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Sentences starting with sunken

Sunken eyes and hollow cheeks--wet, cold, and famine--and horrors before them all, that were even worse--we must forget such things if we would be tranquil here. [12]

Sentences ending with sunken

Some came back with their color gone and their red cheeks sallow and bearded and sunken. [9]
There was the same fever in the eyes, though Norman's face was more worn and the eyes more sunken. [11]
Her eyes were dry and glistening, her lips compressed, her cheeks sunken. [2]
Papa thought me a little stronger; he said my eyes were not so sunken. [14]

More example sentences with the word sunken in them

The Citizen Quartermaster wore his hair long in the backwoods fashion; he had a keen, pale face and sunken eyes. [9]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
This was intended to give her a holiday appearance, but the expression of her faithful eyes and the smile upon her sunken mouth showed her darling that his return was a festival to her. [10]
The old valet Tikhon, with sunken, emaciated face that bore the stamp of inconsolable grief, replied: "Yes, Princess" to all Princess Mary's questions and hardly refrained from sobbing as he looked at her. [2]
As I rounded the corner of the house and came in sight of the porch I halted--by no will of my own--at the sight of a figure sunken in a wooden chair. [9]
They tell me that those who dig down in the edge of the shallow water find sunken walls, and the remains of old foundations of Roman workmanship. [4]
The cheeks were sunken, the features had grown sharper, and there was a sorrowful expression in the eyes, which, when informing Cleopatra of his friend's condition, glittered with tears. [10]
His temples were sunken, his cheeks hollow, and his face was full of those shadows which lend a sort of tragedy to even the humblest and least distinguished countenance. [11]
When the Antoine struck the sunken iceberg she was not more than one hundred and twenty miles from the coast of Gaspe. [11]
His face was still sunken from his recent illness. [9]
But how tightly she laced, how erect was her bearing, how sweet the smile on her sunken mouth! [10]
The Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, the mildness of his features, was all the greater. [2]
The bravery of our free working-people was overlaid, but not smothered; sunken, but not drowned. [6]
His face looks older and more sunken than it did on that day in the street near the Arsenal, in St. Louis, when he was just a military carpet-bagger out of a job. [9]
One was an officer--a tall, soldierly, handsome man--the other evidently a private or an orderly, sunburned, short, and thin, with sunken cheeks and a dull expression. [2]
The broad leaves of a wide-spreading cottonwood sheltered the sunken roof of weathered boards. [13]
That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified. [12]
For a few moments thus, then his sunken eyes opened, and he looked dazedly at the man bending above him. [11]
It was a man six feet high, gaunt, unshaven, hung with rags; with a haggard face and sunken cheeks, and eyes that pleaded piteously. [5]
But he had lost the necessary concentration; his brown hand, in which the blue veins stood out like cords, fidgeted with the scrolls and the ivory rule, and his sunken lips, which had before been firmly closed, were now twitching restlessly. [10]
Virginia did not leave him until he had fallen asleep, and a smile of peace was come upon his sunken face. [9]
He had long, iron-gray hair and a creased, fleshy face and sunken eyes. [9]
Wretched nest of human vermin about the fountain--rags, dirt, sunken cheeks, pallor of sickness, sores, projecting bones, dull, aching misery in their eyes and ravenous hunger speaking from every eloquent fibre and muscle from head to foot. [5]
The widow received him with a friendly nod; her grey eyes sparkled as brightly as ever, but her round face had grown narrower and there was a sorrowful quiver about the sunken mouth. [10]
The air was heavy with the perfume of the grapes and the smell of late flowers from the sunken garden near by. [9]
Even amid his grief a bitter smile hovered around his sunken lips; to-night the gods themselves were deprived of the honors which were their due. [10]
Hard by these gravestones of dead years, and forming a part of the ruin which some pains had been taken to render habitable in modern times, were two small dwellings with sunken windows and oaken doors, fast hastening to decay, empty and desolate. [12]
All the old graves were sunken in, there was not a tombstone on the place; round-topped, worm-eaten boards staggered over the graves, leaning for support and finding none. [5]
He had just felt happy in the heart of eternal love; but now the expression of his countenance changed, and his dark, sunken eyes flashed angrily. [10]
Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides. [2]
One morning his face was sunken and his hands were very, very cold. [6]
Behold these sad eyes, these sunken cheeks, this withered frame! [5]
Kuni opened her eyes as wide as if a miracle had happened, and the crimson spots on her sunken cheeks betrayed how deeply she was agitated. [10]
Nor the Chain, either--in the nature of things; for it is a chain of sunken rocks admirably arranged to capture and kill steamboats on bad nights. [5]
Then he stooped down to the sunken, ashen face, over which death was fast drawing its veil. [11]
He donned a diving-suit and went below to the sunken galleon. [11]
Yes, yes, the dim light of the lamp was shining on her pale face, and the large sunken eyes were gazing with imploring anguish at the image of the Virgin on the opposite wall. [10]
I feel how deeply my eyes are sunken and how pale I must be. [10]
The private garden, close to the imperial residence, was also closed to the public, who in vain looked across the sunken fence to the parterres, fountains, and statues, in the hope that the mysterious man would come out there and publicly enjoy himself. [4]
Her poor, sunken chest would no longer permit it. [10]
Her hair was carefully done and her face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded outlines. [2]
These were known as the Colombiere, the Grosse Tete, Tas de Pois, and the Marmotiers; each with its retinue of sunken reefs and needles of granitic gneiss lying low in menace. [11]
He was drawn and haggard, and his eyes were sunken and wild. [11]

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