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Example sentences for "eyes fell"

  • He did so, and there was a block as we re-crossed, and I was bending out of the cab to see what was going to happen, when my eyes fell on the figure of a man leaning on the parapet of the bridge, and staring into the river below.

  • Yet, as John's eyes fell, he sighed softly, and Mrs. Temple heard the sigh.

  • Once he looked at May Churchill as he passed her, but the girl's eyes fell as they met his.

  • For this purpose, I was about to return to the barranca, in order to gather some sticks of cedar-wood, when my eyes fell upon an object that drove all thoughts of cookery out of my head, and sent a thrill of terror to my heart.

  • As we ran, my eyes fell upon a horse--a white horse.

  • I was turning away angered and despairing, when my eyes fell upon a figure that seemed to skulk under the shadow of the walls.

  • Janet's eyes fell on the bureau, marked the absence of several knick-knacks, including a comb and brush, and with a sudden sickness of apprehension she darted to the wardrobe and flung open the doors.

  • It was perchance the next evening that my eyes fell upon a sight which is one of the wonders of my boyish memories.

  • As we got out of the carriage, and walked on to the lawn to meet Mrs. Moore, my eyes fell on a group, which not all the soothing effect of the change I have just described could enable me to look upon without disturbance.

  • Again I seized his letter, and as I opened it, my eyes fell on the passage where he said, "If you are not perjured, if you have not called upon Almighty God to witness a lie.

  • Still Herr Krapp must know his own premises, and not much cast down, I was going to knock at a chance door and put the question, when my eyes fell on a man who sat at work in the churchyard.

  • But my eyes fell on my fettered hands; and when I looked again he had disappeared.

  • As I came back, crunching the scraps of mortar underfoot, my eyes fell on a bit of old dusty rope lying coiled on the floor, and in a second I saw a way.

  • As wuz befittin', most the first thing that our eyes fell on wuz a big, noble statute of Benjamin Franklin.

  • And jest the minute my eyes fell on 'em, so quick my intellect moves, I knew what was incumbent on me to do.

  • As Daniel played on and merely nodded to her, Eleanore’s eyes fell on the mask of Zingarella.

  • V On entering his mother’s boudoir, Eberhard’s eyes fell at once on the alabaster clock, the face of which was supported by three figures representing the daughters of time.

  • When Daniel’s eyes fell on her, she was frightened; her body shook with fear; she tried to run away.

  • Together we looked up at the star, and then my eyes fell on the sweet face of my companion.

  • Suddenly the snow cleared, and my eyes fell on a farmhouse hardly a stone's-throw away from the road.

  • By an effort I diverted my thoughts from the tragedy, and my eyes fell on a spider's web hung between two bare twigs just behind the dead man.

  • Again, one day not two years ago, I lifted a newspaper, and my eyes fell on the words "Henry Huddleston.

  • Then my eyes fell upon my children playing with such careless sweet content in the cool, dusky room.

  • My eyes fell upon a bracelet--an old-fashioned bracelet very wide and illuminated by a large stone.

  • I felt the flush deepen on my cheeks and my eyes fell.

  • My lips trembled, and my eyes fell, yet I must answer.

  • My eyes fell, and the words trembled unspoken on my lips.

  • Then my eyes fell on the paper, and before I read the words, I knew that it was the offer of the presidency of the Great South Midland and Atlantic Railroad.

  • Then my eyes fell on Jessy, sitting cold and silent, while she crumbled her bit of bread.

  • Then my eyes fell on a jagged burn on her wrist.

  • The prince's eyes fell on the charred writing.

  • Marsyas' eyes fell again; it seemed that he hesitated at his next question, as though upon its answer turned a matter of great moment.

  • At the end of the story, Lydia's eyes fell slowly, and the interest that had enlivened her face relaxed into pensiveness.

  • My eyes fell on the 12th and 13th chapters of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

  • Then opening the Gospels, my eyes fell on these words: "Jesus, going up into a mountain, called unto Him whom He would Himself.

  • As I weighed these alternatives my eyes fell on a Salvation Army sign, and the idea I had scouted the day before returned to me with renewed force.

  • As I glanced frantically around, hoping against hope to find some way out of my awful situation, my eyes fell upon a hat-pin, which lay on a table by my side, well within reach of my right hand.

  • Pulling myself together, I started to my feet, when my eyes fell on the envelope, lying beside my plate.

  • I was looking these over when I heard the door open, and, glancing up, my eyes fell upon--Argot!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyes fell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and built; answer for; dark figure; early religion; eyes came; eyes closed; eyes fixed; eyes flashed; eyes like; eyes narrowed; eyes rested; eyes upon; eyes went; favourable variations; fresh food; greatly admired; human responsibility; like true; only wished; open work; other thing; personal immortality; railroad company; stringed instruments; use embassy street address; young lawyer