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
With us, the Eumenides, of sleepless eye; But different names seem good in different lands.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin
