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Usage examples of lips.

The muffled words of forgiveness on the lips of John Huss at the stake .

A piercing tinkle from down the hill caused her to draw her elbows in, and close her lips even more tightly.

She had never seen Heracles, and never mentioned him, but drew her lips tightly together and looked in another direction when his name came into conversation.

On the terrace of the Dome, beset behind the clattering bastion of her own Sainte Chapelle, the young George Washington read with silently moving lips, broke wind pensively and looked around to see if she had attracted notice.

She blew her nose, and returned to the page before her, but her lips did not move, for she did not hear another word of the reading.

His smile seemed to draw her lips together, her upper lip caught under her lower.

Otto often disappeared at odd moments, as some children do given a new word, or a new idea, or a gift, and they are found standing alone in some private corner, lips moving, as they search for the place where this new thing belongs, to get it firmly in place and part of themselves before they return to adult assaults, and the incredible possibility that they may one day themselves be the hunters.

Before they reached the block they had set out from, Otto had looked at his watch a half-dozen times, and drawn only one response which he turned over in his mind, not to try to understand it immediately, face to face, for itself, nor the source from which it came, but fitting it to the lips of Gordon, through whom, though he did not know it, nor plan it so, he would one day overtake himself.

He must remember this arrangement: left eyebrow raised, eyelids slightly drawn, lips moistened, parted, down at corners.

Then with a sursum corda on his lips in farewell to the image abandoned in the mirror, he undressed again and lay down on his sweated mattress.

Left eyebrow up, lips moistened, slightly parted and curled, he waited while a producer approached, welcoming hand extended.

The face had tufts of hair at chin and lips, so separately white that they looked to have been stuck there a moment before.

The sight of her had startled him: looking out at nothing, her lips silent and almost smiling while the rest chattered, her body still where everyone else shifted, conscious only in herself while all the others were only self-conscious.

He had taken out the cigarette package and put the last remaining cigarette between his lips, which were dry.

He had forgotten the casual stance, the raised eyebrows, lips moistened, slightly parted.