black eye

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Her red hair was piled haphazardly on top of her head, and she was sporting an impressive black eye from our combat training that day.

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She just stood there in the moonlight with a warm little smile on her face, staring out over the river, her black eyes glowing like black haws in the morning dew.

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Last to take shape were four small paws and two beady black eyes.

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Getting off on the wrong foot was a Mom catchphrase—that was what she’d said about Jonah and Billy Barton in second grade, when Jonah came home with a black eye.

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She had shiny black hair and kind black eyes that crinkled at the corners when she smiled, and she smiled a lot.

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