eyes-wide

Updated: February 26, 2026

Then she sank down into a crouching attitude in the big arm-chair, her eyes-wide open and staring out at the red lights from the furnaces that flickered in the sky. An hour after she was still there, her attitude scarcely changed. The oppressive stillness of the evening weighed heavily upon Raut.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories