246 examples of eyelash in sentences

He had come within an eyelash of running amuck, and the quivering hunger for action was still swelling and ebbing in him when he reached the gambler's house.

Rise with the dawnah, very soon For me neglect a hundred plans; Direct thy flight toward the fount, To Tanina and Cherifa. "Speak to the eyelash-darkened maid, To the beautiful one of the pure, white throat; With teeth like milky pearls.

How slight the mysterious touch that throws the smooth-running human mechanism into a chaos of jarring elements, that transforms, in the turn of an eyelash, the mild humanity of the gentlest of beings into the unreasoning ferocity of the tiger.

The pressure and the friction excite the vessels of the part, and cause an absorption of the effused matter under the eyelash.

Before they could wink an eyelash they were safely down the chimney.

" Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes sat as still as they could in their little chairs by the fire and never winked an eyelash.

Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes were so still they did not wink an eyelash.

Now, however, he would come no more until he came finally to "take with him the bride" The thought was in Horatio's mind when for a third time he encountered her, face to face, on a landing, near a stair, or somewhere in the house, he couldn't afterward just exactly recall where, only that she looked through him, without recognition, speech or movement of an eyelash, as if he had been a thing of thin air!

she flashed, without as much as the flicker of an eyelash.

" Allerdyke, closely watching the woman around whom so much mystery centred, saw that she did not move so much as an eyelash.

Eyelash : Gneearee.

Without changing his pose by so much as the lifting of an eyelash, Victor spoke in Chinese: "To-morrow afternoon, late, I shall motor down into the country with the girl Sofia.

pestaña, f., eyelash.

One of the two natives at the oars was the little Fijian who had been the pupil of the Maori, but he didn't bat an eyelash when I stared at him.

The brunette matron continued to stare at the shade in the exact spot upon which her gaze had been before directed, and she never quivered an eyelash.

Not the flicker of an eyelash betrayed her own thought.

Not so much as blinked an eyelash!

In the closed doorway of the town hall a tiny group of men were gathered, a group who spoke scarcely above a whisper, who kept a sharp lookout all surrounding, who stood ready at the twitch of an eyelash to disperse to the four winds.

We have banished prologue and afterpiece as something old-fashioned and inartistic, but never turn one solitary eyelash when Hamlet follows up his death by rushing before the curtain and grinning his thanks.

The commander-in-chief fixed his stern eye upon his face, but the young man neither changed countenance nor quivered an eyelash.

The clue of the eyelash, by Carolyn Wells.

The clue of the eyelash.

I think he was absolutely astonished to see me there; but he never winked an eyelash.

I stole a look at her and saw that a large tear was hanging on one eyelash ready to fall.

But this was not all that struck him; the face before him was no longer the passionate, haggard visage that confronted him that morning; the feverish air, the burning color, the strained muscles of mouth and brow, and the staring eyes were gone; wiped away, perhaps, by the tears that still left their traces on cheek and dark eyelash.

246 examples of  eyelash  in sentences