Sunken

Examples

• With sunken cheek and hollow eyes, pale and gaunt, how could I recognize the beloved of Perdita? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Dejah Thoris and I with the other members of the royal family had collected in a sunken garden within an inner courtyard of the palace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• So, though we had escaped a sunken rock, which we scraped upon in the passage, I thought this escape of rather more importance to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Certainly,' said Mr. Snodgrass: for the sunken eye of the dismal man rested on him, and he felt it necessary to say something. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Lake system greatly simplifies the work of search for sunken ships, the vessels being able in a few hours’ time to search over regions which would have taken months in the old method. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such things as this are done successfully only when the prestige and tradition and learning of the priestly order has sunken to a very low level. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His cheeks were sunken and his cheekbones prominent. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Behold these sad eyes, these sunken cheeks, this withered frame! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We have described him, by the bye, as having deeply-sunken eyes, in the best of times. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On either side of her thin, hawk-like nose her eyes burned from the depths of horribly sunken sockets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Blanched face, sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, beard of three days' growth, wasted flesh, short thick breath; it was the very ghost of Sikes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Now they were crusted and the knee was swollen and discolored and the calf sunken but there was no pus. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was a tall, gaunt, cadaverous man, in an old greatcoat and slippers, with sunken cheeks, and a restless, eager eye. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then rock formed, and the rock pressed down upon the sunken vegetation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The road here was below the level of the river bank and all along the side of the sunken road there were holes dug in the bank with infantry in them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• From world to world His couriers fly, Thought-winged and shod with fire; The angel of His stormy sky Rides down the sunken wire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The child was pale and thin; his cheeks were sunken; and his eyes large and bright. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Agustín looked at him and his dark, sunken cheeks widened at their base as he grinned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She shed indeed many tears; her head sunk unconsciously on the shoulder of Raymond; he held her hand: he kissed her sunken tear-stained cheek. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Agustín, tall and sunken cheeked, stood up and came over to him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He lies upon his bed, an aged man with sunken cheeks, the decrepit shadow of himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The target was the sunken hulk of the San Marcos, formerly the battleship Texas, which for several years had been used for similar purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Agustín squatted there, tall, black, stubbly joweled, with his sunken eyes and thin mouth and his big work-worn hands. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked by rings of coral or atolls standing over them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Blair