The corrosion, which ate nearly all the way through the thick lid of a reactor, left the vessel dangerously vulnerable to rupturing.

The others were big and bulbous, with large pupils and thick lids.

Dull, too, was the onion soup with its thin broth and thick lid of melted cheese.

The mosque director set the box down on his desk, raised its thick lid, and said, "It's all yours.

It took all her strength to lift the thick lid.

But they did nothing to diminish the heat, seeming instead to enclose it and its still, threatening air under a thick muffling lid.

Eye large, covered by a thick granular lid pierced with a small central opening for the pupil.

His dull brown eyes were glazed, like candied fruit, with thick wrinkled lids.

The cool gleam of his eyes shone between the thick lids and it shone straight at me.

There was no change in the dullness of the sky; no sun broke through the thick lid of clouds.