We were aroused from this half lethargy by our friend Gulab-Sing, who gathered a handful of a grass, perfectly unknown to us, and advised us to rub our temples and eyelids with it.
Usually a man who is compelled to break the silence by some emergency or other hastens to plunge into water the middle finger of his left hand, which till then had remained hidden behind his back, and to moisten both his eyelids with it.
The pressure of the heat, and the dispiriting atmosphere revealed their effects in the distended eyelids and colorless, twisted lips of the burden-bearers.
She felt his arms now, her face was upraised, her eyelids tensely shut.
Her eyelids narrowed in the midst of confinements.
His eyelids were tightened against the light, and the voice was sharp and brisk.
Mrs. Hamblin was quickly with her daughter, whom she found lying upon the sofa, shedding the first tears that had passed her eyelids for many days.
Belle sighed loud and long; her eyelids unclosed, the blue filling for an instant with wonder, and then the long fringed lids closed again.
Her colour was very light, her face was a pure oval, and between her shaded eyelids lurked the most wonderful depths of dark, liquid brown that ever drowned the reason of a man.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once; The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Sobs and tears and swollen eyelids and sore lamentation, and pleas to be taken home again if this was to be the beginning of their married life.
Soon they were spinning up along the shining Mohawk, and still his eyelidswould not close.
Clara dropped her eyelids for the wave to pass over.
At the edge of the garden, on the bridge that crossed the haha from the park, he had a second impulse, almost a warning within, to seize his heavenly opportunity to ask for thanks and move her tender lowered eyelids to hint at his reward.
Youth weighed her eyelids to sleep, though she was quivering, and quivering she awoke to the sound of her name beneath her window.
The eyelids in such scrutinies reveal the critical mind; Clotilde's drooped till they almost closed upon their lashes--deadly criticism.
She was beginning to drop her eyelids in front of Tresten.
Vernon tried to win a glance, and she was conscious of his effort, but her angry and guilty feelings, prompting her resolution to follow her own counsel, kept her eyelids on the defensive.
His desire was to prove to her that lie was immoderately fond of her already; and he might have flown at her neck had she been sitting up, but her recumbency and eyelids half closed excited wonder in him and awe.
Crossjay's troubled eyelids in his honest young face became a picture for her.
On foot his raised head and half-dropped eyelidstoo palpably assumed superiority.
She had returned home very suddenly, not, as it appeared, owing to her father's illness; and he remembered a redness of her eyelids when he passed her on the corridor one night.
Alvan gave her one out of his pocketbook, and watched her eyelids in profile as she perused those features of the budless grey woman.
She raised her eyelids on them mournfully, and by chance diverted her look to Dr.
While he was endeavouring to think where he was, his legs curled, his eyelids shut, and he was in the thick of the day's adventures, doing yet more wonderful things.
The sight of the drawn blinds, like yellow eyelids in the grey face, awakened some secret irritation in Caldew's breast, and with it the realization of his powers as an officer of Scotland Yard.
The little nose rose in the sharp outline of death; between the half-closed eyelids the darkened blue eyes looked out vacantly.
His very eyelids were still, and this unblinking watchfulness gave him the dreamy air of a cat posed on a hearth-rug contemplating the fire.
She lowered her eyelids and turned her head a little.
Water ran over his eyelids and over his nose, gurgled down his throat, flowed over his chin.
Through a small inner door Schomberg came in, his hair brushed, his beard combed neatly, but his eyelids still heavy from his nap.
Soon the thin membrane between their eyelids dried and parted, and they awoke to a keen interest in their surroundings.
Lady Thurso pressed her fingers against her eyelidsfor a moment.
And then, gently as a child's, Sandie's eyelids flickered once and shut down.
Next morning, after having brushed with a kiss the eyelids of her sleeping children, who it may be were dreaming of her, Mme.
The sick child, with convulsed limbs and eyelids of a bluish black, tried to lift his hands to his head, where he felt intolerable pains.
Lise touched with trembling lips the darkened eyelids of her son, and stretched out her hands to the doctor, who drew her aside and said: "You were right to come, madame.
I stepped back, feeling very uncomfortable, and Mr Frewen parted the lad's eyelids gently enough.
Lying on his side and soothed by the forest and flowing water his eyelids drooped of their own accord.
Paul looked at him, and the impression which the slumbering man made upon him was so strong that his own eyelids drooped.
She uttered a profound sigh, and her eyelids painfully rose.
The hours passed thus rapidly, nearly the whole night slipped away in their confessions, which did not terminate till sleep, which never surrenders its sway over young and animated people, closed the drooping eyelids of the American girl.
His eyelids were shut, and she thought him asleep.
His eyelids had to do with the look of his eyes, and were often seen cutting the ball.
His heavy eyelids closed, and presently he was in dreamland.
His eyelids ached with weariness; but when they drooped, his eyes seemed to radiate a painful light shining from within.
He was dripping wet, his eyes were staring blankly, his nose was running, and his eyelids were red and inflamed, while the tip of his nose was waxen white.
Gerald hesitated and his eyelids twitched nervously, but he pulled himself together and Thorn wondered how far he would stick to the truth.
Yet Kit hesitated and as he stood with his hand on the envelope thought the other's eyelids flickered.
It makes me always think of Pater's Mona Lisa--you remember: 'Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come and the eyelids are a little weary.
And sometimes tears rose slowly and swelled her eyelids and she felt herself a creature coffined and underground, put away and forgotten, though not yet a creature dead.
She did not believe that this one was genuine, yet she had to own, looking at the leaden eyelids and ashen face, that Mercedes had been through enough in the last twelve hours to break down a stronger person.
His eyes kept steadfast between his eyelids as it were horn or iron.
The droop of her eyelids would fan a revolt from Baghdad to Lake Tsana, Her fingers were veined alabaster.
As a cat Watches the sun through eyelids scarce ajar, From dawn till evening prayer I laboured hard, Lolling in ambush round the great courtyard "To pounce on winged words.
I called here,' said she, compressing her eyelids in anguish at a wilder cry of the voice overhead, and forgetting to state why she had called at the house and what services she had undertaken.
Not Cecilia Halkett herself had so high-bred an air, for Cecilia had not her fineness of feature and full quick eyes, of which the thin eyelidswere part of the expression.
For a few moments she made no movement, but her eyelids quivered.
She looked at him a moment, and her eyelids drooped suddenly.
Her eyelids drooped a little and she lazily opened and shut her hand, and spread out the fingers and looked at them.
The brow was low and straight, the eyes of bright darkness but small, and apparently still further reduced in size by the heavyeyelids with their dark lashes.
His swollen eyelids winked at everybody as cunningly as ever, his linen was perhaps a shade less white, but the suspenders had not lost a line of their width, and none of the embroidered roses seemed to have suffered in the least.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyelids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
