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eyelash

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eyelash
1. any one of the short curved hairs that grow from the edge of the eyelids
2. a row or fringe of these hairs


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"My Huldy could 'a' done it, and not winked an eyelash," observed Mrs.
They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's--a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
Heavy and slow is he by nature, and is not to be brought into battle for the sake of a lady's eyelash or the twang of a minstrel's string, like the hotter blood of the south.
 
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