Definition of "deep-eyed" []

• Having eyes set well behind the brow; characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver. (adjective)

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• "It was always so, always had been so, always would be so, at these meetings of theirs: she was immeasurably the strongest; and the deep-eyed young man fancied, in the chagrin which the perception of this difference always bred in him, that she triumphed in her superior control."
• "It struck her then that they were very similar in look, both powerfully built, deep-eyed, and stern."
• "Sculptures like life and thought, immovable, deep-eyed."