Timeline for "his eyes swam in his head"?
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| Apr 9, 2020 at 14:09 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | there was also his brow paling and his eyes swimming in the last dizzy gaze of death doing the rounds backk then. | |
| Apr 9, 2020 at 9:46 | vote | accept | dbwlsld | ||
| Apr 9, 2020 at 7:58 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @FumbleFingersReinstateMonica A lot of the references Google finds seem to be from different editions of this very passage (from Washington Irving)! | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 16:18 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's relatively uncommon today, but a century or two ago it seems that eyes swam in his head was almost as common as he rolled his eyes. But of course, nowadays, rolling your eyes usually implies being "exasperated" rather than glassy-eyed/woozy. | |
| Apr 8, 2020 at 8:12 | history | answered | Kate Bunting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |