Example sentences of "eye [be] like [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He is full of chat now , feeling fine , gossiping to Bobby about old friends , his eyes bright and pinned ; his eyes are like twins who are also friends .
2 Its eyes are like glass beads — you know , like a toy 's .
3 His eyes were like meat-hooks , tearing into her .
4 His eyes were like splinters as he glowered down at her , yet in their depths she could see the pain that tormented him .
5 The brown hair , the dark brows and , when he took her hand , the open brown depths of her eyes were like molasses drained from white sugar .
6 I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers .
7 FitzAlan 's eyes were like daggers , but Isabel faced him unflinchingly .
8 When she woke , her eyes were like fires in the depths of the deepest wells .
9 He was so near to death that even his eyes were like caves into the underworld .
10 He had discovered when reading A Burnt-Out Case the sentence , ‘ The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life ’ .
11 The eyes were like flint .
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