eyne
- plural of eye.
Example Sentences
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He rent the sheet upon her face,115 A little aboon her chin; With lily white cheek, and lemin' eyne, She lookt and laugh'd to him.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Compare Shakespeare: "Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
Is it mine eyne, or Valentino’s praise, Hanmer.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George
He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne: Nor all the gods beside Dare longer there abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
While he, perhaps, with larger eyne, Was pleased, instead of vexed, at seeing Some little petulance in mine, And loved me all the more, for being; Not too divine.
From Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
