eye-lid

With dad and Annette, nobody would have batted an eye-lid.

Court Out « A Fly in Amber 2010

His tears were also exhausted; they no longer collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry.

Les Miserables 2008

Because myasthenia can go into remission, doctors say the eye-lid surgery Mr. Purdon had can sometimes overcorrect the lids and make them appear to bulge.

Medical Specialties Hit by a Growing Pay Gap 2008

My face is foul with weeping; and on my eye-lid is the shadow of death.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Today when I woke, it had spread to my eyelid, which was so swollen my eye-lid was half shut even when I was awake and with my eyes open.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

I am convinced that an effective deterrent is necessary for those unscrupulous landowners who, by the flash of an eye-lid, want to evict people.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

One of the men pulled out a gun, and at close range fired at Mr Rabe, striking him in the upper eye-lid.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

I seemed powerless to move a muscle or twitch an eye-lid.

Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events H. DeF. [Illustrator] Patterson

A black velvet bodice and a flower, a rose or sometimes heliotrope, and if she had not had such large protruding eyes -- Oh you ought to have seen them, Johanna, at least this large -- "Effi laughingly pulled down her right eye-lid --" she would have been simply a beauty.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

The slumberer started -- the envious eye-lid shrouded no more its lustrous jewel -- the wondering eyes dilated, as they met her lover's -- and she murmured something with that sweet Venetian lisp, in which the Greek women breathe their Italian.

A Love Story A Bushman