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
It is surprising how much of the wilderness his wistful eye discovers in a Central Park buffalo yard.
From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
The empress never ceased to look with a wistful eye upon the regions which the Turks had wrested from the Christians.
From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
