73 Verbs to Use for the Word eyelids

Dana records that he once saw a man so that he had to raise his eyelids with his fingers.

that it was in connection with the window of an eternal worldnamely, Willie's soulfrom which at a given moment it would lift the curtains, namely, the eyelids, and let the night of the outer world in upon the thought and feeling of the boy!

Only once, as he stood there waiting to be questioned, did he cast a furtive look towards the man whose life hung on his evidence, but the malevolent vindictive gaze Birchill shot back at him caused him to lower his eyelids instantly.

no more," I said, slowly, to myself, and closed my eyelids, somewhat willing to drop after all that they had endured that day.

She got snow and wiped his face clean of blood, touching the closed eyelids gently.

Besides," she murmured, colouring, with drooping eyelids, "I had rather be beaten by you than caressed by another.

Her moral nerves shrank from it, just as nerves of the body shrink from suffering; and she recoiled from the suggestion of such a thing with the same involuntary quickness with which we put up the hand to ward off a falling blow, or drop the eyelid to protect an endangered eye.

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

" Baldo raised his shoulders, pressed his withered eyelids together, and answered, in disgust: "God pity you, Cercamorte!

From this forth she did not take her eyes off Clotilde, and it filled her with a sort of fear to remark that the girl scarcely moved her eyelids, looking with that inconsolable fixity which defies sleep.

[THE SENSITIVE PLANT] Weak with nice sense, the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer-glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade; And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshened charms the rising light.

On this night I happened to awake suddenly, in time to see Bill slip out of his bunk and stand by me, rubbing his red eyelids with his knuckles.

" "I know that," said the witness viciously; "and I say that you've no business to make any such insinuations to a respectable young lady when there's a cook-housekeeper and a kitchenmaid living in the house, and him old enough to be my father" Here his lordship flattened his eyelids with startling effect, and Mr. Loram interrupted: "I make no insinuations.

How unlike the modest Pannychis! who wanted but half a bed, which need not be stuffed with the down of hares or the feathers of partridges, without which sleep refused to visit Leaena's eyelids.

Gently the fire-girl rolled her into a relaxed position on her side, tucked in the flung arm, and kissed the closed eyelids.

" But to fix his attention for any length of time fatigued Charles, and he was the first to lower his eyes; he seemed to be interested in his pictures, while Aunt Dide, who had an astonishing power of fixing her attention, as if she had been turned into stone, continued to look at him fixedly, without even winking an eyelid.

The sweep of night air in his face was sweet and smooth, not coldfor a marvel in that altitudeand stroked his eyelids with touches as bland as caresses of a pretty woman's fingers.

Hence, when the lining membrane of the eye is red and swollen, as during a cold, the nasal passages are also irritated, and when the nasal membrane is inflamed, the irritation is apt to pass upwards and affect the eyelids.

I stood right by him, looking into his face, and he didn't so much as bat an eyelid.

Sylvia felt the tears stinging her eyelids, and pulled Judith out of the tragic house.

Then I takes the liberty of pushing back your poor aunt's eyelids, and I could but see the whites of her eyes; the eyeballs was gone up, and a bit outwards.

Thus, if anything irritates the eyelids, the sensory nerves are stimulated and the impression is carried to the brain.

A thin layer of mucous membrane which lines the eyelids and covers the front of the eyeball, thus joining the latter to the lids.

She rested her arms on it, and narrowed her eyelids as he spoke till her eyes glittered through the slits of them.

This story centered about a simple adultery and ended with an inexpressible terror when Bonhomet, opening Claire's eyelids, as she lies in her death bed, and penetrating them with monstrous plummets, distinctively perceives the reflection of the husband brandishing the lover's decapitated head, while shouting a war song, like a Kanaka.

73 Verbs to Use for the Word  eyelids