Eyeball

Examples

• Convex glasses, by bending the rays and bringing them to a nearer focus, overbalance a short eyeball with its tendency to focus objects behind the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The eyeball of a nearsighted person is very wide, and the retina is too far away from the crystalline lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Concave glasses, by separating the rays and making the focus more distant, overbalance a wide eyeball with its tendency to focus objects in front of the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The eyeball of a farsighted person is very short, and the retina is too close to the crystalline lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The eyeball itself is very white, as are the teeth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He did not move from his place, or raise his head from his hands; his hidden eyeballs went on staring into utter darkness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The pupils of his eyes were now contracted; his eyeballs gleamed in the light of the candle as he moved his head slowly to and fro. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I sat up straight and as I did so something inside my head moved like the weights on a doll's eyes and it hit me inside in back of my eyeballs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Edited by Gillian