glad eye

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Arsenal may try to muscle in on the Rémy action and are also being linked with a move for Toulouse enforcer Moussa Sissoko, who is also being given the glad eye by Newcastle.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

But the villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just a glad eye last night and a two-minute run this morning.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

He saw with a glad eye the "something" that is everywhere at all times, and in all places, for the poet's and the visionary's eye at least.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

It was difficult to be patient with those swaggering young officers who gave the glad eye to girls whose sweethearts lay dead somewhere between the French and German trenches.

From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip