Drink to me only with thine eyes

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A line from a love poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Ben Jonson. He suggests that lovers find each other's glances so intoxicating that they have no need to drink wine.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

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Example sentences from the Web for Drink to me only with thine eyes

In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
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She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.
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She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.
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He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
Powerful Congressman Writes About ‘Fleshy Breasts’|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

In Rwanda, as we watched the young fathers hold their babies, we saw a contented look in their eyes.
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Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.
Confidence|Henry James
Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
He turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no belief in the semblance of her tears.
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The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

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