longing eye
Example Sentences
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It’s a balm, a longing eye and a soft smile, a confident embrace.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015
He cast a longing eye at several fruits hanging from the boughs of trees of the palm species, but they were all beyond his reach, and no way occurred to him of getting at them.
From The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston
Yet I now looked about on our comfortable parlor with a longing eye.
From The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
If the frost broke up we should have magnificent runs, and we looked at the country with a longing eye.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Parched with thirst in the hot noonday, he turns a longing eye on the ripe grapes that are hanging in purple clusters on the wayside, or on the water trickling down the narrow ravine.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
