underlids

The elf let the Prophet's words settle on the assembled officers, then hooded his eyes with the white, translucent underlids of his people and stepped slightly away from the circle surrounding the chieftain.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

(I said: "her underlids are rather like myrtle"), to vie with the nine?

American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

The underlids of these were pencilled with countless small lines, which, with the weary, dull eyes, seemed quite out of keeping with the otherwise keenly intellectual face.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

"They fee-ee-eel! the tru-u-u-uth!" roared the two friends, raising with difficulty their underlids, grown heavy, beneath dull, bleary eyes.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

It had scratched its snub nose and bumpy forehead, and it stared up at its mother with blue eyes, which seemed to have no underlids so fat were its cheeks.

Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

It had scratched its snub nose and bumpy forehead, and it stared up at its mother with blue eyes, which seemed to have no underlids so fat were its cheeks.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

He was tallish, grey-bearded and somewhat stooping, with the slack figure of the sedentary man who would be stout if he were not dyspeptic; and his cautious grey eyes with pouch-like underlids had straight black brows like his daughter's.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

The voice broke and faltered, and a spasm of mother-anguish wrung the firm mouth, and as a slow tear dimmed each of her underlids and splashed on the white _guimpe_ she put out her hand blindly, and the sympathetic little Frenchwoman took it in both her own.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Therefore, she looked sharply at the man between the tangled masses of the hair that could not be kept pinned up, and saw two great slow tears ooze over his thick underlids, and glitter as they hung there, and then fall.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Great tears brimmed the white, darkly-fringed underlids, and ran over.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897