This stage of sleep is characterized by muscle atonia, fast but low voltage EEG and, as the name suggests, rapid eye movement.

Sister M.D. was drawing something very rapidly one day, and she forgot that someone with very rapid eyes might be watching her hands.

"I had inquired," he said, low and rapid, eyes yet averted.

He slid back the roll top, and ran a rapid eye over the neatly filed papers.

The effect was somewhat undermined by the rapid blinking of one eye.

Most men have 3 to 5 full erections during deep (rapid eye movement, or REM) sleep.

Peters cast a rapid eye over the board.

She gauged it with a rapid eye.

His rapid eyes - the only rapid things about him - had scanned millions of women in his random travels.

Through rapid eye blinks, the numbers on the readouts blurred together and she felt dizzy; she placed a hand on her stomach.