Sentence examples for eyes fastened from inspiring English sources

Huston continued to laugh, but his eyes, fastened on Murphy, were sombre.

Lockwood recalled later: "He listened with absolute attention, his dark eyes fastened on mine.

Then my eyes fastened on two protruding screws, one on each side of the interior of Hana's letter box: in their functional ugliness they were reassuring.

He should have guessed then, from the way her eyes fastened on his, that something was awry, that she wasn't on good terms with her aunt and uncle or that Ms. F. — weren't all fetuses female at first? — was a problematic guest, but the warmth of her breath, the lilt of her perfume, expunged rational thought.

A common sight in malls, in pizza parlors, in Starbucks, and wherever else American teens hang out: three or four kids, hooded, gathered around a table, leaning over like monks or druids, their eyes fastened to the smartphones held in front of them.

One of them tells of her horror, "... each moment he came near me, and that I could see his eye fastened upon me my veins ran ice.

I nerved myself up and said to Huong, "Why can't you quit this sex work so we can be together?" Her eyes gleamed, fastened on me.

Instead, their eyes were fastened on Mr. Jerome-Parks, out of concern that he might vomit into the mask that stabilized his head.

Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.

Finally, "Look who's coming!" We all look and there is Jack, on the other side of the glass, sailing in our direction, looking at us looking at him, eyes that stay fastened as he moves.

In many cases, though, it makes specific activity hard to read and gives little for the eye to fasten on.