1903, Joseph Conrad and , "Romance":Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.
1917, William MacLeod Raine, The Sheriff's Son, ch. 19:Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.
1918, Zane Grey, The U. P. Trail, ch. 35:Swarthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.