Through nearly closed eyelids she watched two of the men enter; the one who had brought them to the house and his elder brother.

My soul Is torn out from my body, and sweet sleep Keeps far aloof from my tired eyelids' need. 'Tis Aycha causes this, the pretty one.

She had expected that Mary would have left her ladyship's room in tears, and would have retired to her own apartment to hide her swollen eyelids and humiliated aspect.

Quite plainly he saw Jack Harpe accompany his words with a slight lowering of his left eyelid.

Gradually light began to leak through their shut eyelids, the wing of the wind beat away from them, and the boat rocked slower and slower in warm, spring-scented air.

" I remember reading in one of those historical novels once about a chapa buck he would have been, no doubt, or a macaroni or some such bird as thatwho, when people said the wrong thing, merely laughed down from lazy eyelids and flicked a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists.

and Andrew said, 'It is,' but yet he hesitated; and I needed not the sight of his questioning look at Althea, nor of her dropt eyelids and whitening cheek, to guess the reason of his hesitation.

But it lasts but a short time, and the reaction is the same as beforedrooping eyes, languid eyelids, and a sigh.

He is telling that girl a storythat fair girl with heavy eyelids, stupid and sensual.

He roused slightly, lifting his weary eyelids and gazing at them as if they were uncertain shadows who wanted some kind of an explanation from him which he had not the strength to give.

They never winked, for ophidians have no movable eyelids, but kept up that awful fixed stare which made the two unwinking gladiators the survivors of twenty pairs matched by one of the Roman Emperors, as Pliny tells us, in his "Natural History."

In the lines of his Roman nose, That turned in the true patrician curve In the curl of his princely lips, In his slightly insolent eyelids, In his pointed finger-tips.

" With a stately bow Mrs. Van Buren took the letter and hastily read it through, her lip quivering a little and her eyelids growing moist as Ethie described the dreariness of that dreadful day when "Aunt Van Buren came up from Boston and broke her heart."

'Partners at cards, even if we are not to be partners for life,' Smithson had whispered, tenderly; and Lesbia's only reply had been a modest lowering of lovely eyelids, and a faint, faint blush.

There was a long silence, a silence of some minutes, when she had done; and Lady Maulevrier lay with lowered eyelids, deep in thought.

Then she softly poured some medicine into a cup, andhe could see no morehis eyelids sank like leadhe only caught with his ear the rustling of her silken dress, like the sound of a parting angel's wings, and all was still again.

This Mongol, usually so calm, so impassible, with his cool look beneath his motionless eyelid, had become a prey to a sort of furious anxiety which he appeared incapable of controlling.

It was very dark in the room, and it took him a moment to accustom himself to the light enough to discover the figure lying so still before him, the pale eyelids closed, and the long eyelashes resting upon the crimson cheek.

I'm going ... to sleep.... KIKI-THE-DEMURE One would think me asleep because the narrow slit made by my parted eyelids, seems but the continuation of that velvety line, that bold crayon-stroke, a sort of Oriental make-up, uniting my eyelids and my ears.

She saw nothing but the drawn white face of Dan and his blue pencilled eyelids.

Kate's face was softened and full of rich expression; her pink ribbons threw a delicate tinge of bloom upon the rounded cheek and pensive eyelid; the air was pure balm, and a cool breath from the receding showers of the distant thunderstorm just freshened the odors of wood and field.

The eunuchoid face is usually fat with puffy eyelids.

Before the repentant owner of the puffy nose and purple eyelid had finished his solitary breakfast, Mr. Sandford came home.

he stormed, kissing my reddened eyelids. "Aren't you ever going to get used to mother's childish outbursts?

" She disengaged herself gently from his embrace, and stood a little way from him, with shy, downcast eyelids.