eyelid
/ˈaɪ.lɪd/ noun B2- A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
Plural eyelids
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Inspector MacDonald smiled, and his eyelid quivered as he glanced towards me.
Holmes sat silent and composed, his eyelids half shut, but every sense on the alert.
“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.”
The crisis was terrible, and a rigid form with twisted limbs, swollen eyelids, and lips flecked with bloody foam, lay on the bed of torture, in place of the intellectual being who so lately rested there.
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