penetrating eye
Example Sentences
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But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His face was of the rotund type, bold in its expression, yet with something of gentle humanity, seen when searched for, in the profound depths of a dark penetrating eye.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
Fr�ulein Perini had spoken of it as applicable, in two respects, to one present and to one absent, for the special interest of Bella had not escaped her penetrating eye.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
It requires a certain special faculty, and a penetrating eye, to see the forms of life in their deeper individuality.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
