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
Young Richard cast a longing eye, Complain’d that he was very dry, And suffering with the heat.
From Doctor Bolus and His Patients by Unknown
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
Richard cast a longing eye at it, and complained to his papa that he was very dry.
From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John
When the Jarvis property had been put up for sale, Mr. Martin had looked with a longing eye upon the Teeter farm, where The Dale stood.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
