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
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
“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
He casts a longing eye on the other camp.
From The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism by Foote, G. W. (George William)
He cast a longing eye at several fruits hanging from the boughs of trees of the palm species, but they were all beyond his reach, and no way occurred to him of getting at them.
From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles
