longing eye
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It’s a balm, a longing eye and a soft smile, a confident embrace.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015
Fatigued, therefore, and anxious, she sat upon the bank, and beheld afar off, with a longing eye and a wistful mind, the place where the prelate abided.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
Many a longing eye did I cast to the shore, where, in spite of the bloodhounds, I should like to have stretched my cramped limbs.
From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden
Art sallied down to the hedge on which the linen had been put out to dry, and having reconnoitered the premises, shrugged himself, and cast a longing eye on the third shirt.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
Now it so happened that the crocodile’s wife cast a longing eye on this Monkey.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by W.H.D. Rouse
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