from his underslung jaw almost to the edge of his snoutlike nose.

But its face, limned in the bright moonlight, was bestial, with close-set ears, flaring nostrils, and a great flabby-lipped mouth in which gleamed white tusklike fangs.

But here in the woods, among the close-set boles, the spreading of their wings proved their undoing--it hindered and stopped them and threw them to the ground, and then Bradley was upon them threatening them with instant death if they did not surrender-- promising them their freedom if they did his bidding.

They bent their heads with the pale fur and the close-set ears and the golden diadems that varied in size and splendor according to rank.

The smooth, familiar hickory made him feel more at home among these close-set buildings and a crowd as thick as fishflies in spring.

He was becomingly arrayed in a suit of dark brown camlet, with rows of close-set gold buttons running up his hanging sleeves.

The balconies there overlooked a sprawl of spired buildings, their close-set summits rising below the plaza.

The floor seemed to be made of the mid-ribs of some type of leaf, coconut palm, probably, laid across close-set joists, and there was no ceiling as such, just steep-angled rafters with thatch above.

Walking behind him, Adam could not take his eyes from the uncovered head, with its short, curled hair blowing back from close-set ears, and the beautiful subtleties of its modelling showing through the thick locks, as the slanting morning light touched every salient and the shadow clung in every hollow.

The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily.

They'd just reached the chaotic scene when another pair of men emerged from a maze of close-set buildings, men in dark shirts and loose trousers with distinctly threatening attitudes.

Most of it was perfectly flat, though it was broken in places by rolling meadows and fields, and Joseph could see low hills in the distance that were covered with stiff, close-set ranks of slender trees with purplish leaves.

There was a moment of silence as they all viewed the portrait, now altered to an honest representation of the former Bitran Lord close-set eyes, bad complexion, scanty hair and the mole on his chin.