ox-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ox-eyed
Example Sentences
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Let me add here that I heard Fannie Bloomfield play the little sonata, wrongfully called facile, when she was a tiny, ox-eyed girl of six or seven.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
Under the hill, through the iron weeds, And ox-eyed daisies and milkweeds, leads The path forgotten of all but one.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
The latter are similar to the English ox-eyed daisy, a favorite flower with the French, also with Gertrude, who often pinned a bunch on May Ingram.
From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton
Pink and white clover, with roses, bluebells, ox-eyed daisies, black-eyed Susans, wild forgetmenots, violets.
From The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin
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 William Reed Huntington
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