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
It sheltered magnificently their vagabond labours under the sleepless eye of the sun.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph
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
