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Examples
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He gestured at Annette, who was stirring feebly, eye-lids fluttering, and snapped his fingers at the man beside me.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Rubashov felt behind his eye-lids the familiar flickering of the light.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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Their eyes are shut, but their eye-lids are twitching.
Jarvis Coffin: Ad Agencies Should Pay Attention to Potential Opt-In Legislation in Washington 2009
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And seize your image eye-lids which so hungry grow?
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The flesh upon their limbs was stripped therefrom quicker than thou couldst have closed thy royal eye-lids.
The Bacchantes 2008
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‘Mine eye-lids naught but tears were made to dree:’
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He was now lounging against the wainscoat; with one hand on his side, and the other upon his eye-lids, occupying the space, without using the seat, to the left of Camilla.
Camilla 2008
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The flesh upon their limbs was stripped therefrom quicker than thou couldst have closed thy royal eye-lids.
The Bacchantes 2008
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He abode standing on the same spot five days with their nights, sleepless, mournful, tearful-eyed; distracted, perplexed, pondering his severance from home and family, comrades and friends, with weeping eye-lids and heavy heart.
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I had wrapped up my face, but the sharp, hard snow beat on my eyes — the only exposed part — bringing tears into them, which froze and closed up my eye-lids at once.
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