glad eye

Example Sentences

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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

"Which will cost you more, my fair Olympian, than a glad eye."

From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford

I shan't forget, to my dying day, that when you gave me the glad eye that time in the garden, you were making a fool of me.

From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard

People who strew corn broadcast for a lot of feathered inanities that just sit about cooing and giving each other the glad eye in a Louis Quatorze manner are pretty certain to do you well.”

From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki