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

Yet I now looked about on our comfortable parlor with a longing eye.

From The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

Here clustering grapes appear to shed Their luscious juices on the head, And cheat the longing eye; So round the Phrygian monarch hung Fair fruits that from his parchèd tongue For ever seem’d to fly.

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William

“Hullo, me bye!” she called to Sammy, as he lingered outside the broken fence with a longing eye upon her.

From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks