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- noun Plural form of
eyestring .
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Toplady, I think, wrote ‘While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyestrings crack in death’, and although we should not have complained, I imagine, if we had been brought up on that, it is difficult to believe that the now familiar ‘When my eyes shall close in death’ is not an improvement.
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