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He ate the oats, but with retroverted eye watched her.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

The epidermoid papillæ are of a nature similar to those retroverted prominences so remarkable on the tongue of the cat; as well as in the lion, and some other animals.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

The state of happiness so exalted that it became almost holiness, in which he had been that very night, flung him to lower depths when it was retroverted.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

A view of the interior 687 of the sub-pallial chamber, as seen when the mantle-skirt is retroverted and the observer faces in the direction indicated by the reference line passing from e in fig.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Thus absorbed was I in thought When there came to me the echo Of a sigh half heard, for half To its owner retroverted.

From The Wonder-Working Magician by MacCarthy, Denis Florence