I liked this simile, likening a woman’s eyes to those of a cat.   

She’d got black eyes with no human soul in them, but sparkles instead, like a cat’s eyes on a frosty night. 

See also our themed collections of quotations on both cats and eyes.  

Source: Mary Webb, Precious Bane (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 72

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