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Quotes About Sunken

The twins hid their bodies under their father's tallis, like ghosts. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
~ Jean Genet
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
~ Eugenides Jeffrey
sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise
~ Antonia Fraser
The Red Baron and his eighty combat victories in the sky pale in comparison to legendary U-boat captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière and his 194 sunken ships.
~ John U. Bacon
The wave of night receded once more and the face was staring up at him, body hunched down on the floor, head cocked, sunken cheek pressed against the side of the mattress, teeth clenched in a lipless grin.
~ Scott Thomas
that the body of light come forth from the body of fire And that your eyes come to the surface from the deep wherein they were sunken, Reina -- for 300 years, and now sunken That your eyes come forth from their caves
~ Ezra Pound
I had never heard of it, but then I do not clutter my mind with trivialities such as tales of ancient sunken cities and such. They take up room that might be more usefully occupied by facts and theories related to solving crimes. I recall how Watson was shocked when he learned that I could not name the planets, and had no idea that they numbered eight. But really, of what use is such information? None.
~ F. Paul Wilson
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes
~ Charles Dickens
varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous
~ Charles Dickens
Then a skeleton came out from among the trees. It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so ragged and filthy it was difficult to identify. The sunken cheeks were covered with a thin scattering of fuzz; the hair was lank and matted. It fell over the skeleton's forehead and down into its eyes
~ Irene Hunt