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Example sentences for "eyelash"

Lexicographically close words:
eyed; eyeglass; eyeglasses; eyeholes; eyeing; eyelashes; eyeless; eyelet; eyelets; eyelid
  1. She nodded to Mr. Moulton, dropped an almost imperceptible eyelash at Lydia, and, ignoring the others, strode off belligerently towards the Place Bellecour.

  2. Humiliated and furious with herself, she vowed on the spot that she would never again lift an eyelash to fascinate him.

  3. Then that other put out his trunk and in the twinkling of an eyelash abolished the ring, saying: "The appointed time has come.

  4. Thou hast cursed me already by the down-dropped eyelash and the uplifted chin.

  5. I--" A mocking chuckle seemed to break from the ground at their feet, and in the flicker of an eyelash a shadow lifted up out of the scrub-encumbered level.

  6. Brought to a standstill on the one line of attack, she diverged to another without the quiver of an eyelash to betray her discomfiture.

  7. When, presently, according to arrangement, he rose to sing a duet with Margaret, no one could have possibly told by so much as the lifting of an eyelash that he knew there was an enemy of his in the back of the room.

  8. You could not have told by the flicker of an eyelash that they knew where the Boy had gone.

  9. Her eyebrows were like two leaves of the ímbo tree; the outer angle of the eye acute and slightly extended; the ball of the eye full, and the upper eyelash slightly curling upwards.

  10. She pressed his hand, and a tear that had gathered on Die Vernon's eyelash found its way to the young man's cheek.

  11. Martin: Dear Mistress Joyce, if I had the world to offer you, I would sit by the road and break it with a pickax rather than change a single eyelash in Young Gerard's lids.

  12. Not knowing what else to do, they at last clustered above him about the gap, filling it so with their pretty faces that the farmer found room for not so much as an eyelash when he arrived with his bread.

  13. To his own death he would have gone with no eyelash trembling.

  14. What were these men whose iron discipline bound so fast that they could be pelted to death, and no eyelash seem to quiver?

  15. I looks at Cherokee; his face is as ca'm as a Injun's; he's too finely fibred a sport to so much as let a eyelash quiver.

  16. Not an eyelash quivered, nor was there any perceptible movement in his sturdy chest.

  17. The judge was looking at her; he had not moved; nor had an eyelash stirred, but the rest of that sentence had stuck in her throat, and she found herself standing as immovably quiet as he.

  18. He watched Patsy's quiet untroubled breathing, the slow droop and quick recover of her eyelash as she grew a little drowsy.

  19. Though a mere gnat, it sat on the very eyelash of society and seemed a monster.

  20. The thing is plainly demonstrated; and in France, my dear, I have to an eyelash the proper person for you.

  21. One would suppose that such a foreign substance as a "swallow-stone" in the eye would be much more inconvenient than the eyelash which it was destined to remove.

  22. That night they packed their belongings, and not once by the blink of an eyelash did Judy or Nance show what they felt about leaving Queen's forever.

  23. With the Goddess of War sitting among them at this moment, nobody dared betray by the flick of an eyelash that there were others whose tempers were rather uncertain.

  24. They never blinked an eyelash when I told them about the communion cup.

  25. He didn't come near us until this afternoon, and he hasn't by the blink of an eyelash referred to our unfortunate contretemps.

  26. Not even her eyelash quivered as her steady gaze held his own.

  27. Without the tremor of an eyelash her search was answered by a look as steady and firm as her own.

  28. This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid, which bends the points of the hairs of the eyelash upon the ball of the eye, which perpetually stimulate it into painful sensation.

  29. How had she fallen only this afternoon, supposing herself high-born of great institutions, to find herself in the turning of an eyelash merely the creature of an ugly little rattletrap!

  30. Angélique had noted every change of muscle, every curve of lip and eyelash as he spake, and she felt more puzzled than before.

  31. He nodded, and his long left eyelash flickered.

  32. The two men opposite were lolling against the doorpost, and the moon, rising behind our house, while still leaving the street in shadow, had just caught their faces, so that their every eyelash was visible.

  33. Mrs. Tiffany merely flickered an eyelash at the assumption of privilege which this implied.

  34. Eleanor never flicked an eyelash as she announced: "I should be very glad.

  35. The most unguarded lifting of an eyelash in the fluttering battalion was sufficient to put her on the lookout.

  36. I never moved an eyelash and didn't seem to understand at all till he handed me what he had written.

  37. He just folded his arms and never wiggled an eyelash while I took some of the grades like the Empire State Express.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyelash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.