penetrating eye
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Dayan did not touch the map lying in the middle of the table; he only looked straight ahead with his one penetrating eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stranger again slightly inclined towards him, and—still more slightly—touched his hat; fixing on him, at the same time, an inquisitive penetrating eye, which really abashed, or rather perhaps alarmed him.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
During his absence my mother found me a bad companion: I was for ever falling into reverie, and a less penetrating eye than hers would have discovered that my symptoms were those of mental uneasiness.
From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Amelia Alderson Opie
Still there was a look of anxiety on her fine countenance, which could not escape the penetrating eye of love.
From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie
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