Eyes

Examples

• The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Or her taste for peculiar people, put in Mrs. Archer in a dry tone, while her eyes dwelt innocently on her son's. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She put the handkerchief to her eyes once. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I was admiring the boy's handsome dark eyes, when the mother, young Mrs. Leigh, entered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You have no right to shut your eyes to any of it nor any right to forget any of it nor to soften it nor to change it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I thought her, then, still more colourless and thin than when I had seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still plainer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The man knew her, and might by a fortunate chance see her, or hear of her; that was something, as enlisting one pair of eyes and ears the more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It attracted Mr. Lorry's eyes to Carton's face, which was turned to the fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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