sleepless eye
Example Sentences
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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
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
Not a light was allowed to be shown, lest it might be observed by any sleepless eye on shore—and as little noise as possible was made, lest any ear might hear it.
From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.
