red-lidded

One day, shielded from the other passengers by his broad, well-tailored back, the thief robs a weak old man with red-lidded eyes of "sea-mucus blue," cowering in the bus's back corner, his "false teeth dropping from his upper gums" in his terror.

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

He blinked rapidly, eyes red-lidded and bloodshot.

In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

He looked up with little, red-lidded eyes, grinning queerly at her.

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

Alick's countenance fell; and when his face, always long, became longer still, with a congealed-looking skin, sad, red-lidded eyes and a hanging under lip, it was not lovely.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Hanneh Breineh wiped her red-lidded eyes with the corner of her apron.

Hungry Hearts 1920

To-day he looked more like a bulldog than ever, for his eyes were red-lidded and watery.

The Long Chance 1918

It was a woman's pride that shone in her swollen red-lidded eyes as she told herself this, while she pinned on her shabby Stetson in trembling haste, buckled the spurs on her boots and snatched up her ugly mackinaw.

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

The freckled vagrant studied him through his red-lidded eyes, kicking some loose embers back into the fire with his toe.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

The grass-grown walk beside the low brick wall of the churchyard led on to the judge's own garden, a square enclosure, laid out in straight vegetable rows, marked off by variegated borders of flowering plants -- heartsease, foxglove, and the red-lidded eyes of scarlet poppies.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

He was rarely home, but Dinah, dark-browed, sullen, red-lidded, and with a look of suffering on her plain face, responded to their demands and did, so far as she could, her husband's work and her own.

Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907