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eyes and were
Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.
His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;
his eyes were black and deep-set, and expressionless.
But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.
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.
Brenner continued to smile, but his eyes were cold.
There was raw fury in his eyes, and the veins of his neck were swollen.
And what eyes they were.
and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.
The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
Dr. Lalaurie wore a maroon smoking jacket, and his myopic eyes were blurry and glistened behind thick octagonal lenses.
The ridges over his eyes were huge and his eyelids were half shut.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.
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.
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
His hat was gone, the tears were streaming from his eyes.

eyes and dark
At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree expression, Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened with unshed tears.
She took it grudgingly, her dark eyes baleful as they met his.
Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.
I think, too '', he said, his dark eyes mischievous, `` that you will find there some clue to the secret of the cathedrals about which you have spoken ''.
When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.
He clutched the staff, and his dark eyes blinked apologetically.
Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a person with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside and the clarity was back in her eyes.
but all the same he thought now, uneasily, of the way in which Angelo earned his living -- and paid for his own stuff -- and eyed the soft smile, and the spaniel-like dark eyes, and he felt a little ill.
And, shoving her against a spruce, her back to him, he retreated with the whip and made it whine and crack in the damp air, shortening its arc until it narrowed to her flesh and the sound of it snarled and cracked, settling its own cruel demons on her shoulders while she stood as unchanged, as dark and motionless as ever, her eyes open and staring at the pale delineaments of the bark so close to her face.
Richard's dark eyes came up and seemed for the tiniest moment to reflect sharp light.
He was a beautiful boy, really, with finely-spun blonde hair and a smooth and still effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and dark and brushlike, and his eyes were blue.
David had the same gray eyes, high cheekbones, dark hair and a certain rugged ugliness.
Poirot has dark hair, which he dyes later in life ( though many of his screen incarnations are portrayed as bald or balding ), and green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining " like a cat's " when he is struck by a clever idea.
It is said that her face and dark eyes were as charming as Aphrodite's, and that she honoured her husband like no woman before her.
The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.
One hypothesis for the cave fish's evolution says that because of its dark habitat, the fish embryo saves energy it would normally use to develop eyes to develop other body parts, and this developmental choice would eventually dominate the population.
Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.
Blind people with undamaged eyes may still register light non-visually for the purpose of circadian entrainment to the 24-hour light / dark cycle.

eyes and fluid
He recalled that the worst moments were being towed with fluid rushing up his nose and his eyes swelling up.
It lies on its side, mouth and eyes open, tongue hanging out, emitting a green fluid from its anus whose putrid odor repels predators.
He dissected the eyes of animals, and discovering three layers ( not two ), found that the fluid was of a constant consistency with the lens forming ( or congealing ) after death, and the surrounding layers were seen to be juxtaposed.
When " playing possum ", the animal's lips are drawn back, the teeth are bared, saliva foams around the mouth, the eyes close or half-close, and a foul-smelling fluid is secreted from the anal glands.
This fluid may irritate eyes or skin.
However, when the Master removes his sunglasses, revealing non-human eyes, the Doctor and Dr Holloway abandon the ambulance and steal a police motorcycle, but not before the Master is able to shoot Dr Holloway's wrist with a strange, bile-like fluid.
These may include jaundice ( yellow discolouration of the skin and the whites of the eyes ), ascites ( fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity ), and peripheral edema ( swelling of the legs due to fluid build-up in the skin ).
These include floaters ( material floating in the eye fluid that appears as black / dark objects floating in front of the eyes and are particularly visible when looking at the bright sky or on a white wall ) and the white blood cells of the retinal blood vessels ( seen as tiny, fast-moving and quickly disappearing white specks ).
Exposure to low levels of this chemical can irritate the eyes, cause a cough or sore throat, shortness of breath, and fluid accumulation in the lungs.
Yet this is a myth: Crocodiles possess lacrimal glands which secrete a proteinaceous fluid, just like in humans, though tears will only be visible after a crocodile is out of the water for a prolonged period of time, and the eyes begin to dry out.
Insertion of an NPA is contraindicated in patients with severe head or facial injuries, or have evidence of a basilar skull fracture ( Battle's sign, raccoon eyes, cerebrospinal fluid / blood from ears, etc.
Basilar fractures have characteristic signs: blood in the sinuses ; a clear fluid called cerebrospinal fluid ( CSF ) leaking from the nose ( rhinorrhea ) or ears ( otorrhea ); periorbital ecchymosis often called ' raccoon eyes ' ( bruising of the orbits of the eyes that result from blood collecting there as it leaks from the fracture site ); and retroauricular ecchymosis known as " Battle's sign " ( bruising over the mastoid process ).

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