Instead, he died from a crushing sadness and disappointment after discovering that Zhu, whom he had courted as a handsome man with beautiful eyes, turned out to be a woman under her man's disguise.

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As he looks through the eyepiece of his Leica, the beautiful blonde opens her eyes and smiles at him.

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Curiosity mission planner Dawn Sumner said photographs like the ones beamed back by the rover, as well as others taken by probes in orbit, will be used to map a path to the mountain's base -- "doing the best science we can along the way, but also keeping our eyes on that beautiful layered rock, " she said.

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His eyes are large and beautiful, and his mouth is decisive.

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News flash: Beautiful women are known to capture the eyes of older men.

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For weeks after, that first image of my beautiful son as he emerged -- eyes closed, still, so pure in his newness -- was emblazoned on the inside of my eyelids.

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He has eyes like George Clooney and beautiful hands.

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Like everyone else in school, he's got a crush on a beautiful girl named Mary (Cameron Diaz, mostly eyes and legs.) One day, after he tries to rescue Mary's mentally-handicapped brother from a cruel bully, Mary asks Ted to the prom.

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He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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When the company's 87-year-old proprietor learns that a muckraking local weekly is about to run a scathing article about a company employee, a beautiful Russian with a long swan-like neck and delicate Tartar eyes, who was killed by a suicide-bomber and whose body remains unclaimed, he directs the human-resources manager to find out what happened and to make amends, no matter what the cost.

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His eyes are reflexively drawn in her nipples are large and brown, more beautiful than he would have imagined.

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As beautiful as close-up photographs of Saturn are, there is nothing like seeing this planetary wonder with your own eyes, live.

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