He was frowning at the floor as he spoke, and there was a light under his heavy lids that was not often seen there.
Fisher was looking at him with level lids and an immovable manner.
A step sounded on the bare boards; she looked up; and the wounded man raised his weary lids with a gleam of gladness under them; Cecil bent above his couch.
A flutter of breath like a sigh of relief crossed her lips and her lids dropped as the door burst open to a tide of men.
The glazed, open eyes looked as if they hurt; she closed the lids with the tips of her fingers.
His was a sensitive face, thoughtful beyond his childish years, full of weariness when from time to time he closed his eyes, full of dark brooding when the lids lifted again.
She was trembling like a leaf and there was positive distress in her eyes, eyes half covered by lids tense with alarm.
For the first time since the adventure began her heart failed her, and she shuddered perceptibly as her lids fell.
Yea--and rocks as mighty as those through which we came lifted up and shattered before the lids could fall over your blue eyes.
The tears were running down now from my rigid lids and they brought relief to my tortured eyes.
Dimly, as I sank within it, I heard a crystalline chiming; raised my lids once more with a supreme effort.
She looked at him very keenly, through narrowed lids scanning his face and trying to read his intent.
It seemed as if she would wrest from those closed lids the secret of life or death.
His Majesty, flushed with wine, and with drowsy lids drooping over his dulled eyes, had pushed his chair away from the table and was lounging lazily toward Mme.
Her head had drooped and a heavy tear fell from her sunken lids upon her hands.
Nature intended that the eyes and the optic nerve should have as complete a rest as possible and even with the lids lowered some light stimulus, if it is present, finds its way to the nerve fibers.
When this happens the subject is asked to allow the lids to drop and to quietly concentrate the attention on the idea of sleep so as to permit the drowsy feeling gradually to increase.
With two fingers of one hand he pressed back the lids of the doctor's left eye while holding the bottle in the other.
The Phantom's lids contracted and his eyes held a steely glitter as he looked down at the man in the chair.
Helen's lids contracted as she followed his movements.
Luckily, the lids were fairly sound, and none of us went in beyond the waist.
A devious track, all curved and serpentine Round snow-lids superfine.
The cooker-boxes were of Venesta board, with hinged lids secured by chocks and overlapped by japara cloth to exclude as much drift-snow as possible.
The bridged crevasses were now entirely hidden and many weak lids were found.
On the way the sledge was blown sideways on to the lids of many wide crevasses, which, fortunately for the party, were strong at that season of the year.
Her eyes were closed, but the lids atoned by their rose-leaf texture and long black fringe.
Her eyes were not quite shut, but the lids were stiff and immovable.
Her oval cheeks were more than usually luminous from exercise; her eyes were bright tawny brown, thelids shaped in curves, like the edges of a leaf.
Gradually the lids would redden, a tear or two would drop, her dear old lips would quiver--and I had succeeded.
Let me see them," and he threw back the lids in turn, washing out each eye as if it had been a marble-top table.
These glands supply a thick, oily material which greases the edges of the lids and prevents their adhering together, and likewise prevents the overflow of the tears upon the cheek.
Lance looked at the corpse-like figure with the wide-open eyes and a flicker of the lids now and then to show that she was alive, and swallowed a lump in his throat.
Tom, coming out of the bunk house, studied him with narrowed lids as he came walking leisurely down to the corral.
Tom used to study Duke through half-closed lidsand the smoke of a cigarette, and wonder which side of the family had a yellow streak; not the Lorrigan side, so far as Tom could judge.
The rider looked at Lance with red-veined eyes, the inflamed lids showing sleepless nights.
Here I gif you one, for between these lids (he meant covers) is many books in one.
Then the gaze withdrew slowly, and the lids closed; as though a bird, flying softly through the twilight, had passed beneath the low-hung leaves over its nest.
Heavy black leading above and below, accentuated by broad shadows on the lids of dark blue, make them look like burnt holes a short distance away.
The line of the upper lids and the eyebrows should be extended in almost every case, to give an effect of breadth to the eyes.
I showed her that I wanted a hammer and chisel with which to take off the lids of the boxes, and she brought them.
At length the feat was accomplished, and I laid the lids of the boxes, which had been reserved for this purpose, across the joists, and made a floor upon which to lay the goods more than once specified in these sketches.
The lids removed, each article was carefully lifted from its repository and placed on chairs.
There were all things that heart could desire in this kitchen, saucepans with lids that took on and off, a flat-iron and a rolling-pin.
One day, wandering about this strange old rambling place, I discovered the hidden door of a secret room, and in this room were many iron-bound chests, and when I raised the heavy lids I saw that each chest was full of gold.
A deep perpendicular incision was made down each corner of the eyes; the lids were lifted and the balls removed by cutting the optic nerve and the muscles.
I took the men into the run and showed them the chests, opening the little one which I had stocked with small-arms, and lifting the lids of two or three of the others.
The shade was gone from over the place of the eyes, and down the seared face and among the rags of blistered skin rolled streams of horrible great tears, forced from the raw lids by scorching smoke.
Nevertheless I observed that the eyes under the lids were very sharp indeed, following my grandfather's back, and traversing the shelf where he had left the photograph; yet when he brought the brandy, he had to rouse her by a shake.
The lids of several were open, and the wondering girl saw that they were filled to the brim with money, that gleamed bright and yellow in the flaring, uncertain light of the solitary candle.
She kept her lids lowered persistently, not daring to meet Dorian's ardent gaze.
Ranged around the walls were a dozen strong cedar chests heaped to the lids with Spanish gold coin.
The light was so distressing to his eye that the lids were closed as soon as it was over.
Twenty-fifth day, pulsation of lids at sound of low voice.
Quick closing of lids at new impressions of sound (86).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
