ox-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ox-eyed
Example Sentences
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She gazed on him like an ox-eyed Juno; you know her way.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
He calls Homer, especially, "a tattler, who is incessantly repeating the same things in the same idle ridiculous epithets,--the swift-footed Achilles, the ox-eyed Juno, far-darting Apollo."
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
No modern poet of standing would venture, for instance, to employ identical epithets to the extent that Homer does, making Aurora "rosy-fingered" every time she appears upon the scene, and Juno as invariably "ox-eyed."
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
Large eyes were the fashion, as may be readily judged from the many pictures of ox-eyed maids which have been preserved.
From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby
If they hurried they would have first choice of the good claims close about the discovery; if they lagged Sully and his ox-eyed partner would overtake them, and beyond that it was unpleasant to conjecture.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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