Lashes

Examples

• She sat silent, without a movement or a tremor of her lashes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They were a light blue and the lashes were light, too. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A half-paralysed white sneering fellow--rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-pleasing shame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was an order, written in Marie's delicate Italian hand, to the master of a whipping-establishment to give the bearer fifteen lashes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her profile did not stir, but he saw a tear overflow on her lashes and hang in a mesh of her veil. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I wrote orders for only fifteen lashes, and told him to put them on lightly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She began to cut the pages of a novel, tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Oh, quite enough to get, Sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered him three hundred and fifty lashes,' replied Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eye-lashes, and curling hair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She paused a moment before the last name, and shot a query through her lashes; but he remained imperturbable. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She smiled a little under her wet lashes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She sat back from her drawing and looked at Ursula, from under her finely-curved lashes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But he saw the shadow of the lashes on her wet cheek, and wavered. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I am sure of it, George, said Eliza, looking upward, while tears of hope and enthusiasm shone on her long, dark lashes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Don't I see a tiny drop on one of the lashes? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She has the same soft, dark eye, with longer lashes, and her curling hair is of a luxuriant brown. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Suddenly he felt something stiff and cold on his lashes, and perceived that he had been crying, and that the wind had frozen his tears. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Evadne did not answer; her large dark eyes were cast down, at length a tear glimmered on the lashes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is a most uncommon complexion, with her dark eye-lashes and haira most distinguishing complexion! Jane Austen. Emma.
• There was the same rich, full, dark eye, with its long lashes; the same ripples of silky black hair. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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