wistful eye
Example Sentences
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The weekend now turns its attention to the semipro ranks, as college football offers up Friday’s L.S.U.-Alabama clash, while casting a wistful eye on the disappearing Texas-Texas A&M rivalry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
The tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nat looked up and caught her wistful eye.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
“Better to lose the pork than be scalped,” answered the Dominie, though he gazed at the boar with a wistful eye.
From With Axe and Rifle by H. Meyer
Along the solitary shore While flitting sea-fowl round me cry, Across the rolling, dashing roar, I’ll westward turn my wistful eye: Happy, thou Indian grove, I’ll say, Where now my Nancy’s path may be!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
