sheep's eyes

Example Sentences

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They were strange men, hoarse men, unreasonable men who cast sheep's-eyes at the dark woman from Regina, whose shack, rented of Scarecrow Charlie, crowned the high point of the ledge.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Melchitsedek accosted his interpretess and made sheep's-eyes at her.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

She cast at him what are commonly called sheep's-eyes.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward

Even the blush he had boggled at came to his cheeks punctually whenever his sheep's-eyes met Fanny's.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

I'd been throwing sheep's-eyes at him all my life; why didn't I say to myself, 'Look here, Julia my girl, this doesn't appear to be working somehow.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]