He looks upon life and all its affairs with the
jaundiced eye of a pessimistic German philosopher.
So now Mr Gowan, like that worn-out old coffin which never was Mahomet's nor anybody else's, hung midway between two points:
jaundiced and jealous as to the one he had left:
jaundiced and jealous as to the other that he couldn't reach.
Then it fell for a tender moment on the
jaundiced page of my old Boccaccio,--a rare edition, which I had taken from my knapsack to indulge myself with the appreciation of a connoisseur.
For every hand seemed raised against me, though in reality it was the hand of fellowship that the world stretched out, and the other was the reading of a
jaundiced eye.
He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a
jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.
Not that he regarded the play of life about him with a
jaundiced eye, but, rather, that his eyes became unseeing.
I don't know what this - jolly old -
Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'
That she should struggle against the fascinating influence of his delightful art - delightful nature I thought it then - did not surprise me either; for I knew that she was sometimes
jaundiced and perverse.
'you have forced the conviction that you are so, even on my once-
jaundiced mind, and I believe you.
Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own
jaundiced eyes and hearts.
He was trying to dismiss the whole thing from his mind--a feat which had hitherto proved beyond his powers--when Fate, in an unusually kindly mood, enabled him to do so in a flash by presenting to his
jaundiced gaze what, on consideration, he decided was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
He looked at me with a
jaundiced eye (there was no love lost between us), and declared at once that it was strange, very strange.