Eyelid

Examples

• Did that eyelid tremble? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As he turned aside his face a minute, I saw a tear slide from under the sealed eyelid, and trickle down the manly cheek. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A soft kind of youthful shyness depressed her eyelid and mantled on her cheek. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I saw her eyelid flitter when I came in, but she did not look up; _now_ she hardly ever gives me a glance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No,' replied Mr. Snodgrass; and a tear trembled on his sentimental eyelid, like a rain-drop on a window-frame--'no; he is not ill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When I at last drew him down on to the sofa, his mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he had a stroke. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Jos waved his hand, scornfully glancing at the same time under his eyelids at the great folks opposite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Birkin looked at him from under his slack, ironical eyelids. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The meeting looked at each other with raised eyelids; and a murmur of astonishment ran through the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Other seven faces there were, carried higher, seven dead faces, whose drooping eyelids and half-seen eyes awaited the Last Day. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Her eyelids quivered, her lips coloured and trembled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mortimer raises his drooping eyelids, and slightly opens his mouth. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Well, it is what I call no water, she said, blushing, and lifting her long-lashed eyelids as if to lift them were a work requiring consideration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And why are their faces so sadly unfinished, especially about the corners of the eyelids? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her eyelids had lost some of their redness now, and she had her usual air of self-command. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His eyelids had dropped slightly, there was about him the same suggestive, mocking secrecy that was in the bearing of the two city creatures. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The sun was shining directly upon the window-blind, and at his first glance thitherward a sharp pain obliged him to close his eyelids quickly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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