But while the
eye of the bee-hunter did not neglect his blooming companion, it scowled angrily, resembling more the aspect of the sullen and retreating bear than the soft intelligence of a favoured suitor.
Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his
eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent back from its cold and shining surface.
The fresh boyish face was gone, the tenderness of the
eyes, the sweetness of the mouth with its curves and pictured corners.
Hour after hour she sat in the dusky room, with one ray of light on her book, reading to the boy, who lay with shaded
eyes silently enjoying the only pleasure that lightened the weary days.
Dempsey had a glacial
eye, a dominating slit of a mouth, an indestructible jaw, a complexion like a belle's and the coolness of a champion.
"A friend!" repeated the sage, on whose brow a dark frown settled, imparting a portion of that severity which had rendered his
eye so terrible in middle age.
His
eyes lighted on a big headline, with a brief five lines under it.
When the young leader lay in the snow and moved no more, One
Eye stalked over to the she-wolf.
"This communication," continued the procureur, in that cold and decisive tone which seemed at once to preclude all discussion, "will, we are sure, meet with your approbation." The
eye of the invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind; he listened, nothing more.
But, the latter application was by no means a success, causing Mr Fledgeby to scream, and to cry out, 'Oh my
eye! don't slap me!
She involuntarily closed her
eyes again, but in vain; she fancied that she still saw through the rosy lids that gnome's mask, one-eyed and gap-toothed.
Tantor cocked a questioning
eye at the white giant, but receiving a warning word let Meriem approach.