gimlet eye

They eye the door anxiously, convinced that at any moment, a Pakistani or Iranian intelligence officer will come barging in.

Nervous fans can keep a vigilant eye on it via a webcam hosted on the town website that offers 24-hour goat viewing.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized, and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.

As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.

The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.