You can’t but help like such a maverick, something in the moss-coloured eyes, and the difference between him and the rest of the family making him sound like a human cuckoo planted in the nest.Â
He became a short-necked, thick, muscle-bound youngster, a red-cheeked moss-eyed rascal who resembled neither his parents nor his brothers and sisters.
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Source: Lajos Zilahy, The Dukays, trans. John Pauker (London: Prion, 2001), p. 53
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