On the one hand, Isabel, a tranquil home, a happy and serene life; on the other hand all is darkness, darkness that even this eye cannot penetrate.
The lower part of the mountain lay calm and white in the starlight; and the guide's practised eye could discern all objects on the surface, at a considerable distance.
We had fallen in somewhere with a poor little waif of a boy, one easily to be recognized by the practiced eye of to-day as a good specimen of the street Arab.
As far as eye can range or feet can rove Jove is in all things, all things are in Jove.
Faint echoes of Vergil, it is true, occur frequently throughout the poem, but to the untrained eye Lucan is emphatically un-Vergilian.
In vain thou gazest from the Lycaean height, if any sound perchance may be borne from far to thine ear through the clouds, or thine eye have sight of the dust raised by our homeward march.
The picture is too crowded; he has not the unerring eye for the relevant or salient points of a scene.
All that dexterity can do he does; but he lacks the supreme gifts, the selective eye and the penetrating imagination of the great poet.
But to the eye they all formed portions of one huge circumference, whose center was a glowing point, the Sibley tent.
Northward the deposit stretched away to dunes of shifting sand, and in the south long mud flats lay, covered with traceries of sun cracks as far as the eye could reach.
Deep below to the left lay a vast valley, which presented to my astonished eye the unmistakeable evidences of art and culture.
The whole scene behind, before, and beside me far as the eye could reach, was brilliant with innumerable lamps.
The whole scene had charms for every sense--music form the birds, fragrance from the flowers, and varied beauty to the eye at every aspect.
With a keen eye for business, the General resolved to turn the marriage into a public show.
Even in a funeral coach the Grand Old Showman had aneye to business.
If he had dared to say that thing in my presence,' said Hawkwood, with that in his eye which caused more than one heart in that guilty assemblage to quake, 'blood would have flowed.
The entire room took on the picture of one great eye, and that eye centred on the party of three--as, in fact, it naturally would.
The whole category of superstitions about the evil eye arises from the belief that the glance of the eye is a concrete thing which strikes the person or object towards which it is directed like a dart.
Here it is clear that the glance of the eye is equivalent to real contact of some part of the stranger's body, which would pollute the food.
Tylor in Primitive Culture, [123] the breath, the shadow and the pupil of the eye were sometimes held to be or to represent the soul or spirit.
Now it seems clearly more easy for the eye to discriminate between opposing colours than to distinguish a number of individuals of the same species together.
The Dhalgars also made targets for archery practice from the hides of buffaloes; and the similar use of the hides of cattle in Europe survives in our phrase of the bull's eye for the centre of the target.
The theory that the injury is caused through the malice or envy of the person casting the evil eye seems to be derivative and explanatory.
I felt apprehensive that I was personally interested in this dialogue, and sought Mr. Murdstone's eye as it lighted on mine.
Every boy was there, but every boy was afraid to speak; so Squeers glared along the lines to assure himself; and every eye drooped, and every head cowered down, as he did so.
Though Mrs. Pipchin got very greasy outside over this dish, it didn't seem to lubricate her internally at all; for she was as fierce as ever, and the hard gray eye knew no softening.
Smike glanced round, and his eye rested for an instant on Nicholas, as if he had expected him to intercede; but his look was riveted on his desk.
The eye he had was unquestionably useful, but decidedly not ornamental: being of a greenish gray, and in shape resembling the fanlight of a street door.
There was a very merry twinkle in his eye as he went on with this banter.
He had been on the border land that divides the world from the realm of dreams; but through the wavering senses of his eye and ear, he was sensible of the faintest stir among the leaves, of a shadow moving near him.
She pulled her rein, but her eye flashed and she grasped the butt of her pistol.
I think I do, mon chef," and there was a knowing twinkle in the eye of the ugly scoundrel.
His eye was dark as night, but it revealed an immense range of expression; a capacity for great tenderness, and passion without bound.
As for Annette, her quick eye at once showed her how the situation stood: her lover, his hands bound, a black cap over his eyes, a coffin beside him.
His face was deathly pale, but his eye was steadfast and his step firm.
She said nothing, but there was gratitude enough in her eye to reward one for the most daring risk that man ever ran.
Most of them sleep; and presently there will not be an open eye among the braves.
But the diabolical vengeance which he had seen in the tyrant's eye undermined all hope.
A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision.
At that moment a tall, middle-aged man came into the room, and Lord John's roving eye fell upon him.
Aunt Mary turned on her niece an opaque eye that saw nothing beyond the owner's views.
As we were going swiftly down the side of one of the hills, I saw out of the corner of my eye the President taking a header into the snow.
His motives are so simple and direct that he finds a straight and easy course where another man, whose eye is less single, would flounder and hesitate.
Throughout the trip I found his interest in bird life very keen, and his eye and ear remarkably quick.
He had a twinkle in his eye as he said: "Didn't expect to see me here?
As he shook hands, his jaw was set fast and his eye was burning.
The glint in his eye impressed the other and he yielded.
There was nothing very tangible about the article; but the general tone was critical, and to Keith's eye unfriendly.
His eye gave a flash and then became as calm and cold as usual.
His eye rested for a moment on Keith as the servant indicated him, and then swept about the room; and with little more than a nod to Keith he passed him by and entered the waiting-room.
His eye swept over the room and then visited, in that casual way it had, some one in the corner across the room.
He had a quizzical twinkle in hiseye as it rested on the younger man's face.
It's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth with me.
Her eye lighted up as it rested on the alert, vigorous figure and fresh, manly, eager face.
But up-town he still held on-held on with a steady eye and stony face that showed a nerve worthy of a better man.
She was a beautiful walker, and as she moved slowly down the long dining-room as smoothly as a piece of perfect machinery, every eye was upon her.
Call it instinct, what you will, her hand was stayed even before her physical eye was caught and held by a blot darker still than the night, over to her right, farthest from the spring.
He may have the evil eye all right, but he's mine, bad eye and all; and what is mine, I will have.
There is no one "with a true eye and a faithful hand" but can do good work in watching the heavens.
Lord Rosse's telescope possesses a nominal power of 6,000--that is, it shows the moon as if viewed with the naked eye at a distance of forty miles.
In a small part of one night stars can now be got to register themselves more numerously and more accurately than by the eye and hand of the most skilled observer in the course of a year.
It was observed in Europe after three days, became just discernible by the naked eye at the end of July, and brightened consistently up to its perihelion passage, August 22, when it was still about fifty million miles from the sun.
View, for instance, the 19th cluster of my 6th class, and afterwards cast your eye on this cloudy star, and the result will be no less decisive than that of the naturalist we have alluded to.
For ever invisible to the unaided eye of man, a sister-globe to our earth was shown to circulate, in perpetual frozen exile, at thirty times its distance from the sun.
Their constitution usually betrays itself to the eye by their blue or greenish colour; while those yielding a continuous spectrum are of a dull white.
The weather was superb; above the Rocky Mountains the sky was of such purity as to permit the detection of Jupiter's satellites with the naked eye on several successive nights.
Harding's "Celestial Atlas," designed for the special purpose of facilitating asteroidal research, was the first systematic attempt to represent to the eye the telescopic aspect of the heavens.
The coronal extensions, perceptible with the naked eye to a distance of more than 3° from the sun, appeared barely one-third of that length on the best negatives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
