Again the priest, with half-closed eyes, snuggled into his cushions.
Then he half-closed his large, pale eyes, and tilted his head a little.
"I think I understand you," said he, with a cunning expression in his half-closed eyes.
He arose and watched them through the half-closed jalousies.
"True, ever true," muttered the youth, with half-closed lids.
"None of an earthly character," said he, with a half-closed eye.
The latter lay in his chair, with half-closed eyes, pretending to doze.
Her wildly roaming eyes were caught by the half-closed window.
Whispering Smith, motionless, only watched the half-closed eyes.
The half-closed leaden eyes of windows watched from another world.
c.1200, past participle adjective from close (v.). Closed circuit is attested from 1827; closed shop in union sense from 1904; closed system first recorded 1896 in William James.
