Sentence examples for longing eye from inspiring English sources

Briggs offered her the rollout on the sunporch, but she returned to Faucher wearily, having first gone to the front window to cast a longing eye at the rental car.

For once, the popular gaze was shifted from the longing eye cast on wealth, fame, and metropolitan centers to the often-bleak, exurban, rural, and impoverished neighborhoods where people sometimes find solace in pretending to be someone else.

For once, the popular gaze was shifted from the longing eye cast on wealth, fame, and metropolitan centers, to the often-bleak, exurban, rural, and impoverished neighborhoods where people found solace in pretending to be someone else.

He has cast longing eyes at the Model S on numerous occasions.

"I was staggered when I saw the works... and looked at them with wondering and with longing eyes.

Then the Australian colonists are casting longing eyes on the fertile island, and a proposed colonising expedition recently made a considerable stir in this country.

If, after this defeat, the Republicans cling to the extreme social conservatism of its loony right, they will be gazing at the White House with longing eyes for many years.

Josef Kropinski eventually answered the question in leaving one of the most mournful songs to survive now in the Holocaust Cantata: Dreams of yore will not return, Nor the reveries that burned, Nor the nectar of sweet lips, Nor those longing eyes!

It was understood that "no one under forty should be eligible for the reel"; and we dancers had much fun to ourselves over the comparatively small number that were willing to confess to being over forty, although all looked on with longing eyes, while we old boys and girls renewed our youth.

To be honest, Hugh Grant probably ruined love for all of us with his sad basset hound eyes longing after Julia Roberts (who essentially plays herself) in the 1999 classic.

Recounting stories about eye miniatures including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience.