He was standing still, on the walk near the fence, gazing at the batting and catching with so deep an interest that his mouth would stay open, when he suddenly found himself "surrounded.

Kate set her teeth and forced her eyes to stay open.

She organized an evening sewing-circle for women whose eyelids would not stay open after their long day's work.

[Illustration] [Illustration] RECIPE FOR A HAPPY DAY One morning Marjorie's Mamma called to her several times before Marjorie answered, for her pretty brown eyes were very sleepy and would hardly stay open.

He wore the brown, oilskin-like, two-piece suit of the Chinese of southern China, and he had no teeth and no hair, and his eyes would not stay open.

I am getting my hand in on a contumacious closet door that won't stay open in my bedroom....

Then there was a pause and then it flew open and stayed open.