lidless eye

Example Sentences

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She turned the lamp up as high as it would safely burn so that the huge lidless eye of it would throw its full glare on him and her.

From Bride of the Mistletoe by Allen, James Lane

But breaks her prayer, which is vain, And raises herself again, In pale and barren pride; And casts, with the cruel glance Of her lidless eye, far and wide Hysteric radiance.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

Under a vertical sun, the exposed brain And lidless eye and disemprisoned heart Less certainly would wither up at once Than mind, confronted with the truth of him.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Each leaf had an eye, but a hidden, lidless eye.

From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon

And, dominating it, in the center of that flabby forehead, a focal point for the gaze of the horrified observers, was a single glassy and lidless eye.

From Brood of the Dark Moon by Diffin, Charles Willard