wistful eye
Example Sentences
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The weekend now turns its attention to the semipro ranks, as college football offers up Friday’s L.S.U.-Alabama clash, while casting a wistful eye on the disappearing Texas-Texas A&M rivalry.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011
In the past two years G-Men have often rolled a wistful eye at the sensational headlines of the Dies Committee, which had invaded an ancient but lately unpublicized province of FBI�sabotage, propaganda, espionage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nat looked up and caught her wistful eye.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Once more at Mount Vernon, that haven of repose to which he had so often turned a wistful eye, he surrendered himself to those agricultural and rural pursuits for which he had a fondness.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
