Eye Movements
Eye Movements
- Blinked … as if chasing a fly away —Aharon Megged
- Blinking like a frightened cat —Dan Wakefield
- Blinking like a mechanical toy —Peter Benchley
- Eyeballs bulged like a lizard’s —Paige Mitchell
- Eyes … beginning to bob like fishing corks on the sea —William Diehl
- Eyes bounce like marbles —Norman Mailer
- Eyes closed, almost as if he was silently praying —John Fowles
- Eyes darting like astonished fish —Brian Glanville
- Eyes dart like a shoplifter’s —Hilma Wolitzer
- Eyes dart like swallows —Marge Piercy
- Eyes did a dance like two flies looking for a place to light —Robert Campbell
- (He nodded his head, but his) eyes didn’t move, as if they were weighted in their sockets like the eyes of a doll —Jonathan Valin
- Eyes dilated like an animal’s caught in a trap —V. S. Pritchett
- Eyes dilate like targets on a rifle range, and each word and gesture is emphasized by a blast of cigarette smoke that makes her look like she’s walking in a cumulous cloud —Rex Reed
The actress thus profiled by Reed is Bette Davis.
- Eyes flashed and twinkled … like the lamps of a lighthouse —Anthony Powell
- Eyes flashing like magnifying glasses —H. E. Bates
- Eyes flickered like uncertain lights —Ann Rice
- Eyes flicker like leaves —Marge Piercy
- Eyes fluttered around the room like moths —Donald McCaig
- Eyes hovered about like mosquitoes —C. J. Koch
- (Yonatan’s) eyes narrowed like gunslits —Amos Oz
- (Schwend’s hurt) eyes opened like blooming peonies —Herbert Lieberman
- Eyes opened like windows —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- Eyes … opened wide like a clairvoyant’s —Anais Nin
- Eyes roamed about like jellyfish —H. E. Bates
- Eyes rolled in their sockets like loose marbles —Truman Capote
- Eyes seemed to be clambering frantically, like a pair of blatant prisoners behind her heavy glasses —V. S. Pritchett
- (His little) eyes snapped like two sparks. Like two sparks they glowed in the smoulder of his bearded face —Katherine Mansfield
In this example from her short story, Ole Underwood, Katherine Mansfield demonstrates the effectiveness of repeating a simile.
- Eyes that kept winking and twinkling at each side of his inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual game of peep-bo with that feature —Charles Dickens
- Eyes … twirling around like fruit-flies —Jane Wagner
- Eyes were closed like a man in violent prayer —William Styron
- Furtive little eyes kept darting around in his head like rodents —Thomas Wolfe
- Languidly half closes his eyes, like a cat on a sofa —Anton Chekhov
- Lowered her eyes like a nun beholding a statue —Honore de Balzac
- Narrowing his eyes like someone who knows there’s a mouse in the soup —Peter Meinke
- Rapidly blinking eyes, as though he were caught in a constant sandstorm —Daphne Merkin
- Rolled his eyes like a pair of gambler’s dice —Paige Mitchell
- Tightly shutting her eyes like a shot pheasant falling out of the sky —Kenzaburo Oë
- Wide-spaced eyes floating like sea-slivers above his cheek bones —Julia O’Faolain