Eyestring

Eye´string`


n.1.The tendon by which the eye is moved.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The long and the short of it
(1.3.11-27) Innogen imagines that she would have strained her "eyestrings" to the breaking point as Posthumous receded from view.
Diamonds, maidens, Widow Dido, and Cock-a-diddle-dow
He tries to forget Anne by 'hal[ing] these balls until [his] eyestrings crack / From being pull'd and drawn to look that way' (6.15-16).
'My breasts sear'd': the self-starved female body and A Woman Killed with Kindness
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