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• She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
• The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. [...].
• The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
• Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
• The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
• In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
• That dress caught her eye.
• Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
• He has an eye for talent.
• Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes” to search for their missing daughters.
• She was giving him the eye at the bar.   When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
• the very eye of that proverb
• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
• Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
• After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
• Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
• They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
• My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.
• an eye of pheasants
• Her eye, long stranger to any gleam of pleasure, caught them in waking, and shone delighted as she gathered them eagerly together. (Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë)