I closed my eyes, yet I knew when their lashes Fringed their cheeks from downcast eyes, And when they turned their heads; And when their garments clung to them, Or fell from them, in exquisite draperies.
And she was pretty, with the prettiness of youth allied to genuine red-gold hair, and the bluest of blue eyes, which looked at you in disconcertingly straight manner from between the longest black lashes you ever saw.
Against this last she cuddled her cheek luxuriously, a shadowy smile softening her lips, her lashes low.
She suffered him, lashes veiling her eyes, her head at rest in the hollow of his shoulder.
He was vastly concerned with the surprising length of her dark silken lashesand the delicate shadows on her warm, rich flesh.
She lowered demure lashes to cloak her confusion, a smile about her lips at once sophisticated and timid: a distractingly pretty woman fully conscious of her allure and of his attraction for her: a vision of provoking promise.
His sweat, rolling off his brow, had run over his eyelids and charged the lashes with tears.
Their eye-lashes are so thin as to be scarcely perceptible, and the eye-brow is but slightly shaded.
Scarcely a night occurred in which some poor wretches did not suffer the lashes of the soldiers for attempting to escape, or for pleading the excuse of old age, or infirmity.
There were tears very near her eyes, but the lids closed and not one fell or even wet the thick lashes resting on her cheeks.
And he saw the sensitive mouth droop a little, and the white lids drooping too until the lashes rested on the bloom of the curved cheek.
He had his will of her lips, her hair, her slim fragrant hands; and now of her tears--for the lashes were wet and the mouth trembled.
Waldron's face also flushed, and an angry sparkle shot from under his lashes in reply to this utterance of hate, but it died out in an instant.
You wicked man," said she with reproachful eyes, the dark silky lashes drooping momentarily on her painted cheeks.
Lavinia sir," came the demure answer accompanied by a drooping of the long lashesand a low curtsey.
She flashed a swift look at him and then the dark silky lashes drooped.
Smiling, though her lashes were damp, Emily accepted the peace offering.
She did not go, however, but remained leaning on the arm of her chair in troubled reverie, her long lashes lowered.
How d' you like the thought of a damned good flogging--fifty lashes laid on hot and strong?
Then a tear flashed upon her lashes and twinkled boldly down, followed by another.
In these days Harry Edgham was so unutterably weary, he drove himself to his work with such lashes of spirit, that he was almost incapable of revolt against any sentence of fate.
The girl was sleeping, her long, dark lashes curled upon her wan cheeks.
Starr had sat through the whole speech with glowing cheeks and lashes wet.
He settled to sleep quite happily with an occasional glad wistful glance toward the door, as the long lashes sank on the white cheeks, for the first sleep the boy had ever taken in a clean, white, soft bed.
When the speeches were over and the uproar of applause had somewhat subsided, Starr turned to her father her face aglow, her lashesstill dewy with tears.
From the string of pearls about her white neck to the dainty point of her slipper she was exquisite and Michael watched her with open admiration; whereat the long lashes drooped shyly over the girl's rosy cheeks and she was mightily pleased.
Bruce could see the dark line made by the lashes on her cheek.
The long dark lashes rested upon her cheek with a delicate contrast like that of the velvety moss when it peeps from the new-fallen snow.
Her own lashes were wet when their eyes met afterwards, and she spoke in a subdued voice.
She was weary with her exertion and settled at once into an easy sitting posture, her head resting against him while she gazed quietly from under her upcurled lashes at the faces grouped about her.
So again he invokes the demon of jealousy to his aid, and goads and lashes himself to his fiend-like work.
A deep sigh of returning consciousness, the long lashes unfolded, and the blue eyes looked wonderingly into his.
The long lashes unclosed, and she started ever so slightly.
The girl shot one glance at him from under the curling lashes as she acknowledged the introduction, and a gleam of merriment darted across the bright face.
The long lashes lay in a dark fringe upon each smooth cheek, which, lovingly kissed by the warm, generous air, was tinged with a faint but inexpressibly charming flush.
She sentenced the iconoclast patriarch to a whipping of two hundred lashes instead of the loss of his eyes.
His usual exercise was to recite the Psalter twice a day, while he flogged himself with both hands at the rate of a thousand lashes to ten psalms.
It's the fashion to be wounded," she said, eyebrows lifted and lashes lowered, with a nervous smile.
Her head was bent, the lashes forming a line with her brow now, and her eyes had the still flame of wonder that they had when she was looking all around a thing and through it to find what it meant.
Now her lashes were closed; again they opened slightly as her gaze roved the semicircle of the horizon.
With a start that brought her up erect, alert, challenging, her lashes flickering, she recalled that Westerling had said at parting that he should see her if war came.
When the lashes lifted, there was still wonder in her eyes--wonder which had become definite tribute to him.
She lowered her lashes before it; before gratitude that made her part appear in a fresh angle of misery.
You need not use euphonious terms," she said without lifting her lashes or any movement except a quick, nervous gesture of her free hand that fell back into place on her lap.
On this point Miss Blair was very emphatic, and her laughing eyes lost their gleam of sunlight and flashed forth a sudden spark which showed deeper depths behind those dark lashes than had appeared at any time before.
A strange shyness had fallen over them, for when Molly tried to meet his eyes, she found that her lashes trembled and fell;--yet this shyness was as delicious as the ecstasy from which it had come.
It's you that talks silliness, not I--as if I were going through life lowering my lashes and looking contemptuous!
When the soul is torn by the lashesof conscience, it needs no other reprover.
Mind you, there's many a man gets fifty lashes that don't deserve them.
Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony.
With it the squall breaks and lashes furiously over us, driving the icy slants of hard sleet to our face, cutting at our eyes in vicious persistence.
A thunder of shattering salt spray lashes over from break of a sea on the foredeck, and they dodge and dive for such poor shelter as the wing of the bridge affords.
At times the rain lashes over and shuts out sight of our neighbours, but we have opportunity to regulate our station in the lengthening intervals between the squalls.
They are ill content with the vile weather and their job in the open, where the rain lashesdown pitilessly, soaking their working clothes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
