He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Janetta raised her eyes and looked at him bravely.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Mr. Harthouse, as a thoroughly well-bred man, accustomed to the best society, was not to be surprised—he could as soon have been affected—but he raised his eyelids a little more, as if they were lifted by a feeble touch of wonder.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The wife slowly rolled her eyes and lowered her eyelids.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

And what he means by a common acknowledgment of right he explains at large, showing that a republic cannot be administered without justice.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The consul also, never relaxing his efforts as long as any light remained, kept the enemy employed.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Her face might be a trifle paler, and the circles round her eyes a little blacker than usual; but whenever she came out from the sick-room she was always smiling, fresh, and neat, and looked as trim in her little dressing-gown and cap, as in her smartest evening suit.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then courageously raising her eyes and looking out of the window, "if I'm not playing cribbage with my uncle."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

He tried to move, but aside from rolling his eyes and lolling his tongue out, he was helpless.
— from The Enormous Room by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

He had not ventured to raise his eyes and look into her face.
— from Cleopatra — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

The poor girl, who was so overwhelmed with confusion that she scarcely knew what she did, had determined to remain perfectly quiet; but fearing that by so doing she might seem to countenance Sir Mulberry’s boast, which had been uttered with great coarseness and vulgarity of manner, raised her eyes, and looked him in the face.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Sir James, position of, at the Colonial Office, i. 174 Stephens, arrest of, i. 155 Sterling, John, Mr., and Coleridge, i. 109 Stowe, sale at, iii. 216 Strachan, Lady, ii. 91 Strutt, Right Hon. Edward (afterwards Lord Belper), Railroad Bill of, iii. 93, 95 Sudeley, Lord, loses three forged Exchequer Bills, ii.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

The same condition met him on the second floor, but when he had finally reached the roof, he espied a large chimney which promised a method of ingress to the apartment below.
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

Beyond herself, yet 146 in cool control of herself, she raised her eyes and looked steadily in his as steadily she said: “I can be Anglo-Saxon, or English, or American, or whatever you choose to name the ability to look things squarely in the face and to talk squarely into the face of things.”
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

When he raised his eyes and looked at her, Marguerite noticed with distress an expression of fear, like that of a child detected in a fault.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

She raised her eyebrows a little, waking.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

Edith raised her eyebrows and looked surprised.
— from The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

M. de Cussy looked at M. d'Ogeron, and raised his eyebrows a little.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini