cross-eye

Historical Examples of cross-eye

• Cross-eye can only be straightened by severing the muscles of the eye.

  Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World

  Clifton R. Wooldridge

• “A swollen-lunged patriot like your Don Rodrigo–of course he does, every cent,” and the cross-eye took on a jocular gleam.

  The Missourian

  Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

• Miss Musgrove's face was wholesome, and so kindly that not even a cross-eye had power to spoil it.

  Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

  Ruth McEnery Stuart

• This contraction of the muscle is termed stra-bis´mus, or cross-eye.

  A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

  Calvin Cutter

• A woman, that occasionally worked for me, had a disagreeable squint; she was known in Indian by the name of Sachb, "cross-eye."

  Life in the Backwoods

  Susanna Moodie