Quote: “So you are Irish. That is why you have the dark hair and the blue-gray eyes with the look—“
“—as though they had been put in with a smutty finger,” Norman finished with amusement.
“Comment? What is that you say?”
“That is a saying about Irish eyes—that they have been put in with a smutty finger.”
“Really? It is not elegant, that. And yet, it expresses it well.”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot and Norman Gale, to Jane Grey
Chapter/Story: XVI
Book Title/Copyright: Death in the Air, 1935
Subject: Dark Eyes
Subject: Dark Eyes
Quote: How very black George’s eyes were. She’d thought of them as brown but they were black, and there was something curiously impenetrable about black eyes. They concealed the thoughts that lay behind them.
Character: Susan Banks
Chapter/Story: 11—ii
Book Title/Copyright: Funerals Are Fatal, 1953
