Eyelashes
['aɪ,læʃ]
Examples
- While obeying my directions, he glanced at me now and then suspiciously from under his frost-white eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She has long eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She looked rosy, happy, half smiling, but her eyelashes were wet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The expression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, lying in ridges on his dress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though Bessy's eyes were shut, she was listening for some time, for the moisture of tears gathered heavy on her eyelashes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Harold