sleepless eye
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Her sleepless eye for cant, necessary in all good poetry, is a bonus.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
By the tranquil standards of poetry criticism, William Logan is a slasher, a burner, a brawler, a big-game hunter with a sleepless eye.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2018
She has a sleepless eye and dispenses observations as if from a toxic eyedropper: “Caffeine was my exercise”; “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2018
His tears were all shed: he wept not--he spoke not; but the bitterness which has no end was in his heart, and, with a sleepless eye, he watched through the livelong night.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
I closed the case; on reopening it, I could scarcely believe that the beautiful sleepless eye would again flash upon me.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
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