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

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

I shan't forget, to my dying day, that when you gave me the glad eye that time in the garden, you were making a fool of me.

From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard

It is when that suitor has cast the glad eye upon the lady of his choice that matters would appear to proceed after an unsatisfactory and yet most conspicuous fashion.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart