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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 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 clear
He turned and looked at them with clear blue eyes, immaculate eyes.
He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.
His eyes were clear.
When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.
But his new-found buddy had matched him drink for drink until he lost count, and the man's eyes were still clear.
With his head erect, he approached, not glancing at us, and passed by with his clear eyes raised and fixed straight ahead.
She had lovely violet-blue eyes ; fine pencilled eyebrows and a clear almost transparent complexion.
The war opened Sartre's eyes to a political reality he had not yet understood until forced into continual engagement with it: " the world itself destroyed Sartre's illusions about isolated self-determining individuals and made clear his own personal stake in the events of the time " ( Aronson 1980: 108 ).
There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.
In Book I, the Count states that when the courtier speaks he must have a “ sonorous, clear, sweet and well sounding ” voice that is neither too effeminate nor too rough and be “ tempered by a calm face and with a play of the eyes that shall give an effect of grace .” ( Castiglione 1. 33 ) This grace, or grazia, becomes an important element in the courtier ’ s appearance to the audience.
Thus, upon recovery from the wound inflicted by Angmar on Weathertop, Gandalf speculates that the Hobbit Frodo " may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can ".
The animal has a clear membrane that covers and protects its eyes underwater.
Some sunglasses with interchangeable lenses have optional clear lenses to protect the eyes during low light or night time activities and a colored lens with UV protection for times where sun protection is needed.
He was described as a handsome, tall, broad-shouldered man with a pink and white complexion, clear blue eyes, and a slight Canadian accent.
It has a brown colour with green eyes and clear wings and also a yellow triangular mark on the second abdominal segment which gave rise to its scientific name.
Both have a brown thorax and abdomen but A. isoceles has green eyes and clear wings and a diagnostic yellow triangular mark on the second abdominal segment.
To protect their eyes, the falcons use their nictitating membranes ( third eyelids ) to spread tears and clear debris from their eyes while maintaining vision.
In any case, its logic is clear: the condemned prisoner, in the eyes of the law, was dead already.
Such helmets have an open cutout in a band across the eyes and nose, and often include a clear or tinted transparent plastic face shield, known as a visor, that generally swivels up and down to allow access to the face.
The first of these steps is contemplation of a setting sun, until the visualization is clear whether the eyes are open or closed.
The external features undergo other dramatic changes as well: the eyes start to enlarge in size, the eye pigments change for optimal vision in dim blue clear ocean light, and the sides of their bodies turn silvery, to create a countershading pattern to make them difficult to see by predators during their long open ocean migration.
Day geckos have rounded pupils and a clear, fixed plate covering their eyes which they clean with their tongue.

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