Example sentences of "around her eyes " in BNC.

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1 Jay 's fleeting lust metamorphosed — practically — into interest and friendship ; sometimes on the way home , lyrically drunk and alone , she would fantasise about kissing Lucy , stroking the fine lines etched around her eyes and on her brow , nuzzling into her throat and shoulders … .
2 The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes .
3 Martha paused with her , noticing that Hyacinth was sweating heavily and her skin , normally plump and smooth , looked oddly withered and sunken around her eyes .
4 She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck .
5 Grace Taylor , 56 , went to Erian for a face lift and to have lines around her eyes smoothed out .
6 There were fine lines around her eyes .
7 She started to work the cream into the skin around her eyes , staring straight ahead at her reflection as she did it .
8 She powdered her face in her mirror and reaffirmed the dark pencil around her eyes .
9 There was no disguising the strain around her eyes , or the plum-coloured shadows beneath them .
10 Stella moved , and as the light caught her Merrill noticed that on the fine tanned skin there was an etching of small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes , but she was still a very beautiful woman .
11 She looked very tired : there were puffy smudges around her eyes , and bracketing her mouth were tiny lines like the first cracks in plaster .
12 It was not her age — she told Edward within minutes that she was twenty-seven — and it was not the effect of cares or worry , the lines around her eyes were laughter lines .
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