penetrating eye
Example Sentences
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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
But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw.
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 Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Now, Attilio had watched with a penetrating eye the manner in which the emissary of the Cardinal had come and gone.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
This brother Eusebius knows right well, for the hidden properties and relations of things are clear to his penetrating eye.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
