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Meanings of eye-lash in English

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One of the hairs that grows on the eyelid, around the eyes.

        Usage of eye-lash in English
        1
        Anastasia took hers and made it vanish without twitching an eye-lash.
        Changes
        2
        Fate frequently hangs thus on a single hair-aneye-lash, as one may say.
        Bab: A Sub-Deb
        3
        I saw a tear hanging on his eye-lash, mother!
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        4
        But she did not betray her expectations by as much as the tremor of an eye-lash.
        The Custom of the Country
        5
        Finely secret are her glances, as if under every eye-lash there lurked the shade of a meaning.
        Evan Harrington — Volume 4
        6
        Why that light in my eyes, and those thugs ready to slug me if I bat an eye-lash.
        Man of Many Minds
        7
        But the girl never displayed by so much as the quiver of an eye-lash that she had ever seen him before.
        'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
        8
        He listened silently, without the quiver of an eye-lash, or a word of questioning, until his men had pitched their tents.
        Joshua — Volume 1
        9
        For a while he lay motionless, with not even the movement of an eye-lash to indicate consciousness, wrapped in a delicious languor.
        Elusive Isabel
        10
        At all events, we were taught wisely and well, in directions to which the fashionable girls' schools of the day did not lift an eye-lash.
        McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
        11
        The eye is generally large, black, and expressive, with the eye-lashes long.
        Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
        12
        Their cheeks were rouged, their eye-lashes painted, their eyes bright with wine.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        13
        He stood over her; her eye-lashes twitched and she looked steadily at him.
        Selected Polish Tales
        14
        She gave me an arch look, fluttering her eye-lashes in a coquettish manner.
        Level 7
        15
        But his slant eyes contracted until scarcely more than the eye-lashes were revealed.
        The Seventh Noon
        16
        She was silent, and the long eye-lashes came into play while she considered.
        Bluebell / A Novel
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        Eye-lash through the time