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Example sentences for "eyes rested"

  • The other man's eyes rested on him with something like contempt.

  • Mrs. Wentworth's eyes rested on his face for a moment.

  • Keith's eyes rested on him, and his face paled a little with growing resolution.

  • The telltale color rushed up into her cheeks as Mrs. Lancaster's eyes rested on her, and as it mounted, those blue eyes grew a little more searching.

  • Madeleine von Wildenau's eyes rested on the girl with a searching expression, as if she saw her now for the first time.

  • The countess had experienced all this in the brief space during which Freyer's eyes rested on her.

  • The burgomaster's eyes rested with a look of compassion upon the Christ of Dore and the Christ personated by Freyer, as it hovered before his memory--and Freyer bore the test.

  • His daughter's eyes rested on him with suspicious keenness.

  • Soon after, my eyes rested upon a shining object; it was the gilded vane of the little capilla, and beneath glistened the white vails of the hacienda, bathed in the milky light of the moon.

  • Though the cliffs on each side were perfectly vertical, the gorge had a considerable inclination; and the instant my eyes rested upon it, it occurred to me that the precipice at this point could be scaled!

  • Such rude appeal was wrung from my lips by the dread spectacle on which my eyes rested.

  • Witham his companion's eyes rested on, but his face was expressionless.

  • As it happened, the elder lady's eyes rested on the picture, and a faint flush of annoyance crept into the face of the girl.

  • Winston his companion's eyes rested on, but his face was expressionless.

  • Herdegen's eyes rested on the twain with some little wrath; then he hastily got up!

  • The old grandam's eyes rested on him as though he were a dear son, and Master Pernhart would come close to him now and again, and stroke his arm.

  • Morning came, and I went to the Bible for my orders for the day; my eyes rested on these words: 'Be content with what ye have.

  • For a long while it has been my habit to be entirely guided for the day by the first verse in the Bible on which my eyes rested.

  • Virginia's eyes rested on Margaret Brice, who was seated at the head of the bed, smoothing the pillows The strength of Stephen's features were in hers, but not the ruggedness.

  • My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library!

  • The little man's eyes rested admiringly, and not without emotion, on the salient features of the tall clergyman.

  • Then I remembered, and swung my hat to my knee, as my eyes rested on a little wooden cross.

  • I lounged in a hide chair beside the stove, and each object my eyes rested on stirred up memories that were painful now.

  • I have," and the speaker's eyes rested on me with a faint and yet kindly twinkle in them.

  • I walked without feeling the ground as I trod on it; I looked about me with no distinct consciousness of what the objects were on which my eyes rested.

  • My mind was far away from the objects on which my eyes rested.

  • I looked about me again, with no distinct consciousness of what the objects were on which my eyes rested.

  • Dan's eyes rested hungrily on the small dark head outlined against the tender light.

  • It was as though the memory of her was swept away by the turn of the blue wings on which my eyes rested.

  • Where mountain and sky mingled, indefinable in the night, my eyes rested, but my mind plunged on.

  • Mr. Fairchilds' eyes rested for an instant on the delicate, sensitive countenance of the girl.

  • Strickland's eyes rested on him, and there was in them a malicious expression.

  • I noticed that now and then his eyes rested on me with a faint smile of amusement.

  • Once or twice Mrs. Strickland's eyes rested on him somewhat anxiously.

  • As he spoke, Chamberlain's eyes rested first on Mélanie, then on Agatha, whom he had not seen before.

  • But more and more frequently her eyes rested wistfully on James, mutely asking him for help.

  • As she spoke, Agatha's eyes rested questioningly on the youth who, ever since she had revived from her faint of exhaustion, had teased her memory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became chief; children under; comparison with; dear little; drink offerings for the; eyes and; eyes came; eyes fixed; eyes flashed; eyes like; eyes narrowed; eyes opened; eyes right; eyes twinkled; eyes upon; eyes went; glass painting; made them; mean that; minister plenipotentiary; national service; one word; other animals; poor health; pure heart; solemnly swear