Example Sentences

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He was a slim man, with a short brown beard and small, gimlety blue eyes.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

I did not turn to look at him but all the while I felt his gimlety eyes digging into my brain.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry

Only his gimlety, hungry eyes were the same.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John