What is "deep-set"

Usage examples of "deep-set".

Ohmsfords, when the stranger reached up and pulled back the cowl of his cloak to reveal clearly the dark face, now framed by long black hair, cut nearly shoulder length and shading the deep-set eyes, which still showed only as black slits in the shadows beneath the heavy brows.

The remaining eye, lashless and browless, glared at him redly from its deep-set socket.

He had a lot of long black hair, a drooping pistolero mustache, rubbery brown jowls, flinty little eyes deep-set under thick black brows, buffalo shoulders, a lacy white guayabera stretched taut across chest and stomach, a lot of dangling gold trinkets on a thick gold chain nested in the black chest hair, and a sharp tang of some kind of insistent male perfume.

In his early twenties, Quaid had deep-set eyes with all the warmth of a reptile.

But it was his fierce, deep-set eyes that captured her attention as they regarded her with a kind of uncensored curiosity.

The wardsman, meeting those deep-set eyes, knew that what he saw in them was nothing which could be a part of any sane life.

Ascetic, crucified, with a little smile clinging to the lips and deep-set eyes, he presided, above the bluefish flames of a log fire.

The Shreck, on the other hand, was a short fat butterball of a man, with a bulging fleshy face and deep-set eyes.

A short, fat butterball of a man, with a bulging fleshy face and deep-set eyes, the Shreck was one of the most dangerous men in society, mostly because he never cared what his actions cost him as long as he got what he wanted.

He sat there in a chair fashioned of hrata wood, deep-set in the earth so that the wood lived again and put forth small twiglets and branches, making a snug shield against the wind for one sitting there.

All around them in the deep-set night, the varicolored explosions popped and sugged, expanding in all directions like fireworks, then dimming the scene, again the blackness.

Sitting in an old wooden armchair before a battered table, almost a caricature of the English butler, Virkan looked like Anna had supposed, pudgy, but not fat, with deep-set weasellike eyes that shifted from one side of the small lower room to the other.

Their doorways and deep-set windows were framed with carved fretwork and pillars of ancient design.

The one was an aged man, whose venerable head in attitude and expression indicated the profoundest melancholy: the other was a youth, and in his deep-set eye there was a quiet sadness more touching still.

The other two scalies also fell away from Ryan, standing looking at him through their deep-set eyes.