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1  I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees.
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2  He stared at me for a moment with his mild, bulging eyes.
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3  He was a lank, bony, yellow-faced man, with big intense eyes.
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4  To keep the eyes so long on one thing was too much for human patience.
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5  The rest of the world was nowhere, as far as our eyes and ears were concerned.
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6  The faces twitched with the strain, the hands trembled slightly, the eyes forgot to wink.
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7  In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighborhood, and his eyes had a look of sleepy cunning.
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8  All their meager breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily uphill.
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9  He held his head rigid, face forward; but his eyes rolled, he kept on lifting and setting down his feet gently, his mouth foamed a little.
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10  His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an ax.
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11  He stood there for a moment in the moonlight with his delicate hooked nose set a little askew, and his mica eyes glittering without a wink, then, with a curt Good night, he strode off.
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12  So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.
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13  I had been dimly aware for some time of a worrying noise, and when I lifted my eyes I saw the wood-pile was gone, and the manager, aided by all the pilgrims, was shouting at me from the river-side.
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14  The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly.
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15  Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes.
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16  But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage.
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17  It was the shaft of a spear that, either thrown or lunged through the opening, had caught him in the side just below the ribs; the blade had gone in out of sight, after making a frightful gash; my shoes were full; a pool of blood lay very still, gleaming dark-red under the wheel; his eyes shone with an amazing luster.
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