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 general result of this was that wherever there was fishing to be secured I got it, and was seldom without opportunity of turning that longing eye of which I aforetime spoke to the waterside.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William

Art sallied down to the hedge on which the linen had been put out to dry, and having reconnoitered the premises, shrugged himself, and cast a longing eye on the third shirt.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

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

But they had cast a longing eye on the whale-boat, which, when equipped for service, contained many things very useful to them, and they laid a plan to carry her off, which succeeded.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert