Example sentences of "[prep] eye like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always thought that poets grossly overstated things when they talked of eyes like stars . |
| 2 | The nice investigation recently of a erm pair of species of gesophola , these are Hawaiian gesophola , in which one species , the males , have sort of eyes like crabs stuck out almost on stalks . |
| 3 | She talked darkly of witchcraft , of wolves with eyes like opals , and fiery breath which left scorch marks on the ground ; and countercharged . |
| 4 | Her arm was draped elegantly across his shoulders , and she was looking at him with eyes like headlights , as though she were starving and he were a cream cake . |
| 5 | Have you not seen young girls with eyes like stars ? ’ |
| 6 | Now she knew who it was with eyes like Sarah Morey 's . |
| 7 | I would write letters glowing with warmth and tenderness , poems as though to a damsel with a dulcimer , gentle cadences for gentle ladies with eyes like emerald . |
| 8 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 9 | She held a candle aloft and saw the other child looking at her with eyes like saucers . |
| 10 | And yet — ’ his voice grew gentle ‘ — a girl with eyes like smoke , a provocative nose , and a mouth designed for kissing — ’ |