"Eyelid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not bear too bright a light. It asks to have the pupil made small, and even the eyelid curtains put down, when the light is ...
— Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes • Jane Andrews
... after; my sister and I, the sole offspring of Charles I, both before we are women grown fallen into the hands of cowardly men, who use us but as the stepping-stones of their ambition!" Joan fell back exhausted on her chair, a burning tear trembling on her eyelid. ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - JOAN OF NAPLES--1343-1382 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... near it that he could not stop. The boat was carried out, the poor Tin Soldier stiffening himself as much as he could, and no one could say that he moved an eyelid. The boat whirled round three or four times, and was full of water to the very edge—it must sink. The Tin Soldier stood up to his neck in water, and the boat sank deeper and deeper, and the paper was loosened more and more; and now the water closed ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... the time that a man can least forget in after life, —the time when he believes that the first woman he has ever loved betrays by a slight something—a word, a tone, a glance, the quivering of a lip or an eyelid—that she is at least beginning to love him in return. The sign is so slight, it is scarcely perceptible to the ear or eye—he could describe it to no one—it is a mere feather-touch, yet it seems to have changed his whole being, to have merged an uneasy yearning ...
— Journalism for Women - A Practical Guide • E.A. Bennett
... slowly, stared him full in the face for a moment without the quiver of an eyelid, her fine figure tense, erect, cold, as she ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon
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