It might be that of a high-spirited and large-brained woman; beautiful it could not be called.

There was something amiss with the eyes.

All the other features might pass: they were neither plain nor comely: a forehead of good type, a very ordinary nose, largish lips, chin suggesting the masculine; but the eyes, to begin with, were prominent, and they glistened in a way which made it very difficult to determine their colour.

They impressed Denzil as of a steely-grey, and seemed hard as the metal itself.

His preference was distinctly for soft feminine eyes--such as Lilian gazed with.
Her figure was slight, but seemed strong and active.