peeled eye

Powell, 31, a Houston roofer, has all the literary equipment for a new career: a peeled eye, a tuning-fork ear and an innovative way with local color and regional speech.

Good prisonmen keep a peeled eye on conditions and methods in other prisons than their own.

Hit’s my business to keep a peeled eye in my face.”

The idea of applying for a pension never entered his head until the subject was suggested to him by Postmaster Mugridge, a more worldly man, an office-holder himself, with a carefully peeled eye on Government patronage.