sleepless eye
Example Sentences
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Her sleepless eye for cant, necessary in all good poetry, is a bonus.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021
By the tranquil standards of poetry criticism, William Logan is a slasher, a burner, a brawler, a big-game hunter with a sleepless eye.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018
She has a sleepless eye and dispenses observations as if from a toxic eyedropper: “Caffeine was my exercise”; “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2018
Hers was that faithful affection that preferred long vigils at the bedside through the watches of the night,—the nurse that the sleepless eye ever found awake.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster
Ah, may it ne'er be thine to know The sleepless eye, the tossing head; May He above ordain it so, And guardian angels shield thy bed.
From The Minstrel A Collection of Poems by Amott, Lennox
