Example sentences of "eye like [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and there , unperturbed , solitary among the crowd , the fulmars ; and out there in the air , huge and unmistakable among the teeming thousands , those unpleasant predators the great black-backed gulls , with their cruel beaks and dead eyes like sharks ' eyes , and their ineffable grace of flight . |
| 2 | Two dogs came in to share her solitude , absurd , dignified little Pekinese who regarded her gravely with their blue-brown eyes like marbles and then lay before the fire and ignored her . |
| 3 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 4 | ‘ Rather too well , ’ said the new Minister for Sport , his eyes like chips of ice . |
| 5 | Sairellen herself had met the constable on her doorstep and kept him there , her arms folded across her impassive chest , her eyes like chips of granite . |
| 6 | He staggered to his feet , swaying a little , his eyes like chips of blue ice . |
| 7 | Violet increasingly aware of prowling men — and , much more alarming , threatening — that she should move , only she could not move : the scowls of the whores , and some mean faces , eyes like flints , that she was poaching . |
| 8 | She talked darkly of witchcraft , of wolves with eyes like opals , and fiery breath which left scorch marks on the ground ; and countercharged . |
| 9 | Have you not seen young girls with eyes like stars ? ’ |
| 10 | Kukuli was Quechua for ‘ beautiful bird ’ and even in the dim light of the carriage I could see she had eyes like stars . |
| 11 | He had always thought that poets grossly overstated things when they talked of eyes like stars . |
| 12 | She nodded , her eyes like stars , her pulse racing at the implication in his words . |
| 13 | Eyes like beetles caught on the bushes . |
| 14 | With her white hair , her eyes like bits of the sky . |
| 15 | Sergeant Joe did n't quite , but he looked as if he did , his eyes like gimlets , his mouth a hard line beneath his moustache . |
| 16 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 17 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His shoulder-length jet-black hair falls dramatically and we see his face clearly for the first time — high-cheek-boned , eyes like slits of molten anthracite . |
| 20 | Afterwards , he would read aloud from the Bible , but with difficulty because the letters on the page seemed to crawl before his eyes like flies , and sometimes were flies . |
| 21 | With that raven hair and eyes like gentians ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Raven hair and eyes like gentians ’ , indeed ! ’ |
| 23 | eyes like pearls sealed under stone . |
| 24 | He picks it up and sees that it 's a tiny silver woman , with hair like spun silk and blue eyes like pieces of the sky come down to earth — ; |
| 25 | ‘ Jessica , ’ she said , her eyes like diamonds . |
| 26 | Nature had touched his face with beauty , giving him finely-sculptured bones beneath a lightly tanned skin , eyes like aquamarines , and hair more silver than gold which curled slightly beneath his tall beaver hat . |
| 27 | Eyes like saucers at those frightful queens we both know and love . |
| 28 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 29 | The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her . |
| 30 | Topaz stared at the ring with the huge ruby surrounded by diamonds , her eyes like saucers . |