lidless eye
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 James Lane Allen
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 Helen Archibald Clarke
Each leaf had an eye, but a hidden, lidless eye.
From The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood
Under a vertical sun, the exposed brain And lidless eye and disemprisoned heart Less certainly would wither up at once 660 Than mind, confronted with the truth of him.
From Men and Women by Charlotte Endymion Porter
