10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-SHUT»
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half-shut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
half-shut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Back-Story: First Time Tales by the Stranger Next Door
We soon learned the old politician was correct when he said, "One must enter
marriage with eyes wide open and live it with eyes half shut." But what if eyes half
shut cannot keep the differences at bay? We either quit immediately -- or stay.
Jennifer H. R. Cutler,
2008
2
Half the House: My Life in and Out of Jerusalem
The man next to me has a diseased half-shut eye, some of his teeth are missing,
some are discolored, yet when he smiles a spark in his one good blue eye lights
up and for a moment he looks like Paul Newman. He tells me about his longings
...
3
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ...
What dreams have we dreamed, and what visions have we seen, lying idly with
half-shut eyes in some ' greenwood shaw,' sheltering from July's noonday sun,
while we seemed to hear 'airy tongues that syllable men's names,' in the husky ...
4
Philip Larkin: A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin
Half-shut 1 By staring at your eyes (hazel, half-shut) Half-submerged 1 Their
churches half-submerged in leaf. They lie Half-tight 1 Black-gowned,
unbreakfasted, and still half-tight Half-turned 1 Half-turned to Europe, lonely
northern daughter, ...
Half-Shut. Door. "L. not tomorrow, I'll return the day after," he repeated time and
again, "Delhi is not far." Everytime he said it, she would laugh an unsure laughter.
Pakistan had been agreed to. A dream had come true. Durdana, a devotee of ...
Kartar Singh Duggal,
1991
6
The
Half-vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics
On the contrary, Hawthorne's avowed admiration for Eliot would seem to be as
strong as ever: "(with my eyes of sense half shut, and those of the imagination
widely opened,) I used to see the holy Apostle of the Indians, with the sunlight ...
7
The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the ...
His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were
taking aim at something with an invisible gun. He had a pipe in his mouth, and he
took it out, and, after slowly blowing all his smoke away and looking hard at me ...
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Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
Lledffromi, v. a. (lledffrom) To act fretfully. Lledffvdd, »./ (ffydd) Slight faith, slight
reliance Lledffyddiaw, t>. (lledffydd) To have slight faith. Lledgaead, a. (caead)
Half shut, half closed. Lledgais, ». m. (cais) A slight attempt, or essay. Lledgaled,
a.
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Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early ...
In unmistakable analogy to the sun's smiling down on "the half-shut flowers," Mrs.
Mason's pedagogical function is to re-create her own mode of vigilant self-
awareness within her protegees and to make them incubate her own relentless ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-SHUT»
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half-shut is used in the context of the following news items.
Woman Forces to Strip Recalls
Her left eye is permanently half-shut. She was sitting under the same arbor of the well-muscled grapevines where she lay in July 2014, ... «The Citizen, Jul 15»
Spaces That Lie Between Us
There are a few half-shut eyes heavily pressed onto viewfinders of telescopes, there are some naked eyes wide open with wonder, but mostly, ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
British women 'can't look like Jennifer Lawrence during the summer …
... were filling up with women frantically trying to find something floaty and cool that wouldn't make them look like a pair of half-shut curtains. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Don't scoff at hipster coffee shops. They've been around for 300 years
... coffee house, her commodity of choice is introduced as: “Coffee, (which makes the politician wise/And see thro' all things with half-shut eyes). «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Pastor Benton comes to town
He sat down at the small St. Louis Bread Co. table in the early morning, just as the sun was peeking through the half-shut blinds. «The Edwardsville Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Cutting the cord
... are nodding back against the wall and my eyelids are in the half-shut sleeping position. If we tried to watch anything, I'd miss half the show. «Colorado Springs Independent, Jun 15»
Sam Shepard arrested on DUI charge in Santa Fe
A booking photo released by the jail showed a disheveled-looking Sam Shepard, with his heavily hooded eyes half-shut and his long grey hair ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
A conductor who's taught classes at Google and Goldman Sachs …
One of the towering figures of 20th century music, Richard Strauss' conducting style shows eyelids half-shut, and very small and monotonous ... «Business Insider Australia, May 15»
Gotta Catch 'Em Brawl
“I'm running on like four hours of sleep right now, man,” 909's artistic director Ryan Morris meekly stated, with his eyes half-shut as he lay ... «Highlander Newspaper, May 15»
Insane Clown Posse find faith on new album 'Lost'
He's just cued up ICP's new album, the unrelenting "The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost," and he's nearly expressionless, eyes half-shut, as the ... «The Detroit News, Apr 15»