Eye Expressions, Miscellaneous
Eye Expressions, Miscellaneous
- Excitement widened her eyes like periods at the end of billboard sentences —Tom Robbins
- Expressionless blue eyes … like a pair of glass marbles —Frank Swinnerton
- Eyes … alive, like blue tigers —Cynthia Ozick
- Eyes … as cold and lacking in interest as the eyes of a tortoise —Nadine Gordimer
- Eyes as dead as stale oysters —Raymond Chandler
- Eyes as deep and storyless as the sea —Terry Bisson
- Eyes as doleful and red-rimmed as an old hound’s —Robert Traver
- Eyes, as hard and cold as a frozen lake —Ellen Glasgow
- Eyes … as innocent as if they had entered their sockets a half-hour ago —Ben Hecht
- Eyes … as opaque as jelly beans —Joan Hess
- Eyes … as shy as a wild stag’s —Mary Lee Settle
- Eyes, bland and sad as a dog’s —George Garrett
- Eyes … blank, clouded with anger or grief, like the sky before a snowstorm —James Crumley
- Eyes blind as woodknots —Daniel Berrigan
- Eyes clear and cool as rainwater —George Garrett
- Eyes clear and candid as a winter sky at dawn —Harvey Swados
- Eyes clear as water —John Steinbeck
- Eyes clear as window glass —Ward Just
- Eyes … cloudless as a sky in spring —George Garrett
- Eyes … cold as a crocodile’s —Peter Benchley
- Eyes cold as grey agate —Margaret Mitchell
- Eyes cool as coins —Margaret Millar
- Eyes … dark and cold … like water under ice —Mary Hedin
- Eyes … dark and empty, like open graves —Donald Seaman
- Eyes..dead and cold, like marbles swimming in glass —Paige Mitchell
- Eyes … expressionless as ice cubes —Clive Cussler
- Eyes, fishy and staring like headlights —Harvey Swados
- (When he is excited or amused … his) eyes flare like two cigarette lighters —Bryan Miller, New York Times story about Yves Montand, June 24, 1987
- Eyes flat and vicious like the eyes of a mean dog crouched over a bone —George Garrett
- Eyes frightened as if she expected any moment the stunning blow of a fist —George Garrett
- His eyes glaze over like eggs up —Ira Wood
- Eyes … grow blank as a dropped blind —Edith Wharton
- Eyes … hard as almond shells with a kernel of light —Rumer Godden
- Eyes hard as buttons —Louise Erdrich
- (Her inky) eyes have the look of someone who has been in prison a long time and knows they can send her back —Sharon Olds
- Eyes in which intelligence and comprehension burned like two fixed stars —Edith Wharton
- Eyes keen as talons —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Eyes, like a stern judge’s, seemed to pierce the heart of all questions —Honoré de Balzac
- Eyes like flint-stones —Donald Seaman
- Eyes like glacier lakes —Donald McCaig
- Eyes like marbles, hard and glazed —Borden Deal
- Eyes like needles —Lord Byron
- Eyes like smoking tragedies —Edna O’Brien
- Eyes … like the eyes in the statues blank and unseeing and serene —William Faulkner
- Eyes … like the eyes of a dying man who looks everywhere for healing —James Baldwin
- Eyes … like the eyes of the dead that noon has closed with love’s last kiss —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- (Looked back at him, his black) eyes like two drill bits —Nicholas Proffitt
- Eyes like two steel spikes —Flannery O’Connor
- Eyes looked like the prelude to a scream —Raymond Chandler
- Eyes observant and curious like those of a man caught in a great catastrophe which it is his duty to record —Graham Greene
- (Lying motionless on his back,) eyes staring up at the ceiling like a doll’s —Joseph Heller
- Eyes … steely as a bird’s —Jean Garrigue
- Eyes swollen with rage; they look like hard-cooked eggs —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Eyes that looked as if they might warm up at the right time and in the right place —Raymond Chandler
- Eyes that looked as if they were trying to see beyond the horizon —William Mcllvanney
- Eyes went flat with terror, like a rabbit caught by a car’s headlights —Andrew Kaplan
- Eyes widened with fear, like a cat facing headlights in the night —Z. Vance Wilson
- Eyes … wide open like a deer’s —Colette
- Fury flashing from her eyes like New Year’s Eve sparklers —Dorothea Straus
- Hard eyes … like little metal studs (pinned into the white faces of young men) —John Updike
- His eyes [Mike Wallace’s] grew flat as the eyes of a movie Apache who has just taken a rifle bullet to the stomach —Norman Mailer
The Apache comparison underscores Mailer’s repeated references to Mike Wallace’s resemblance to an Indian.
- Little eyes lit up like a cat’s in a room full of yarn —Thomas Zigal
- Look in his eyes like a glutted steer in a feedlot —Mary Hood
- Mischief crackling like static electricity in her eyes —W. P. Kinsella
- Tired, kindly eyes, like the eyes of a monkey —Elizabeth Bowen
- Wide amazed eyes like an expensive china doll —George Garrett
- Wide penetrating eyes, like black raisins —Rex Reed
The eyes Reed is comparing to black raisins belong to Sophia Loren.
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.