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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 dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in.
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 old
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.
Rabbi Melzi smiled at him with infinitely old but merry eyes.
`` Um '', said the old lady, and brought her eyes down to the tray.
Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.
He saw the land with a stranger's eyes, all the old familiarness gone.
`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.
under the scraggly brows the pale old eyes burned with a bitter memory.
The old gal stared at me with her hard eyes, said, `` She didn't call.
A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.
As the two wait for the " third smile ", on the old, Armfeldt closes her eyes, and dies peacefully.
In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.
Rabbinic literature also linked Isaac's blindness in old age, as stated in the Bible, to the sacrificial binding: Isaac's eyes went blind because the tears of angels present at the time of his sacrifice fell on Isaac's eyes.
It was also very strong in the old mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the Methodists stressed that the working classes were equal to the upper classes in the eyes of God.
At 10 to 11 days after birth the baby rabbits ' eyes open and they start eating on their own at around 14 days old.
A snowman is created by making a man shaped figure out of snow – often using a large, shaped snowball for the body and a smaller snowball for the head which is often decorated with simple household items – traditionally including a carrot for a nose, and coal for eyes, nose and mouth ; occasionally including old clothes such as a top hat or scarf.
" All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination ; Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a thirty-something year old, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man.
She wrote to a friend, Charlotte Murchison, in November that year: " Perhaps you will laugh when I say that the death of my old faithful dog has quite upset me, the cliff that fell upon him and killed him in a moment before my eyes, and close to my feet ... it was but a moment between me and the same fate.
It starred Henry Fonda as an old gunslinger who watched ' his ' old West fade away before his very eyes as he played his guitar.
As Heywood Broun noted in his eulogy for Debs, quoting a fellow Socialist: " That old man with the burning eyes actually believes that there can be such a thing as the brotherhood of man.

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