Eye

Near-synonym: eyeball

Bright lights really hurt my eyes.

To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.

Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]

Now with a bitter smile, whose light did shine / Like a fiend’s hope upon his lips and eyne, / He said, and the persuasion of that sneer / Rallied his trembling comrades— […]

It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

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.

[H]is 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.

The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.

Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.

Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.

That dress caught her eye.

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.

He has an eye for talent.

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.

She was giving him the eye at the bar.

When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.

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.

[H]e struck the Duffer a sharp blow on the back of the head with the eye of the axe, and left him stunned and senseless on the earth[.]

the very eye of that proverb

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

Red vvith an Eye of Blevv, makes a Purple; and by theſe ſimple Compoſitions again Compounded among themſelves, the Skilful Painter can produce vvhat kind of Colour he pleaſes, and a great many more than vve have yet Names for.

The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.

This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.

After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.

They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.

Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.

My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.

Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.

My first assignment was eyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.

Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]

It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."

IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".

an eye of pheasants