longing eye
Example Sentences
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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
“Hullo, me bye!” she called to Sammy, as he lingered outside the broken fence with a longing eye upon her.
From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
Nevertheless she could not help but be interested in him and look at times with a longing eye at his interesting face and figure.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
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 Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles
Yet I now looked about on our comfortable parlor with a longing eye.
From The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
