And then in turn we could escape - escape the quiet mutterings and averted eyes, escape the spies and the prudes, the bloodsuckers and the moneylenders, escape the tedium, escape the whine of Binet's lathe.
With $25 in my pocket and my entire life in three suitcases, I stood in the rain by a subway entrance and refused to let the tears burning my eyes escape.
Several players said they dared not make eye contact with Mr. Dutoit while he conducted and instead followed his directions through the sides of their eyes to escape his direct glance.
I started shouting, Waiter, waiter, then opened my eyes and escaped from that miserable dream.
In film, when I'm sitting in a movie theatre and I close my eyes — to, say, escape a nightmare or a horror film — I close my eyes and I am back in the comfort of my seat and I can feel my armrest and my chair and I know I am in the cinema and I can feel the air-conditioning on my face.
While there are doubtless many teachers spending their summers writing novels, with an eye on escaping the lesson plans and daily commute, Swainston has been there, done that, and had enough.
Early in the book, Lady Montdore, Fanny and Polly share a car on the way home from a wedding, and they all chat: "Lady Montdore was wonderful when it came to picking over an occasion of that sort, with her gimlet eye nothing escaped her, nor did any charitable inhibitions tone down her comments on what she had observed".
Teams need to be assembling their rosters now with an eye on escaping Lincoln Financial Field with a win in January.
The beauty of Brant's slippery script and Christopher Haydon's uncompromising production is the way they confront the audience: we are both witness and spying eye; we cannot escape being implicated in the debate about moral responsibility.
Guilt-ridden, I'll skip showering, drive like I'm in a car chase and spend lunch ducking under the restaurant table to escape eye daggers.
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