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Like a child that never knew but love Whom words of wrath surprise.

- E. B. BROWNING.

Shining eyes, like antique jewels set in Parian statue-stone. - IBID.

Eyes like the summer's light blue sky. - BULWER-LYTTON.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.'- IBID.

His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench's looks. ROBERT BURTON.

Eyes like the dawn of day. F. A. BUTLER.

Brilliant eyes, swift-darting as the stars. - CARLYLE.

Twin violets by a shady brook were like her eyes. ALICE CARY.

Eyes, shining like thin skins full of blood. IBID.

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision.STEPHEN CHARNOCK.

Those dry eyes of his shining more like poisoned stones than living tissue. JOSEPH CONRAD.

Expectant yellow eyes, like a cat watching the preparation of a saucer of milk. IBID.

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O my love has an eye,
Like a star in the sky.

- BARRY CORNWALL.

Honest eyes

.. Blue like the

tropic skies. -D'ANNUNZIO.

Eyes, gleaming and sparkling like lizards' eyes in the crevices of old walls. DAUDET.

Her eyes grew bright and large, Like springs rain-fed that dilate their AUBREY DE VERE.

marge.

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Eyes like live coals. - DUMAS, PÈRE. Her eyes like shadows in the light of torches on the Mount of Doom. MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories, they are strongest for things a long way off. - GEORGE ELIOT.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. — EMERSON.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy. — IBID.

But oh, to see his solar eyes

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A burning eye, yellow and phosphoric like the eye of a crocodile or a lion. GAUTIER.

The most dazzling stars are pebbles without lustre beside the diamonds of her eyes. JOSEPH A. DE GOBINEAU.

His eyes were like the eyes of doves when washed by the dews of the morning. GOLDSMITH.

Mary with her cheerful eyes,
Like heartsease where a dew drop lies.
EDMUND GOSSE.

Azure eyes, like stars upon the river's brink. - IBID.

Her eyes, fair eyes, like to the purest lights,

That animate the sun, or cheer the day; In whom the shining sunbeams brightly play,

Whiles fancy doth on them divine delights. ROBERT GREENE.

Her eyes two twinkling stars in winter nights. — IBID.

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Like heaven's bright lamps in matchless beauty shining. - IBID.

His eyes were grey,

Like Titan in a Summer day.

- IBID. Eyes like violets steep'd in dew. J. C. GUTHRIE.

RICH HEINE.

Ambiguous

blue eyes like the china dog on the mantel piece. — O. HENRY.

Eyes frosty blue, like a winter sea that is made bright, not warm, by the - MAURICE HEWLETT.

sun.

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Dreaming, wistful eyes,
Dark and deep as mysterious skies,
Seen from a vessel at sea. - IBID.
Wistful eyes,

As luminous and tender as Kotri's
twilight spies.
- IBID.
His eyes. . . deep sunk beneath his
lowering brows,

Like caverns by a moonlit sea.

-R. M. MILNES.

Eyes... overflow like two cups filled above the brim. - HUGO.

Sweet eyes . . . tender as the deeps in yonder skies. - JEAN INGelow.

The sophist's eye, Like a sharp spear, went through her utterly,

Her eyes, like moonbeams glowing. Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging. - HAFIZ.

- KEATS.

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