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Calm under fire, he possessed a sure and penetrating coup d'œil; he had great experience in war.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
He had a loose hairy benignant face with a humorous but penetrating eye and the usual domelike brow.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
It was shrill, it was penetrating, it rose and fell with a sort of ripping, tearing slash.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
Now and then - 63 -he turns his head slowly as he leads, and rests these keen, penetrating orbs on the sea of dancers below him.
THE REAL LATIN QUARTERF. BERKELEY SMITH
Some were for trying a new line of road, and for penetrating into Guzerat through Rajpootana.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
The country into which they were penetrating is one of the most remarkable in the world for its physical peculiarities.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Zizi's penetrating glance overcame Molly's boldness and she trembled in silence as Zizi said, "by marriage!"
IN THE ONYX LOBBYCAROLYN WELLS
Frozen by the sharp, penetrating north wind, Marie's teeth began to chatter convulsively.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUE
One of the latter struck my knee with force enough to wound the bone without penetrating the grained-leather boot-leg.
FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WARVARIOUS
Once more the man felt a cutting and sickening wound, as of a bullet penetrating a vital part.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST

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