Sheep's-eye

Sheep's´-eye`


n.1.A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; - commonly in the plural.
I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye.
- Wycherley.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The superior nerve of women in all matters connected with love, from the casting of the first sheep's-eye down to the end of the honeymoon, is too well acknowledged to need comment.
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Coming out on the northern peak at the old Adamson mine, we found ourselves with a sheep's-eye view of our first campsite.
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