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Example sentences for "his eyes"

  • Terry's smile was irreproachable, but I did not like the look in his eyes--it was like a creature about to spring.

  • We had our glasses out; even Terry, setting his machine for a spiral glide, clapped the binoculars to his eyes.

  • I could see it in his eyes as he lay there, looking at the long blue rollers slipping by, and fingering that impressive mustache of his.

  • You could see by the gleam in his eyes that he took in the whole scene, and considered not only the people in the ring, but the people in the amphitheatre also, to be his tormentors.

  • He had stood up when Saint Jago came in, and he was watching the man and the animal with his soul in his eyes.

  • His eyes glittered in their deep sockets when she related her extremity and the priest's proposal, and his small shrunken body quivered with excitement as he answered: "Saints and angels!

  • And he ruminated long before the portrait of a white-haired man with black eyebrows and a pink, painted sort of smile that seemed to contradict the black warning in his eyes.

  • There burst and fell into his private room a man in the filthiest rags, with a greasy squash hat still askew on his head, and a shabby green shade shoved up from one of his eyes, both of which were glaring like a tiger's.

  • His eyes do look queer," cried the young woman, strongly moved.

  • The answer which came back brought a flash of wonderment to his eyes.

  • Winifred looked comely and distinguished in his eyes, under the charm of this heightened vivacity.

  • His eyes--notably direct, confident eyes--were of a grey which had in it more brown than blue.

  • The unamiable glance of his eyes was on the instant surcharged with suspicion.

  • His eyes rolled in the wildness of his terror.

  • He was unaware of the machinery of orders that started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw an officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving his hat.

  • Then there appeared upon the glazed vacancy of his eyes a diamond point of intelligence.

  • In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.

  • The despair of the lost was in his eyes as he glanced back at them.

  • His eyes sparkled, and a dusky pink shone through his clear olive cheeks.

  • On such occasions his colour would heighten, his eyes gleam, and he could speak with an eloquence which would carry his audience with him.

  • His cheeks and forehead were clammy, his eyes glazed, and his whole expression altered.

  • As the years passed, however, and as the worthy Professor's stock of knowledge increased, for knowledge begets knowledge as money bears interest, much which had seemed strange and unaccountable began to take another shape in his eyes.

  • All her life she had searched the faces of men for the look that lay in his eyes.

  • The devil is loose again," whispered Olaf Oleson, as he saw Eric dancing a moment later, his eyes blazing.

  • Eric Hermannson rose to his feet; his lips were set and the lightning was in his eyes.

  • The blow stung his cheeks and the soapy water flew in his eyes, and he involuntarily began rubbing them with his hands.

  • Before the desk stood Asa Skinner, shouting of the mercy and vengeance of God, and in his eyes shone a terrible earnestness, an almost prophetic flame.

  • Near the top they entered a tiny little room, with two windows from which you could see over the whole country.

  • I think it's very good for different sorts to go together.

  • There he was well known to everybody, for he was not only a large subscriber, but he used to go and tell the children stories of an afternoon.

  • One day he was sitting on one of the outer branches of the tree, looking southwards after his home.

  • He thought he was waiting for North Wind, but she did not come.

  • He turned to Mr. Raymond with a question in his eyes.

  • Each went by himself, walking slowly with bent shoulders and his eyes fixed on the ground.

  • That he could not bear, and the tears came in his eyes.

  • But the coachman had a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes.

  • It was a surprised and chastened Tarzan who opened his eyes to consciousness a few minutes later.

  • Narrow and black was the corridor; but long use of his eyes in the Stygian blackness of the jungle nights had given to the ape-man something of the nocturnal visionary powers of the wild things with which he had consorted since babyhood.

  • His eyes, his ears and his keen nostrils were ever on the alert.

  • You are not--" he came forward and stood over her, with his heart in his eyes.

  • He had a curious way of stopping when he saw her, as if she just took the wind out of his sails, so to speak, and then of whipping off his hat, if anything with sails can wear a hat, and going up to her with his heart in his eyes.

  • He began to walk up and down by the spring with his hands in his pockets and a far-away look in his eyes.

  • His eyes lighted on Miss Patty's face and stayed there.

  • Then there was the look she had seen in his eyes for a brief instant when she had found herself locked in his cabin on the occasion that he had revealed to her Larry Divine's duplicity.

  • His face was flushed, his eyes sparkled, a smile lighted his regular features.

  • De Lord will pervide," said Sam, rolling up his eyes piously.

  • He was not a remarkably fluent reader, and was in the habit of reading in a sort of recitative half-aloud, by way of calling in his ears to verify the deductions of his eyes.

  • Mr. Shelby was fairly overcome, and the tears rose to his eyes.

  • Sam, rolling up his eyes with a volume of meaning.

  • The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the heart.

  • He spoke quietly and bowed his head a little, but there was still an uneasy feeling in his eyes as he looked at her.

  • By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow less and vanish.

  • The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes.

  • He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes.

  • For the Knight of the Cumberland had turned the black horse's head and was riding, like Ivanhoe, in front of the nobles and ladies, his eyes burning up at them through the holes in his white mask.

  • But not once did Mart turn his eyes, much less his face, toward the corner where they were--not once, for I watched him closely.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "his eyes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appropriation bills; boarding school; his heart; his own; his son; his wife; hissing sound; historic interest; historical documents; historical interest; historical literature; historical materialism; historical novel; historical novels; historical painter; historical science; historical studies; historical times; historical work; history tells; large town; previous experience; specie payments; state enterprises; the seventh; toward midnight