glad eye
Example Sentences
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Arsenal may try to muscle in on the Rémy action and are also being linked with a move for Toulouse enforcer Moussa Sissoko, who is also being given the glad eye by Newcastle.
From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012
But the villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent.
From Time Magazine Archive
His effort drew from the Queen a glance as nearly approaching the "glad eye" as any that august spinster was ever known to dispense.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 by Various
He saw with a glad eye the "something" that is everywhere at all times, and in all places, for the poet's and the visionary's eye at least.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
Pretty, prettiest thing yawning as you lie Watching with glad eye, busy life go by.
From The Adventures of Akbar by Shaw, Byam
