Once Sylvie was in the bath, she lay with her eyes closed, head back against the edge of the tub, while Marjorie gently soaped her body, lifting her arms one by one, cleaning between her small breasts and her legs.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

Frankie sat at the table with her eyes half closed, and she thought about a wedding.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Member of the Wedding'

Bruised and cut, with both eyes virtually closed, she said her female employer had viciously beaten her around the head that morning with a rattan cane.

CNN: Malaysia's Secret Vice

Her eyes are closed with joy.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care

The British teen-ager -- the only one to know what happened before the boy was rushed to the hospital -- described her panic when the infant woke from a nap, gasping for breath with his eyes half-closed.

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