41. When he speaks, his eyes grow wide and owlish, his mouth curls into a circle, and he clasps and unclasps his hands like a priest. 42. When she waxes philosophically about romance and marriage, her eyes grow large and then her hands move. 43. When he came back on the line, he started reading the numbers, and I guess my eyes must have grown big. 44. But his eyes grew red and moist as he talked about slain U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan. 45. But presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist. 46. His eyes grow wide, and he grins. 47. Stories abound in Shinyanga of children, grandchildren and neighbors orchestrating the killing of elderly women whose eyes have grown red from years of cooking over cow dung fires. 48. Their eyes grow wide as the magnitude of their mission becomes clear. 49. Earlier studies on mice have uncovered the gene, called small eye, which would cause small eyes to grow on mice or none at all through manipulation. |