She is delicately fair, with fine grey eyes and dark
eyelashes; and from her appearance one would not suppose her more than five and twenty, though she must in fact be ten years older, I was certainly not disposed to admire her, though always hearing she was beautiful; but I cannot help feeling that she possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy, and grace.
As he did so I thought, somehow, that he seemed to have grown taller and straighter, and that the pus-drops seemed to have disappeared from his
eyelashes. Yet how agitated he was, poor fellow!
I will uphold the curve of her
eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.
So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very
eyelashes together.
"Brother Ferrier," he said, taking a seat, and eyeing the farmer keenly from under his light-coloured
eyelashes, "the true believers have been good friends to you.
From all these mute signs and tokens of her presence, he naturally glanced at Barbara herself, who sat as mute as they, shelling peas into a dish; and just when Kit was looking at her
eyelashes and wondering--quite in the simplicity of his heart-- what colour her eyes might be, it perversely happened that Barbara raised her head a little to look at him, when both pair of eyes were hastily withdrawn, and Kit leant over his plate, and Barbara over her pea-shells, each in extreme confusion at having been detected by the other.
Hall," said Christie, faintly smiling through her moist
eyelashes. "Then will you go at once and secure tickets for to-night's boat, and bring them here?
George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and
eyelashes. He simply said:
Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark
eyelashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom.
The Medical Man smoked a cigarette, and watched the Time Traveller through his
eyelashes. The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
Milady possessed that great art, so much studied by women, of looking through her long
eyelashes without appearing to open the lids.
"It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the
eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied."