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

Everywhere he was welcomed with enthusiasm, and his glad eye beheld the festivities of Christmas with a delight which recalled past emotions, till they wrung his heart.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

When she, my lady, smiles, I feel as one who, lost in darksome wilds, Sees suddenly the sun in middle sky Shining upon him like a great glad eye.

From Yesterdays by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler