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1. Behind the glasses his eyes looked look like little bicycle wheels at dizzy speed —William Faulkner
2. Dull eyes set like pebbles in a puffy, unwholesome-looking face —Eric Ambler Eye/pebble comparisons abound, with examples throughout this section.
3. Eye-sockets deep as those of a death’s head —Thomas Hardy
4. Eye-sockets … like dark caves —John Wainwright
5. Eyeballs like shelled hard-boiled eggs —Ivan Bunin
6. Eyes as big and as soft and as transparent as ripe gooseberries —Edna O’Brien
7. Eyes … as cloudy as poisoned oysters —Miles Gibson
8. Eyes … big and shiny, black as oil —Shirley Ann Grau
9. Eyes blackly circled like those of a raccoon —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
10. Eyes … carefully painted like the eyes on Egyptian frescoes —Anals Nin, Chicago Review, Winter-Spring, 1962
11. Eyes … deep and dark like mountain nights —Mary Hedin
12. Eyes … deep as a well —Walter Savage Landor
13. Eyes flat as glass —James Lee Burke
14. Eyes … flat gold, like a lemur’s —Sue Grafton
15. Eyes glazed and almost lightless like the little button eyes of a doll —George Garrett
16. Eyes … large and gray, and baleful, like glass on fire —Norman Mailer
17. Eyes large as fifty-cent pieces, but pale, like dusty stones —Ludwig Bemelmans Bemelmans’ subject is William Randolph Hearst.
18. Eyes … large as saucers —E. N. Slocum, line from lyric of a song written in 1868 entitled “On the Beach at Cape May”
19. Eyes like a codfish —Frank Swinnerton
20. Eyes like a couple of wells —William Diehl
21. Eyes … like an Arizona sunset, and they were supported on pouches as large and shapeless as badly packed duffle bags —Jimmy Sangster
22. Eyes like a pinwheel —Ann Beattie
23. Eyes … like a spaniel’s —Ouida
24. Eyes like a starless winter night —clear, black, bleak —A. E. Maxwell
25. Eyes … like chestnuts floating on twin pools of milk —William Styron
26. Eyes like cold cavities in his head —Natascha Wodin
27. Eyes … like crickets in daylight —Rochelle Ratner
28. Eyes like crosses burning on a lawn —Rochelle Ratner
29. Eyes like currants in a half-cooked suet pudding —Robert Graves A simple variation from a short story by Katherine Mansfield: “Little eyes, like currants.”
30. Eyes like dark searchlights —Ross Macdonald
31. Eyes like dusty lapis lazuli —S. J. Perelman
32. Eyes like forest pools —W. Somerset Maugham
33. Eyes … like forget-me-nots —Mazo De La Roche
34. Eyes … like ground owls, deep in their burrows —Harold Adams
35. Eyes like holes burned with a cigar —William Faulkner
36. Eyes … like holes were poked in a snowbank —Raymond Chandler
37. Eyes like jelly —Hanoch Bartov
38. Eyes like licked stones —Virginia Woolf
39. Eyes like licorice gumdrops —Robert Campbell
40. Eyes … like lustrous black currants —Frank Swinnerton
41. Eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light —William Shakespeare In Shakespeare’s time ‘sheathed’ was written as ‘sheath’d.’
42. Eyes like mice peeking into my pockets —Robert Campbell
43. Eyes like oiled black olives —Frank Tuohy
44. Eyes … like old pictures of Rachmaninoff s eyes —Henry Van Dyke
45. Eyes like onions —Donald Barthelme
46. Eyes … like pale marble in a field of red —Linda West Eckhardt
47. Eyes … like peas —T. Coraghessan Boyle
48. Eyes … like pebbles at the bottom of a mountain trout pool, fixed and icy —Donald MacKenzie
49. Eyes like pebbles, the kind of pebbles which kids call aggies —Ludwig Bemelmans
50. Eyes like pebbles unwashed by the sea —Kathleen Farrell
51. Eyes … like pools of oil —T. Coraghessan Boyle
52. Eyes … like punctuation marks —Geoffrey Wolff
53. Eyes … like rubber knobs, like they’d give to the touch —William Faulkner
54. Eyes like searchlights —Donald McCaig
55. Eyes..like shrewd marbles —Harvey Swados
56. Eyes like the brown waters of a woodland stream —Henry Van Dyke
57. Eyes like the deep, blue boundless heaven —Percy Bysshe Shelley
58. (Watery gray) eyes, like the thick edges of broken skylight glass —Willa Cather
59. Eyes … like those of a lobster, as if they were on stalks —William James, letter from Germany to sister Alice, January 9, 1868
60. Eyes … like tiny stone wedges hammer between the lids —Ross Macdonald
61. Eyes like tunnels —Arthur Miller
62. Eyes like twin daisies in a bucket of blood —Leonard Washborn, Inter-Ocean, Chicago newspaper, 1880s
63. Eyes … like two black seeds —Dashiell Hammett
64. Eyes … like two holes burned in a blanket —Borden Deal
65. Eyes … like two obeisant satellites —Cynthia Ozick
66. Eyes … like two pissholes in the snow —American colloquialism
67. Eyes … like violets by a river of pure water —Oscar Wilde
68. Eyes like washed pebbles stuck in cement (gave him a slightly aggressive look) —Donald MacKenzie
69. Eyes like white clay marbles —Randall Jarrell
70. Eyes limpid and still like pools of water —Robert Louis Stevenson
71. Eyes … like glass marbles —Herman Wouk
72. Eye sockets..as flat as saucers —Z. Vance Wilson
73. Eyes peering between folds of fat like almond kernels in half-split shells —Edith Wharton
74. Eyes pressed so deep in his head that they seemed … like billiard balls sunk in their pockets —William Styron
75. Eyes, restless, softly brown like a monkey’s —F. van Wyck Mason
76. Eyes … round and shiny, like the glass-bead eyes of stuffed animals —Margaret Atwood
77. Eyes, round as cherries —Ignazio Silone
78. Eyes … round as quarters —Laurie Colwin
79. Eyes … round, inane as the blue pebbles of the rain —Dame Edith Sitwell
80. Eyes shaped like peach pits —Bobbie Ann Mason
81. Eyes … shiny and flat as mirrors —Shirley Ann Grau
82. Eyes … small and dark and liquid, like drops of strong coffee —Margaret Millar
83. Eyes … small and nacreous like painted ornaments —Jean Stafford
84. Eyes … small and dirty like the eyes of a potato —Ross Macdonald
85. Eyes … small and hard and shiny like dimes —Ross Macdonald
86. Eyes soft as a leading lady’s, round as a doe’s —T. Coraghessan Boyle
87. Eyes, speckled and hard as pebbles at the bottom of a stream —John Yount
88. Eyes spoked and rimmed with black, like a mourner’s rosette —Edith Pearlman The simile is particularly appropriate as the writer is describing a character who is a widow.
89. Eyes that looked like imitation jewels —Henry James
90. Eyes the size of melons —Mary Hood
91. Eyes were small, so that with the mascara and the shadows painted on their lids they looked like flopping black butterflies —Eudora Welty
92. Her eyes looked awful [from too much liquor] as though they had been boiled —Christopher Isherwood
93. Her eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough —William Faulkner
94. His eyes behind his glasses kind of all run together like broken eggs —William Faulkner
95. His eyes stood in his head like two poached eggs —Erich Maria Remarque
96. Large eyes like dark pools —Erich Maria Remarque
97. Little eyes like cigarette-ends —Charles Bukowski
98. Looked like cat’s eyes do, like a big cat against the wall, watching us —William Faulkner
99. Lynx-like eyes —O. Henry
100. Our very eyes are sometimes like our judgements, blind —William Shakespeare
101. Protruding eyes that looked like two fish straining to get out of a net of red threads —Flannery O’Connor
102. The pupils of his eyes were like disks of blue fire —Oscar Wilde
103. Round eyes like blue polka dots in her crimson face —Helen Hudson
104. Sharp stains like poor coffee under her eyes —V. S. Pritchett
105. She was wearing so much eyeliner that her eyes looked as if they had been drawn in ink —Jonathan Valin
106. Small eyes, set like a pig’s in shallow orbits —Francis Brett Young
107. Their eyes seemed like rings from which the gems had been dropped —Dante Alighieri
108. Two little eyes like gimlet holes —Émile Zola
109. The veins in her eyeballs twisted like a map of jungle rivers —Arthur Miller