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
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
When the Jarvis property had been put up for sale, Mr. Martin had looked with a longing eye upon the Teeter farm, where The Dale stood.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
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 Rouse, W.H.D.
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
