penetrating eye
Example Sentences
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But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dayan did not touch the map lying in the middle of the table; he only looked straight ahead with his one penetrating eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is now in his forty-seventh year, not handsome, with a small well-formed head, an intelligent brow, and a quick penetrating eye.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Fr�ulein Perini had spoken of it as applicable, in two respects, to one present and to one absent, for the special interest of Bella had not escaped her penetrating eye.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
But where was I to get my happy thought, and by what stroke of fortune could I reasonably hope to light upon a clue which had escaped the penetrating eye of my quondam colleague?
From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine
