Palpebra

Usage examples of eyelid.

Here the impression caused by the light stimulus, upon reaching the medulla along an afferent nerve, is deflected to a motor nerve and, without any conscious control of the movements, the muscles of the eyelid receive the necessary impulse to close.

She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.

Harriet parted her lips as her gaze met his and Benedict felt his eyelids grow heavy.

Supposedly in her bridal tent, lounging in a silken gown among silken cushions with kohl on her eyelids, henna on her fingertips, attar of rose, jasmine, and orange blossom perfuming the air, Zohra instead was standing on the very top of the Tel, dressed in an old caftan and trousers that she had stolen from her father.

For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.

When Clunky winked, his metallic eyelid produced a loud clicking sound.

She wanted to smile and coyly lower her eyelids in a flirtatious moment.

Her eyelids lowered coyly as she averted her face a slight degree, allowing him a view of her saddened countenance.

He was tall, thin, and wasted, with a slight stoop in the shoulders, a pale face, but somewhat blotchy, and disagreeably red about the eyelids, plain features, and a general appearance of languor and flatness, relieved by a sinister expression in the mouth and the dull, soulless eyes.

What deceives you is the epicanthus, a racial variation, consisting in a sort of ridge of integument that runs from the bridge of the nose to the eyelid, and comes down over the inside corner of the eye.

Sunlight danced against her eyelids as Fayne worked his sorcery on her body.

They very likely wanted to, but their gloved hands remained folded on the pommels of their saddles, and neither betrayed impatience by so much as the flicker of an eyelid.

He felt relieved when he saw the crouching Foy retire to a corner of the room, where he stood in plain view, his slitted eyelids nearly closed.

His eyelids, now delicately fuzzed with byrus, rippled as the eyeballs beneath them moved.

When they were partners, Pierce was called the sleepy guy, because of his droopy eyelids, and Gibby was the wide-awake guy.