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
But the increasing power of the rival monastery, built by her husband, naturally caused its occupants to turn a wistful eye towards churches so immediately in their vicinity.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman
Whereupon Tubby cast a wistful eye toward the border of the frogpond, where the big greenbacks could be seen, sitting partly in the water, and calling to one another socially.
From The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap
