Eyelids

Eyelids 

1. Eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably —Truman Capote
2. Eyelids fluttering, as if assailed by gnats —Leonard Michaels
3. Eyelids heavy as if from too much dreaming. His dreaming lay like the edges of a deep slumber on the rim of his eyelids —Anais Nin
4. Eyelids … hung askew over her cloudy gray eyes [too weak to be raised or lowered] like broken blinds in the windows of a condemned house —Gerald Kersh
5. Eyelids like thin gray leather —Ken Kesey
6. Eyelids pale like a chicken’s —V. S. Pritchett
7. Eyelids translucent as crepe —Jayne Anne Phillips
8. Eyelids which looked like walnut shells —Julia O’Faolain
9. Eyes … double-lidded like the eyes of the black bull snake —Will Weaver
10. Heavy eyelids … like small, brown, wrinkled egg-shells —Brian Glanville
11. Lids … like furrows in deeply plowed soil —Anon
12. Lower lids as straight as ruler-edges —Dashiell Hammett
13. Eyelids flutter like butterflies that children have impaled alive on pins —Erich Maria Remarque
14. The thick red-lined lids hung over the eyeballs like blinds of which the cords are broken —Edith Wharton