penetrating eye

Example Sentences

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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 Warren, Samuel

In personal appearance Howard is described as having been short, thin and sallow—unprepossessing apart from the attraction of a penetrating eye and a benevolent smile.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

His sagacious, penetrating eye, and stern, commanding air, as well as the brevity and decision with which he expressed himself, denoted the old warrior and leader.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin