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On the opposite side of the saloon, not far from the door to his own quarters, Monk lay semi-prone with a purple face and protruding eyeballs, far gone toward death through strangulation. Phinuit, on his knees, was removing a silk handkerchief that had been twisted about that scrawney throat.
To speak to you he threw back his head with an idiotic laugh; then his bluish eyeballs, rolling constantly, at the temples beat against the edge of the open wound. He sang a little song as he followed the carriages "Maids an the warmth of a summer day Dream of love, and of love always" And all the rest was about birds and sunshine and green leaves.
Then he took up hat and stick and stumbled blindly down the verandah steps.... Back in his bachelor room at the Club, he realised that fever was on him again: his eyeballs burning; little hammers beating all over his head.
The singularly-large and intense eyes of the loris have attracted the attention, of the Singhalese, who capture the creature for the purpose of extracting them as charms and love-potions, and this they are said to effect by holding the little animal to the fire till its eyeballs burst.
Among them floated two ducks, white bellies to the sky. This was all Bobby had time to observe for the moment. "Mark!" warned Mr. Kincaid behind him. A tremendous tenseness fell on the world. Bobby's muscles stiffened to the point of aching. The limited vista bounded on right and left by the sidewise movement of his eyeballs, and above by the brim of his cap contained nothing.
Look, fool, and read what vengeance visits a fool who is fool enough to play the spy!" He brandished the papers before those glazing eyeballs. In an eldritch cackle he translated: "'He who bears this message is a Prussian dog, police trained, a spy. Let his death be a dog's, cruel and swift. Number One."
No one answered; there wasn't a priest of any denomination; I don't know whether the omission was purposed. The man's face grew convulsed with agony, his eyeballs stared out very white and vivid, as he struggled with the two men. He began to curse us epileptically for compassing his damnation. A hoarse patter of Spanish imprecations came from the crowd immediately round me.
Balzac's sister speaks of them as brown; but, according to other contemporaries, they were like brilliant black diamonds, with rich reflections of gold, the white of the eyeballs being tinged with blue. They seemed to be lit with the fire of the genius within, to read souls, to answer questions before they were asked, and at the same time to pour out warm rays of kindliness from a joyous heart.
What gigantic form is that which stalks thus awfully before the eyes of my memory; his face, rough and dark as the cloud of winter, and his eyeballs burning like coals of fire? 'Tis the impetuous captain Snipes.
In the darkening room the firelight leaped and showed to Father Honoré the woman's face transfigured under the powerful influence of his words. She smiled up at him a smile so brave in its pathos, so winning in its true womanliness, that Father Honoré felt the tears bite his eyeballs. "Perhaps I don't need to go then."
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