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
The exiled Stuarts looked with a longing eye to that crown which their stupid folly had forfeited.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
And he cast a longing eye to the hampers.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
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
