The eyes were large,I felt them under the half-closed lids.

I pretended to doze, and lay back with my eyes half-closed watching him.

He sat silent for a minute while his mind seemed to wander off into a maze of dim recollections, and his eyes half-closed, the better to see the pictures that drifted through his memory.

She sat back with eyes half-closed; he saw now that her face looked drawn and paler than usual.

He sat down very willingly in a big armchair, and enjoyed a moment's quiet in the shade; glancing through the half-closed green shutters at the brilliant picture without.

When he had found this necessary "adjunct to thought," he viewed the young girl again through his half-closed lids, and added maliciously: "But supposing it were of paramount importance that you should give an accurate description of a man who sat next to you for half an hour to-day, how would you proceed?"

Stretched upon a lounge, his eyes half-closed, he was coddling himself in the coziest corner of a dainty boudoir.

"Blaikie was saying something about it this morning," resumed Swann, regarding him from half-closed lids, "but he was punching and tapping me all about the ribs while he was talking, and I didn't catch all he said, but I think it's all arranged.

Hannah set it on the top stair, and then glanced wickedly at Cordelia through half-closed eyes that meant mischief.

His sallow cheek had turned a shade paler, and his brows hung threateningly over his half-closed eyes.

He is a smart sight better off than I should have been under the circumstances;" and Oily Dave struck an attitude of respectful admiration, leering at Katherine from his half-closed eyes.

On the couch the girl lay very still with half-closed eyes.

With each expanding flower we find Some pleasing sentiment combin'd; Love in the myrtle bloom is seen, Remembrance to the violet clings, Peace brightens in the olive green, Hope from the half-closed iris springs, Victory from the laurel grows, And woman blushes in the rose.

There was a happy smile on the lips, and a gleam of happiness from under the half-closed eyes.

Cheered yet again the princes, when they saw The lips and jowl all seamed with piteous scars, And the swoln visage and the half-closed eyes.

" I permitted myself a doubt as far as her mother was concerned, but listened to her voice with half-closed eyes; it was sweeter to me than any music.

First, while the band was playing, peacocks' tails were waving, and singers imitating the plaintive notes of birds, to excite the feelings and distract the attention of the hearers, the conjurer turned round violently several times, with his eyes half-closed, and caused great hooded serpents to appear and vultures to come down from the sky to seize them.

The Italian, of course, had withdrawn his hand like a flash, and was leaning the other way, with his eyes half-closed, like one sinking into a doze.

All the windows were dark, and the entrance-hall, when he slipped in between the pillars, but across its floor he saw light thrown in a yellow ribbon from the half-closed door of the drawing-room.

The other thanked him, and then, leaning back in his corner of the settle, watched the smoke of his pipe through half-closed eyes, and assented drowsily to the old man's remarks upon the weather.

While I was watching through the half-closed blinds, some one crossed the piazza.

Then he returned to his seat, and remained gazing with half-closed eyes into the dropping embers.

they heard the doctor shout in a rage, from behind the half-closed door.

Afterwards they did as the others had done, as human beings always do, as they themselves would do many times again in the strange futurethey sat with their eyes half-closed and the same uneasy look of shame and terror in them as Amy and her lover.

After a little he went on speaking, with eyes half-closed.