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Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had them all: cat’s-eyes, aggies, dearies, milkies, steelies, glassies, onionskins.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

“Why, of course, the young lady who is considered the reigning beauty here,” remarked Natalia Dimitrievna, rubbing her hands and looking hard at Zina with those cat's-eyes of hers.

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Friday forenoon, May 5.—I don't have to gaze at my cat's-eyes to kill time any more.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen

I desired to inform her that I disliked her, but one can never do those things; and, anxious to learn what was the matter with the cat's-eyes, I spoke amiably and politely to her.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen