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eyes and blinked
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
He clutched the staff, and his dark eyes blinked apologetically.
* Jeremiah Denton repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during the 1966 televised press conference that he was forced into as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors, spelling out the word, " T-O-R-T-U-R-E ".
" And: “ Two enormous golden eyes with jet-black, hourglass pupils blinked once, then twice again.

eyes and hard
But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
Occasionally if I pushed him too far he'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard cruel bony skull would show through that smooth face of his.
She smiled at Winston, and he saw the hateful hard glitter in her eyes.
The old gal stared at me with her hard eyes, said, `` She didn't call.
He is tall and thin and, as Tarrou observes in his journal, " his small, beady eyes, narrow nose, and hard, straight mouth make him look like a well-brought-up owl.
Hold the breath and close the eyes, pulling the gas mask out of its carrying case and put the mask on, exhale hard to purge any contaminants from the interior of the mask, put a hand over the canister hole, and take a breath: the mask should collapse onto the face to provide a seal.
In an address to the Hitler Youth, Adolf Hitler stated " In our eyes, the German boy of the future must be slim and slender, as fast as a greyhound, tough as leather and hard as Krupp steel " („... der deutsche Junge der Zukunft muß schlank und rank sein, flink wie Windhunde, zäh wie Leder und hart wie Kruppstahl.
" Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyesand somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.
* the frontal sinuses, superior to the eyes, in the frontal bone, which forms the hard part of the forehead.
The symptoms and signs include acute facial nerve paralysis, pain in the ear, taste loss in the front two-thirds of the tongue, dry mouth and eyes, and eruption of a erythematous vesicular rash in the ear canal, the tongue, and / or hard palate.
It may also affect the lungs, the eyes, the dural sac surrounding the spinal cord, the skeleton and the hard palate.
** the frontal sinuses, superior to the eyes, in the frontal bone, which forms the hard part of the forehead.
Squinting closely at the surface, he pressed down hard to drive the point in, and the awl glanced across the tough leather and struck him in one of his eyes.
Sea urchins have no visible eyes, legs, or means of propulsion, but can move freely over hard surfaces using adhesive tube feet, working in conjunction with the spines.
It's written / directed by the team of Morris Engel and Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin ... The dialogue was sparse, the story was unambitious, the film lacked drama, the children were very ordinary and their problem was only a minor one, nevertheless this beautifully realized film caught the world through the innocent eyes of a curious and scared child and left an impression that was hard to shake.
In contrast, those groups that expressed pride by humbly focusing on members ' efforts and hard work tended to have high social standing in both the public and personal eyes.
" the patient's facial appearance may be described thus: the nose sharp, the eyes sunken, the temples fallen in, the ears cold and drawn in and their lobes distorted, the skin of the face hard, stretched and dry, and the colour of the face pale or dusky … and if there is no improvement within prescribed period of time, it must be realized that this sign portends death.
This is a strategy that is incompatible with observational field studies, and weakens them in the eyes of hard science.
The original equipment used by players were safety goggles of the type used in labs and wood shops ; today's goggles are derived from skiing / snowboarding goggles, with an attached hard shell that completely covers the eyes, mouth, ears and nostrils of the wearer.
His moments of hard and ruthless dealing, in which his eyes narrow coldly and his jaw sets, are heavily interlarded with gay and smiling gobs of Tracy charm.
In Collini's opinion, " Dover Beach " is a difficult poem to analyze, and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with " fresh eyes ".
Her eyes are dark and project a hard, glowing, and fearless quality.
" Thus it is possible that he inherited the " elven-light ... hard to endure " of his mother's eyes.

eyes and snapping
Some aquatic turtles, such as snapping turtles and soft-shelled turtles, have eyes closer to the top of the head.
Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut ; snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels like nothing but the man's fingers on the tambourine ; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs — all sorts of legs and no legs — what is this to him?
The head has black compound eyes, mandibles capable of snapping small trees, and antennae.

eyes and on
When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.
Maintaining his clutch on the hair, Matsuo watched the closed eyes while rummaging in the jacket pockets.
First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.
He would feel ashamed each time and wonder whether his mother and father knew -- thinking they might see it in his eyes or smell it on him.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
It lay with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving, watching us carefully.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.
He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.
But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.
Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.
His eyes now fixed on White's solid figure, Warren could hear behind him the tread of another.

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